[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids... it's pretty constant.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag!

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

Jack, my 16 year old, was in knots a couple of months back, studying for Latin. I said, "Mate, you've got no interest in Latin. You don't want to go into it after, so drop it." He said, "No, I can't. I'm going to get bullied at school because all my mates are in there." There's a prime example of why no one cooks at school. You're studying Latin, you've got no interest.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

I like finding talent. That's what really turns me on, I suppose.