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Tom Kerridge

217 replies

PinataHeeHaw · 20/04/2025 14:43

AIBU to think he's bloody sexy? He's lovely looking and seems to be so nice personality wise too. He can cook! He's certainly making my Sunday afternoon nicer.

OP posts:
mumofoneAlonebutokay · 20/04/2025 18:42

Calliopespa · 20/04/2025 18:18

Oh golly what does that mean??! 😳

Just that he has the energy of a man with a big dick tbh 😄🤭

Strong, the group leader, a man who gets things done

JifNtGif · 20/04/2025 18:52

PowderRoom · 20/04/2025 15:49

I think he seems nice, but he wouldn’t strike me as attractive, particularly. There’s something of the oversized garden gnome about him, somehow? Mind you, I’m struggling to think of a TV chef I find in any way attractive. Not Jamie ‘Bish Bash Bosh’ Oliver, not Gordon ‘Angry Potato Face’ Ramsay, not Nigel ‘Feathery Stroky’ Slater, not Michel ‘Ooh la la’ Roux, whose Frenchness-performed-for-UK-viewers is a bit unconvincing, not Rick ‘Cornwall is mine’ Stein.

Nigel Slater is even more smug than Tom. He's smugger than a smug fox what used to be Professor of Smug at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Smug Planning.

This advert made me want to scoop up my eyeballs and serve them on a bed of home grown truffle covered smug.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15ZyZ58qej/

NeilDiamondsBlowDry · 20/04/2025 19:00

@TheRealHousewife he liked her because she was a broccoli

SparklyBrickViper · 20/04/2025 19:01

Freddy Bird.

Another with a twinkle in his eye and would know how to mix a negroni.

NeilDiamondsBlowDry · 20/04/2025 19:03

@JifNtGif yep! They’re just recipes Nigel not ‘Feasts’ HFW says ‘feast’ as well in that silly voice of his. It’s so twee and ‘Famous Five’

augustusglupe · 20/04/2025 19:03

AThousandPiecesInAPuzzle · 20/04/2025 14:45

nope
overweight alcoholics do nought for me

Same. His weight yo yo’s too, he must have that much loose skin.

JifNtGif · 20/04/2025 19:05

NeilDiamondsBlowDry · 20/04/2025 19:03

@JifNtGif yep! They’re just recipes Nigel not ‘Feasts’ HFW says ‘feast’ as well in that silly voice of his. It’s so twee and ‘Famous Five’

I don't know what it is about that advert but literally every word is irritating. 😂
Even the beginning "....And here it is".
No one was asking Nigel, you just sat down on my picnic table while I was having pint.

NeilDiamondsBlowDry · 20/04/2025 19:08

@JifNtGif

i hear you - what a twerp

JifNtGif · 20/04/2025 19:09

augustusglupe · 20/04/2025 19:03

Same. His weight yo yo’s too, he must have that much loose skin.

He actually uses a lot of that loose extra skin as crackling at The Hand and Flowers. Scores it up and it fluffs up beautifully with boiling oil. Real snap to it. He's only got a year or so of portions left now though.

Calliopespa · 20/04/2025 19:10

JifNtGif · 20/04/2025 19:05

I don't know what it is about that advert but literally every word is irritating. 😂
Even the beginning "....And here it is".
No one was asking Nigel, you just sat down on my picnic table while I was having pint.

Ironically I think the poor guy was trying to sound humble.

IBelieveinSomething · 20/04/2025 19:24

JifNtGif · 20/04/2025 18:30

These are some big accusations with v little back up! River cottage will be fuming !

I think they went bust anyway.

IBelieveinSomething · 20/04/2025 19:25

IBelieveinSomething · 20/04/2025 19:24

I think they went bust anyway.

I definitely don't find him sexy anyway.

cocoloco23 · 20/04/2025 19:25

IBloodyLoveMyBlanket · 20/04/2025 15:29

Really? You're entirely unaware of his TV work and his recipe books? Literally the only thing you know about him is the prices he charges for his food?

I’m entirely unaware of his tv work or recipe
books. It IS possible.

FishPie2 · 20/04/2025 19:26

SwedishEdith · 20/04/2025 17:37

Sexy female chefs - she's not strictly a chef - but Nisha Katona is the kind of woman you wish you could be. Confident, big laugh and seemingly lovely.

I love Nisha Katona and met her a few weeks ago at Mowgli in Bold Street, Liverpool when she popped in whilst me and my friend were eating there. If you want to know who she is look on ITVX for Nitash Katonas Home Kitchen.
OK not a trained chef but knows loads about food via family upbrining, was a Barrister but went to her first love which is food and now has about 20 restaurants.

SavageTomato · 20/04/2025 19:27

I marked him down as a cunt many years ago. When he did a deliberately provocative stance on pubs. He basically said fuck them if they don't do restaurant food, then they should sink. Totally self serving piece of shit.

Mydahliasareshit · 20/04/2025 19:35

Toelp · 20/04/2025 16:29

It’s Raymond blanc for me, I think it’s the accent and his passion, he could do filthy things to me and cook amazing food for me after 😂

Yes, you just know Raymond would have it all planned out, and be funny and off the chart filthy. A night to remember from start to finish.

Tom Kerridge no thanks but I'm sure he's a pleasant chap.

BlackStrayCat · 20/04/2025 19:43

Tom has always seemed nice to me.

Michael O[Hare
Nikolas Ekstedt (?)

All night long.

Marcus and Matt T obvs.

Biffbaff · 20/04/2025 19:52

I cannot forgive him for "Creme de LE creme", which is what he always said, when that isn't at all correct in any way. Couldn't even watch that show just for that reason. Get in la poubelle!

BatchCookBabe · 20/04/2025 20:09

SwedishEdith · 20/04/2025 17:37

Sexy female chefs - she's not strictly a chef - but Nisha Katona is the kind of woman you wish you could be. Confident, big laugh and seemingly lovely.

Gosh yeah, she is gorgeous isn't she? 😍

NoSoupForU · 20/04/2025 20:12

CharlotteCChapel · 20/04/2025 14:48

He's lost a lot of weight. However, I hate his attitude towards his customers. Baked potato £20 small posh potato filled with everyday ingredients but a cheffy ham on top. He could have used local ingredients, it would have been cheaper. We worked out one of the ciders he suggests matching his dessert to had over a 100% mark up.

And yet you can go and have a set lunch in his 2 Michelin star pub for £55 or his 1 Michelin star place for £15.

So it's quite disingenuous to claim everything is overpriced as it plainly just isn't. He pays his staff properly. And you know you don't have to eat or drink there, yeah?!

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 20/04/2025 20:15

Inspired by this thread I'm now watching anthony bourdain go to Colombia 🙌

Haveyoubrushedyourteeth · 20/04/2025 20:26

Oh my goodness yes! I absolutely hear you OP though I've never dared admit it before.
I can't put my finger on why exactly but I think he's lovely.

NoSoupForU · 20/04/2025 20:27

Simonjt · 20/04/2025 18:14

Tom keep women and fat people out of the kitchen Kerridge, no, he doesn’t appeal at all, he also either isn’t very bright, or he thinks people will magically forget the things he has said.

I’m not sure I’ve ever found a chef attractive.

Such an odd thing to say, given the head chef at The Coach is a woman, and she was head chef previously at the Bull & Bear under his stewardship too.

NoSoupForU · 20/04/2025 20:29

The sexiest male chef is Matt Ryle anyway. Don't think he does tv or anything but his Instagram is addictive.

Doitrightnow · 20/04/2025 20:44

Not sexy to me, but his venison madras recipe is delicious.