With His New World Cup Food Series On The Horizon We Had A Chat With International Chef Ainsley Harriott MBE Before It All Kicks Off
The Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022 November 20 – December 18 Is The First World Cup To Take Place In The Arab World
Ainsley’s World Cup Flavours On ITV X, Including Lioness Jill Scott As A Guest, Starts A Month Before The Historical Tournament
And Leads Right Up To The Start of The World’s Biggest Football Competition.
It Also Starts During UK Black History Month & So Is Something of A Black History Month Special Programme
From Super Stardom & My World Kitchen, To The World of Football And World Cup Cuisine, He Is Cooking Up A Storm Around The World In His New TV Series As He Talks To A Mix of Footie Friends Enjoying A Sporty Combination of Food & Football In ‘Ainsley’s World Cup Flavours’
Hardwork, Dedication & Perserverance Means Ainsley Harriott MBE Is Now One of The Most Successful Chefs In The World. And As A Result He’s Done A Lot of International Travel.
In 2019 ITV Broadcast His Dream Series of A Lifetime “Ainsley’s Caribbean Kitchen”. We Recommend You Watch It As He Cooks His Way Around Different Caribbean Islands. He’s Literally In Chef’s Paradise (Available On ITV Hub).
The Man Must Be Blessed Because Now They Are About To Broadcast Another Series of A Lifetime Where He Gets To Indulge In Another of His Passions – Football!
From Saturday October 22nd 2022, On ITV – 11.40 am, ‘Ainsley’s World Cup Flavours’ Will Be The Field of Play For Various Famous Football Fans Over The Following 5 Weeks.
They’ll Be Sharing Stories of Football Forays, Favourite Football Matches, Fun Football Facts, And Fabulous Food For Football Fuel. With Food From All Around The World, It’s Official – The Culinary Countdown To The World Cup Starts Here.
In May 2022 TheOrator.Press (TO.P) Saw Ainsley In Action At The British Library As He Treated A Dedicated Audience To A Talk About His Career, Struggles Along The Way, And His Journey To The Top @ainsleyfoods
Following On From That, Further To His New Series Scheduled To Start On ITV Next Month (Saturday October 22 2022) We Caught Up With Him Again For A Pre-Series Interview.
It Was Edgy, Interesting And A Great Warm Up To His New World Cup Series. At 65 Ainsley’s Long Since Earnt The Right To Speak His Mind And We Gleaned Some Interesting Insights As We Spoke About Some Major Events Including The Lioness Success In The Euros In July, Passing of The Queen Shortly Afterwards And The Start of The World Cup And His New Food & Football Series Called Ainsley’s World Cup Flavours.
The Passing of The Queen Earlier This Month Has Seen An Historical Outpouring of Different Opinions, Emotions & Expressions Over The Last Few Weeks. And We We Talked About The Queen’s Passing. Amongst Other Things.
Without Doubt One of The Late Queen’s Favourite Events In The Social Calender Was Vistiting A Certain Famous Flower Show. This Year Ainsley Visited The Event Too. As He Is Apt To Do. However A Prickly Legal Issue Arose From What Appears To Be An Unfortunate Health & Safety Issue Befalling One of His Companions. We Had To Ask Him About It As It Became Big News And Was Out There In The Public Domain. However Subsequent Legal Proceedings Meant He Declined To Discuss The Case In Any Great Detail.
He Was However More Forthcoming When We Spoke Football. Women’s Football. Particularly The Lionesses Success At The Euros This Year. And His Own New Football Show. A Lack of Racial Diversity Was To Prove Disappointing, But We’re Hoping The Production Company Will Keep Things Moving Towards A More Reflective Future.
In Part Two Next Month We Also Look At How His Personality & Presenting Style Has Helped With Mental Health. And We Also Discussed The Other Sport He Loves – Namely Tennis. And His Hopes For Roger After “Retiring” And For Serena Whose Is “Evolving”.
So It Was Rather Like A Chat of Two Halfs. But As Ever With Ainsley, Along The Way There Were Some Laughs. And of Course Some Very Tasty Grub!
This Feature Piece Special Is A Long Read Literary Buffett. Take What You Want And Leave The Rest. Simply Select The Links You Like Best
Part One (September 2022) ~ Current Issue
Diversity Disappointment & Missed Opportunity For A World Cup Audience
Part Two (October 2022) ~ Next Month’s Issue
Ainsley’s Mental Health Tonic
Tennis Stars Serena & Roger
The Queen’s Passing
Chef Ainsley Harriott Hailed A Horticultural Hero
This Summer, In June 2022, At A Famous Flower Show, Ainsley Was Hailed A Hero After He Helped To Rescue A Lady Who Had Fallen Into One of The Ponds. So We Had To Ask Him About It.
It Was On Press Day And Ainsley Had An Invitation And So Was There Larger Than Life As Usual. Those Tickets Are One of The Hottest In Town During The Summer Season. And Press And People Were In Attendance.
Out of Nowhere Drama Ensued As A Lady Suffered An Unfortunate Sequence of Events And Found Herself In One of The Ponds, Soaking Wet And In Distress. Not Much More Can Be Said About That As A Legal Case Involving The Organisers Is Now In Progress.
What Was Not Reported In The First Instance Is That The Lady Concerned Was His Sister. His Older Sister Who Is A Very Proud And Dignified Woman, According To Her Younger Brother, Ainsley. Suffice To Say Ainsley Is Now 65.
“It Was Tough For Her” He Says.
“My Immediate Concern As Her Brother Was That She Was Alright So I Just Focused On Helping To Get Her Out.”
“A Medical Team Came And Put Her On A Trolley And Took Her To The Medical Centre. They Were Pretty Hot On That of Course Because The Queen Was Known To Be Attending That Day.”
On The Trolley She Said To Me “We Won’t Be On The Six O’Clock News Will We?”
I Said “Nobody Cares Sis.”
But People Were Concerned Once The Story Broke And He Started Getting Calls Asking If He Was Alright, Which of Course He Was. And It Was In Fact Soon All Over The News.
And He Tells That Knowing What A Proud And Dignified Woman His Older Sister Is He Was More Concerned About Her Clothes Being Clingy And Wet. So He Did His Family Duty And Went Shopping Down The Kings Road For A New Dress.
“Two Hundred Quid Later” He Says With His Famous Vivacious Laugh…
But In All Seriousness He Says He Can’t Talk About It Further Due To The Ensuing Court Case And It Was His Sister Who Decided To Pursue The Case, Not Him. Nonetheless In His Opinion (To Which He Is of Course Entitled), “It Was A Hazardous Area And Should Have Been Roped Off”.
In A Civil Case Such As This It Will Be A Judge Who Decides On Liability, Not A Jury (Who In Criminal Cases Decide Innocent or Guilty). It Certainly Won’t Be Ainsley. Just The Judge, The Lawyers & Due Court Process Will Determine The Outcome. And All Concerned Must Wait Patiently To See How The Sunsets On This One.
In The Meantime It’s Good To Know Chivalry Is Not Dead!
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