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PIERS Morgan has slammed MasterChef judge Jay Rayner as a "pompous a**e". The TV presenter, 56, didn't mince his words in a surprise Twitter rant today.

Feast Is Feast With Big Zuu | GlobalRemi Burgz (Radio 1Xtra) | BBC SoundsGoing Home With Vick and Jordan (Radio 1) | BBC SoundsWild Things: Siegfried and Roy | Apple TV+/At Will MediaIf you, like me, are in search of some joy during the longest January ever recorded, may I recommend the new food podcast Feast Is Feast, from Big Zuu? Zuu, real name Zuhair Hassan, “aka Zig Buu, aka Fat Mo Salah” (he’s a Liverpool fan), is a grime artist and rapper with a cooking show on Dave, Big Eats, where he makes meals for comedians. Big Eats is also the name of a track Zuu made with his cousin AJ Tracey. On this “poddy”, he’s louder, warmer, sillier: “You say random things! It’s a poddy!” He’s a complete delight.

ITV’s new talent show Walk The Line, alongside Craig David, Alesha Dixon and Dawn French.To say that the Patience hitmaker kept himself busy despite the world crisis would clearly be an understatement.In a recent interview with journalist Jay Rayner, Gary insisted that broadcasters should focus their attention on bringing back more talent shows to our TV screens.He recalled a conversation with show bosses, who told him that programmes centred around music don’t work on telly anymore.“We are in an age now, unfortunately, when I sit with broadcasters and they all say, 'Music does not work on TV anymore’.“I never know what they mean by that.”Gary replaced Simon Cowell as the head judge on The X Factor when the latter headed stateside to kick off the short-lived US version on FOX.The National Television Awards winner took part in three seasons of the formerly biggest talent show on TV, serving as a judge from 2011 to 2013.However, in July 2021, ITV announced that the show had been cancelled after 17 years, having seen a considerable decline in ratings year-to-year.“The sad thing about music on TV nowadays is that we are all sort of forced into a show which has nothing to do with music and they throw us on for two minutes and that is it,” Gary added.“So when things like Walk The Line comes along I say, 'Thank God there is a window still.'”Just over three million viewers watched the premiere episode of Walk The Line before it took a sharp dive to just 2.1 million, which is just a fraction of what shows such as I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and Britain’s Got Talent accumulate for the broadcaster.During its first season run, viewers took to social media stressing they didn’t understand the show’s concept, prompting many

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X Factor boss Simon Cowell.The Take That star also talked about his new show Walk The Line. On the Out to Lunch podcast, he told Jay Rayner about his relationship with Simon. The hitmaker explained that he didn’t know where reports about issues between him and Simon came from. Jay asked Gary if there ever was “really anything”, in regards to bad blood between the two. Gary replied, saying: "I've known Simon since 1991... “[I've] never had much issue with Simon. As usual, I think it possibly all started around X Factor. “There was always this overhanging shadow with X Factor that if you were on there, there was Simon [in the background] trying to get rid of people.

Food critic Jay Rayner has heaped praise on an historic Salford pub recently brought back to life.

cancel culture” in comedy.The comedian addressed the subject and the controversy that surrounds it in the latest episode of the Out To Lunch podcast with food critic Jay Rayner.Jimmy candidly confessed that his stage persona often gives people the wrong impression of his personality.He also discussed his previous conversation around panic attacks, which he once said he suffers from every morning when he wakes up.Jay then asked whether that was still happening, to which Jimmy affirmed.He added: “I wake up with a bit of a start.“People deal with harder things...“I think my stage persona would lead you to believe that this guy doesn't give a f**k cause you're doing one liners on stage, you're in a certain mode when you're doing that and it's a

James Martin's Saturday Morning epsiode.The Wanted hitmaker took to Instagram to brand one of the chef's dishes "disgusting".The 33-year-old certainly didn't hold back as he shared a clip of the meal in question with his 265,000 followers.His upload saw James, 49, rustling up some scrambled eggs for guest Jay Rayner, 55.However, Tom appeared incensed at the "wet"-looking offering.He claimed he "wouldn't eat" what the acclaimed chef had whipped up."I ain't no chef, but I mean that scrambled egg looks a bit wet to me," the father-of-two started."That ain't no scramble egg, bruv! Nah, way too wet!"Tom went on in his video: "Look at that! It's disgusting."Not that I'm a chef, but I wouldn't eat that."James' aforementioned recipe formed part of

Jack Whitehall has discussed some amusing comments reportedly made by famous actress Eva Longoria on food critic Jay Rayner's Out To Lunch podcast.The 33-year-old claimed the A-lister was completely unaware that Pizza Express was a popular Italian chain restaurant in the UK and found it amusing when she lauded its “incredible” Italian food. Eva, 46, is said to have made the comments to Jack during their time filming BBC comedy series Decline and Fall in 2016.The actress was trying to find food that rivalled the quality she is used to when she stumbled across a Cardiff branch of the Pizza Express chain, which she believed to be a quaint “little Italian” restaurant. According to the actor, Eva went on to tell Jack that up until that point,

HE’S the quirky chef who broke the internet when a video of him flamboyantly sprinkling salt down his forearm over a hunk of meat went viral. Now Nusret Gokce, 38, known to his 39.5million Instagram followers as Salt Bae, has fans falling over themselves to lap up his £850 steaks and £100 burgers, which are wrapped in edible 24-carat gold leaf.

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This Morning for using the same name of his podcast for Nigel Havers new segment on the breakfast show.Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield launched the new section of the show on Monday's episode named Out to Lunch with Nigel Havers.The new feature on ITV shows the British actor taking out a different famous friend each time to lunch.Nigel, 69, said: “In this series, I’ll be sitting down for lunch in some of London’s most glamorous locations, and having a chinwag and some delicious food.

This Morning today for launching a new segment that uses the same name as his popular podcast.The food critic slammed the morning show on Twitter to his 325,000 followers.It comes after Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby announced the programme's new Out to Lunch segment, with Nigel Havers, 69.The new addition to the show sees the actor meeting a famous friend in a glamorous London restaurant.Jay was outraged, as his podcast is also called Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner, and he claimed This Morning's Out to Lunch follows a similar concept to his show.The food critic vented this frustration on Twitter.He said: "One for the producers of @thismorning (and @Schofe/ @hollywills)."There’s nowt unique about interviewing people over food."But out

as a stellar line up appeared. But one of the contestants was slaughtered by viewers from 5pm.

food reviewer has slated a pop-up restaurant for having "abysmal" food and "inexplicable" prices.Restaurant expert Jay Rayner wrote a review of the Polo Lounge on the rooftop of London’s Dorchester Hotel for The Guardian over the weekend.

Handforth Parish Council Zoom meeting is launching a hilarious podcast. Every episode of Jackie Weaver Has The Authority will see the 63-year-old joined by TV and comedy stars to answer listeners’ questions.The first episode on May 18 will feature Strictly’s Anton Du Beke, food critic Jay Rayner and BBC star Jeremy Vine.Others joining Jackie include film funnyman Omid Djalili, plus stand-ups Matt Forde, Tom Allen, Nigel Ng and Rosie Jones.

BBC show was dedicated to late food critic Charlie Campion.The television star and food journalist sadly passed away in December last year at the age of 69.He became a familiar face to MasterChef fans as a regular critic on the cookery series.Semi-finalists were challenged to impress critics Jimi Famurewa, Jay Rayner and Grace Dent during the latest episode.At the end of the show, a message flashed on screen paying tribute to Charles.It featured a picture of him alongside the message: “In memory of Charles Campion, food critic, 1951 – 2020."MasterChef's Twitter account also shared a tribute to the late star.The tweet read: "Tonight’s Critics Table semi-final is dedicated to the late great food critic Charles Campion who sadly passed away at

James May, 56, today launches his new cooking series Oh Cook! on Amazon Prime and has revealed that he found it difficult making the programme at times.

Sir Cliff Richard announces NEW album for his 80th birthday“Sarah sat there having the food that they do, it’s fairly simple food and small portions.“So I had to chew tea for two days and had to do this liver detox.“I’m not sure your listeners are going to want to hear this.”He continued: “She wanted to try a [health] clinic for a week and I did it.

Top Gear presenter shared details of his recent holiday abroad with his girlfriend Sarah Frater.The Grand Tour star revealed he got "ill" when the couple stayed at a health farm in Germany which left him with a "belting headache" last month.The car-enthusiast cheekily joked that he was put on a "starvation diet" at the clinic which in his own words were admittedly full of "middle-aged and fairly wealthy" individuals.James spoke candidly in a podcast about his trip abroad which he seemingly appeared not too keen about.Speaking with Jay Rayner, the journalist and food critic pushed for James to tuck into his lunch but the Grand Tour host appeared rather hesitant."Ok, how much of this am I supposed to eat?" the former Top Gear presenter

Minnie Driver has described the night she was nominated for an Oscar as like “walking into the Roman Colosseum”.