I am happy for them all: Angela Hartnett, Jason Atherton, Marcus Wareing, Mark Sargeant.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

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.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

How many chefs do we know that prefer cooking for chefs than they do customers, yet customers are returning repeatedly and it's the level of support that determines the level of success that restaurant will have.

The thing is, I can teach. I can teach bloody well. So few chefs have that level of generosity. I demand a lot, a f***ing hell of a lot, but I give a lot back.