Great British Menu star Andi Oliver is renowned for her flair with food - from authoring cookbooks to presenting TV shows on the subject - but behind the scenes, many had no idea that she once battled a potentially life-threatening eating disorder.
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Don t try to deny it, girls. You know that any mundane activity becomes stonkingly sexy and macho when performed by a middle-aged man.
Bicycling ceases to be a pastime for children and retired ladies, when a Lycra-clad male in his virile mid-40s is astride the pedals.
The pavements are no longer the preserve of ordinary walkers, now that they can be a racetrack for angrily perspiring blokes in training for a half-marathon.
But of all the ways a gent in his prime can assert his alpha maleness, there s nothing more heroic than cookery.
Not normal, dinner-in-a-hurry cookery, of course. Don t expect a real man to fix fishfingers and beans for the kids on a school night. The mere suggestion is an insult to his testosterone.