If Ready Steady Cook was not your highest ranking cooking show for teatime TV, then can you even call yourself British?
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The TV cooking competition was the original source of food inspiration. It saw chefs compete in front of a live studio audience as they attempted to create something flavourful, simple but above all affordable, cooking their meals from a £5 mystery grocery bag.
Ainsley Harriott, 68, revealed to The Sun that talks are under way and that both he and resident chef James Martin are certainly keen for the project.
“Fingers crossed they go for it. It’s a unique format and there’s nothing else on TV quite like it – it’s so easy for people to follow. Me and James would do it, along with a raft of new chefs.”
The Jeremy Kyle Show may have called it quits, but if this is a viable addition to our daytime TV schedules then we really can’t complain!