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.

We launched it in the London branch - phenomenal sausages, incredible eggs, homemade baked beans, black pudding - and it's something I wanted to bring to Dubai.

They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

Another person tattooed my face on their calf. When they tense, the face moves! That is messed up.

Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.