

The trial of the woman accused of his murder, Kamila Ahmad, had been due to open on Tuesday (June 21) but was adjourned until March 6, 2023, due to complications after barristers specialising in criminal law voted to go on strike in a row over legal aid funding. Tai O’Donnell, 19, was killed in his flat on Alpha Road, Croydon, on March 3, 2021, after receiving a number of stab wounds to his thighs. Because salads can be quite boring, can’t they? But I’m getting much more adventurous with my dressings, and if you’ve got a good salad you can add anything to it.The family of a “beautiful, kind-hearted” teenager stabbed to death must now wait an extra nine months after a trial was vacated due to lawyers going on strike. It’s not expensive, the atmosphere is lovely and you can take the kids and stay there all night. It does a very small menu and it changes the theme every week. The Deli in my hometown, Sutton Coldfield. So I’ll get a few tins in and pour it in a posh glass so it looks real. It doesn’t really taste like alcohol, does it? And M&S does a great one in a can called a passion fruit martini and it’s bloody lovely. I very rarely drink alcohol, but if I do I’ll go for a pornstar martini. My go-to order is chicken pathia with saag paneer, cauliflower bhaji, rice, and papadoms with all the dips. When we had to make madeleines, and some people were like, “What the fuck are they?” I thought: “Oh, I know what one of those is. And that’s what I did on Bake Off: I scraped through. It may not be brilliant, but I can get by.


What I think I’m good at is taking direction. I always think I’m average at whatever I try to do. We’ve all got them in our kitchens, don’t pretend you haven’t.īake Off painted a very good picture of my skill level. Why shouldn’t you? It’s not a dirty word. So there was this big debate about what you can cook in the microwave. They cooked it perfectly: it was the chef’s little tip. And, the other day, someone on the show cooked asparagus in the microwave. I’ve picked up certain things from Cooking With the Stars. But he thinks it’s highly amusing, he just laughs at me. He said: “Shall I order for us all?” And I was like: “Umm, err, I should probably tell you, I don’t eat fish.” And it was at the Seafood Restaurant. We went for lunch in Cornwall last summer with Jack Stein. Now I can’t do anything with a shell or that’s looking at me. When I was a kid, it was as disgusting as brussels sprouts. I blame my mum, because when we were little, she would get roe slices and fry them in a pan and make us eat it.

If my kids ask, “Please can we bake?”, I think, “I don’t want to, because I’ll be left doing it and you’ll piss off and come back to lick the bowl at the end.” Then my mum brain kicks in and I think: “Oh, this is what you’re meant to do with your kids.” So I do it. And I remember the girl I lived with asked me: “Do you not eat salad?” I used to eat toasted sandwiches or I’d buy frozen chicken burgers and put them in a bun. I’d obviously watched my mum at home so I kind of knew in principle, but I was 17 and I couldn’t be arsed, quite frankly. When I moved to London to work as a model, I was 17 and couldn’t cook.
