MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food is as important educationally as Math and English and it's important that we don't take it for granted.

[ Full English breakfast] it's what we grew up with! It is the one big treat that the kids get on the weekend - it's good family time.

From 16 to 26, no one really knows what they want to do for the rest of their life at that age. Latin's not f - ing one of them.

It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.