Tom Kerridge has revealed he never gets invited to dinner parties because people are too “intimidated to cook for him”.
But the Michelin-starred chef, 50, added that the events make his “toes curl” anyway because he associates them with “middle England”.
Speaking on the Desert Island Dishes podcast, Tom said: “I’m never invited because people don’t want to cook for a chef. They feel quite intimidated by it.
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“Dinner parties actually make my toes curl. It feels like everything about middle class and middle England that is everything that I haven’t come from.
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“Which is why I do restaurants, so people don’t have to do dinner parties – they can come out to eat.”
Tom also revealed he thinks lunches are better than dinners, to remove the “weird awkward bit” where hosts try and usher their guests home.
His dream line-up of guests includes Barack Obama, Jess Phillips MP, Brian Blessed and wife Beth.
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It comes after Tom opened up about booze addiction and says he turned to the bottle to help cope with pressures of trying to make it in the industry.
He said at the time: “My own ambition to become a top chef nearly came at an extremely high price.
“There were pressures I put on myself as a professional when I was trying to get my first Michelin star.
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“I was doing 18-hour days. It was being released every night by massively heavy drinking. Every day.
“You need that release and mine was alcohol and it was massive.” Tom quit booze at 39 because of the effect it was having on his health.”
The star, who turns 50 next week, added: “I recognised the behaviour was massively unhealthy and if I hadn’t stopped, I doubt I would have made 50.”
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