I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?

I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.

I quite like that jeopardy, those up-against-the-wall odds. I don't like it when it's over-comfortable, too easy, something that can be done in two or three weeks. I like a challenge.

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.