PEOPLE THIS WEEK!

Your catch-up service for those celebrities and well-known personalities to have inhabited interview chairs for the media over the past seven days.

NAME: Diana Rigg INTERVIEWED BY: Nigel Farndale, Sunday Telegraph PROMOTING: No products, but believes in a bottle of wine before bed.

She's fossilised in TV history as Emma Peel, though she only did the role for two years out of a long career. Deconstructing her iconic Avenger look, Ms Rigg, 70, reveals it took 45 nightmarish minutes to get the leather catsuit off. And the pre-Lycra jersey catsuits suffered constant baggy knees. Fame should have been more fun, she reflects. Not in a naughty way, but "Why didn't I have more confidence? Why didn't I know I was pretty good looking?" She thinks it was her Yorkshire upbringing that knocked any vanity out of her. Her experience of fame sounds quaint and unsophisticated: hiding in public toilets from fans and getting her mum to write back to letters - adopting that Yorkshire style for the ruder ones: "Those aren't very nice thoughts. And besides, my daughter is too old for you. I suggest you take a run around the block."

NAME: James McAvoy INTERVIEWED BY: Gabrielle Donnelly, Daily Mail. WeekendPROMOTING: Wanted The Mail makes much of James being "disappointingly short" and pale - but women across the country can only see his fanciability.

"I'm not 6'4" and I don't have huge pectoral muscles that open doors three feet ahead of the rest of me. It's nice that they're letting someone a bit unconventional make movies." This "someone unconventional" lives in the same flat he did before, and drives a Nissan Micra. All very low key for a Hollywood star, but he considers himself privileged. Coming from Drumchapel in Glasgow, he says "I used to have a bit of a working class chip on my shoulder, because the area I come from is so rough. But then I went to Uganda to make The Last King Of Scotland and I looked around at the poverty there, and I realised that in relative world terms, I'm actually super duper, upper class, through the roof posh."

NAME: Alexa Chung INTERVIEWED BY: Eva Wiseman, Observer Woman PROMOTING: Gok's Fashion Fix.

It's important you know about her because the Observer has her down as the number one cool person in the Who's Cool Now? Top 50. Even they can't explain how her cool remains intact when her career has gone from C4's edgy show Popworld to presenting some TV turkeys: Get A Grip and Vanity Lair.
Dating the Arctic Monkeys' lead singer must help a bit, and the fash mags love her style but it's her sharp attitude to female fame that gets her the number one spot: "I don't want to look sexy in photographs. I think it's an easy option. I'm sick of girls pushing their boobs up in MySpace photographs. I hate the way women want to be 'hot' all time. And I'm on youth TV so I want to be a different kind of role model. One who's properly covered up.'"

NAME: Mark Ronson INTERVIEWED BY: Alan Jackson, Times magazine PROMOTING: No products, just slickness and family values.

The uber music producer is such the man about town that during the interview he delivers his sister a Chanel handbag that Lily Allen had reserved for him. The suit he's wearing to the Glamour Awards (Man of the Year, obviously) is "almost in homage" to Dean Martin. It's a life that Heat readers can only dream of, says The Times. With his looks and success he must indulge in a love life that would also impress Heat's readership? "Let's just say there's enough chaos in my life and I prefer being by myself or being with just one person," he says. Albeit the "just one person" is model Daisy Lowe, how come he is so sensible? His mum, he says. She made him work summer jobs and come home at 9.30pm when his friends were out till midnight. He's grateful now for not turning out like an idiot, but the teenage Mark didn't sound the same way: "She's such a hard-arse! She sucks!"

NAME: Sharleen Spiteri INTERVIEWED BY: Sheryl Garratt, Telegraph magazine PROMOTING: Solo album, Melody

We can't all write hits, but Sharleen describes a feeling when songwriting comes together that we do know: "It's like when you were a kid and and you used to run up school corridors: that slight fear of getting caught, but excitement at the same time. It's like you almost don't want to say it to anyone." She also didn't want to say to Texas, her band of 22 years, quite how she felt after splitting from the father of her child after 10 years: "Because they're my mates… I didn't want them to see my weaknesses." So she made this record alone. One friend she can let loose with is comedian Peter Kay: who she divulges recently led a conga round her kitchen to Mr Blue Sky. And she took his advice to include the track Day Tripping after she'd decided to leave it off the album. He was laid out on her settee with a cup of tea: "Are you deaf? That's never a B-side!"

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