Former radio host Nick Grimshaw and Michelin chef Angela Hartnett are making waves with the return of their podcast, Dish.
However whereas they each have plenty of fame — and now spend their days speaking to celebrities over a home-cooked meal for the podcast sequence — they’ve nonetheless been the topic of a little bit of misidentification.
Metro.co.uk spoke to Nick and Angela forward of the launch of the third sequence of Dish to debate what’s to return this season, Nick’s transition from radio to podcasting, and why home-cooked meals places folks comfy.
The pair are good pals, which comes throughout within the podcast — a lot in order that Angela says folks typically suppose “we have identified one another for years.”
“We met some time in the past, however we have solely actually identified one another since final Might, so persons are shocked by that. They suppose we have been greatest pals since we have been 10 or one thing, so it really works in that sense,” she says.
It is this forwards and backwards that folks love in regards to the podcast, and it comes out in the course of the interview – for instance, when Angela remembers Nick being mistaken for EastEnders actor Ross Kemp as soon as.
Groaning, Nick explains, “Somebody requested me, ‘Are you Ross Kemp?’ I believe he might have meant Roman Kemp, since we have been on the radio on the time.’
Angela, too, had fairly just a few identification adjustments and nonetheless appeared miffed about the entire thing, as she remembers, “I used to be launched as Angela Lansbury as soon as.
‘[She is] this 90-year-old girl – I assumed, “Are you drunk or simply silly?”
The pair have sat down with a bunch of celebrities to share their tales with them, the dialog being interrupted by Angela presenting a mouth-watering meal, which Nick believes helps folks open up extra.
“It looks like folks haven’t got their limitations that prime, it looks like they’re simply coming to eat with us,” he says. “You are clearly happier having a meal ready by Angela in entrance of you!”
When requested who their favourite visitors have been up to now, Nick eagerly lists names: “Stanley Tucci, Rylan, Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond,” whereas Angela goes straight for Vernon Kay.
“We have had nice visitors, everybody may be very receptive,” she provides.
They each giggle as they bear in mind probably the most shocking story a visitor has shared – Mary Berry said that she had been to Ibiza’s iconic Pacha nightclub to “exit with all her pals of their 70s.”
Angela teases Nick by stating she is aware of his – and he admits she’s proper when she mentions Stanley Tucci.
Angela will get nervous round ‘all of them’ – as a result of ‘you do not know how folks will react. Some are very talkative, some might not wish to say something. However we have had good visitors and I believe folks wish to come and speak.’
Followers have welcomed the podcast with open arms, and Nick revealed that day-after-day throughout their eight weeks off, he was inundated with messages from followers asking, “WHERE’S NEW DISH?”
“Folks missed it when it was out, which was signal, and I missed it too,” he stated.
Nick made a reputation for himself as a radio DJ and admits it was a “bizarre change” to modify to podcasting.
“I wished to do radio since I used to be little or no. It was type of a bizarre change, leaving and never doing the radio day-after-day. With all the things I went via, I assumed, “that is good for the radio!” after which I wasn’t on the radio.
“However I really like this as a result of I can do all my favourite factor about radio – hear folks’s tales, have a chat, however with the added bonus of a plate of meals.”
Angela and Nick have a bucket listing of stars they’d prefer to see on the present sooner or later – so in the event that they get their manner, hold an eye fixed out for Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman in an upcoming sequence.
They’d additionally prefer to take Dish “on the street” sooner or later, maybe as early as the following sequence of the present.
Dish is accessible to hear on all main audio streaming providers; the primary episode of sequence 3 is out now.
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