People this week

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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: Ken LivingstoneINTERVIEWED BY: Carole Cadwalladr, the ObserverPROMOTING: Life after City Hall

It's not the besuited Red Ken we're used to (see above). The Observer's version of Ken is in an "off duty T-shirt", peeping out from the hollyhocks in his verdant garden, before going indoors to microwave some soup. Very domestic. He's a straight talker and yet he's ducked the usual rules and consequences of political scandal and popular celebrity culture. The big revelation during his campaign for mayor was that in addition to the two children he has with his current partner, he has had three more children with two other women, and kept quiet about them. Thousands of people in his neighbourhood knew about his first three children, he says, because they were no secret. Of all those in the community who saw Ken openly being a father to them over a 15-year period, nobody went to the press with the story, he says. "The vast majority of people, except for one person... respected privacy. It gives you a bit of confidence in humanity, doesn't it?" NAME: Patsy KensitINTERVIEWED BY: Jonathan Ross on Radio 2, Express SaturdayPLUGGING: Holby City and Who Do You Think You Are?

Startling thought: Patsy says her pension kicks in in nine years. Retirement must come earlier in showbiz than it does for civilians, but all the same the years since her debut in Absolute Beginners at 16 have surely fast forwarded a bit. On the radio with Wossy she's strictly British in the self-deprecation department. She presents herself as a middle-aged woman who's been working for at least 100 years and is permanently in pyjamas. Even though she's sporting six layers of false eyelashes due to interrupting a photoshoot for the radio show - she insists she started her day looking like Pauline Fowler. My cellulite begins at my ear lobes, she adds. She's amusing but it doesn't really do because in the print of the Saturday Express, you can see that Patsy is as buff as ever. She's still talking to them in terms of domestics though. On her Holby City cast mate Luke Roberts: "We are like a married couple without the sex. We have one argument a week, so it's just like a marriage. The rows last about 20 minutes."

NAME: Valerie SingletonINTERVIEWED BY: Peter Robertson, Mail on SundayPROMOTING: Her own heterosexuality

It's not really clear what gave Valerie Singleton the urge to give her sex life away in the media this week. For 30 years she has kept a restrained silence about the rumours she is a lesbian. However suddenly the mismatch between her story and her public reputation has become too much. Despite her Blue Peter and Radio 4 credentials, she really was quite wayward and she wants us to really know. So she's detailing for us the snog and roll around with Albert Finney, the "lovely" fling with Peter Purves, and sexual liaisons with a couple of attached colleagues. Does anyone else feel uncomfortable here? She never got it on with Joan Armatrading and that's because she's "always been the complete opposite of gay". And now she's popped the cork on her heterosexual private life, she can't stop - with stories of contraception and an accidental pregnancy which ended with a termination. Miss Singleton is currently exactly that, though optimistic about finding love. NAME: Bill GatesINTERVIEWED BY: Fiona Bruce, The Money Programme, BBC OnePLUGGING: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill Gates would surely leave an impression in an hour of TV wouldn't he? This is the Harvard drop-out founder of Microsoft, whose personal fortune is so mind-bendingly big, Fiona Bruce has to break his earnings down into a more comprehensible "$5m a day since 1975." Mr Gates is on the point of stepping down from Microsoft to see about distributing his $24bn of wealth through his charitable foundation. Those close to him say he didn't get started on the charity work before now because this is a man who gives it his all . Yet it's hard to escape the impression he leaves of a beige next-door neighbour. The most striking points about Mr Gates are how his voice has overtones of the Muppet Show - and how much better looking he has got with age, perhaps due to his specs getting smaller over the years. The interview took two years of negotiations and despite his historical impact on the world, even Fiona Bruce delicately concludes there is no sign of a particularly strong personality.