The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Someone sent me a picture of my name that was tattooed on their a***! The first thing I said was, the least you could have done was spell it properly!

How are these people deserving huge payouts for losing weight when they should have done it without the camera or without a team helping them? Then, six months later you go back and find out where they are, and they're in a worse state than they were in before they joined the f - ing show. Then they blame the producer.

We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

That's the problem. Anyone can go and buy a restaurant. I want to be at that f - ing dinner party where they say, "Hey, Bill, your food's great. You should buy yourself a restaurant." That's not right. Taking it less personally.

If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.