Phil Vickery gets ‘guilt feeling’ seeing family in Cornwall where ex Fern Britton lives

express.co.uk:

This Morning star took a trip down memory lane to one of the most defining moments that told him he had to step back from the chef industry.The thorny incident - when the festive season was in full spring 20 years earlier - had left him fuming and storming out of the restaurant , leaving his sous chef to pacify ten furious customers."It's a quarter to five on Christmas Day.

I was covered in s***," he recalled of the moment he was first told that the diners weren't happy.One of the party stood up and yelled: "We are ten f***ing vegetarians!

There's no f***ing menu!"Pointing out that the incident had happened "before [vegetarianism] was cool", and that he hadn't thought to cater for it, he requested: "Sir, please don't swear, it's Christmas Day.'"The angry diner wasn't backing down, instead firing back: "I'll swear if I wanna swear.""No didn't even come out my mouth.

I said to him: 'If you'd let me know before [that you needed a vegetarian menu]...' [and he said] 'I shouldn't need to let you f***ing know!'" Phil recounted to Kaye."I literally went downstairs, took my apron off and said 'I'm going home.