Cooking Buddies review – Jamie Oliver’s son goes where his dad doesn’t dare
Yes he’s a nepo baby, but 13-year-old Buddy Oliver tackles something that would terrify most adult chefs: letting kids loose with sharp implements on camera
Great British Bake Off contestant Dawn Hollyoak dies aged 61
Baker competed on Channel 4 show in 2022, becoming sixth contestant to leave tent
Our unequal earth
‘Buy your back brace now’: The Bear sidesteps the grueling physical costs of restaurant work
TV review
Tom Kerridge Cooks Britain review – an empty, flavourless screensaver passing for television
Buddy Oliver! Tilly Ramsay! Welcome to the terrifying age of the nepo chef
June 2024
‘There is no Hairy Bikers without Dave’: Si King on TV, cooking and life without his best friend
Life on a plate
Comedian Allan Mustafa: ‘I love banh mi. I geek out on being able to eat history’
April 2024
Jam is not the problem for Meghan Markle
Meghan’s gone from royal upsetter to tradwife in three short years. Given what’s out there, you’d do the same
Gaby Hinsliff
TV review
Jamie’s Air Fryer Meals review – the din of barrel-scraping is deafening
The watcher
Jamie’s Air Fryer Meals: if it’s got a tiny convection oven in it, Channel 4 will commission it
MasterChef turns 20! The cookery competition just gets better and better
TV tonight
TV tonight: Gregg and John celebrate 20 years of MasterChef
March 2024
TV review
Andi Oliver’s Fabulous Feasts review – so hope-inducing it could restore your faith in Britain
This joyous show sees the TV chef overflowing with warmth and knowledge as she tours the UK to throw genuinely cool parties for deserving Brits. It’s utterly heartwarming
February 2024
Dave Myers: the TV chef who rose to fame as one half of the Hairy Bikers – video obituary
Best known as one half of the Hairy Bikers, TV chef Dave Myers has died at the age of 66 after a cancer diagnosis two years ago
‘Genuinely groundbreaking’: how the Hairy Bikers’ Dave Myers redefined masculinity on British TV
Sensitive, erudite, so warm it blew viewers away – alongside his colleague and great friend, Si King, the presenter made television a kinder, more open place
Hairy Bikers chef Dave Myers dies at 66
I recreated Gregg Wallace’s perfect Saturday. Let me tell you: nobody’s doing it like him
Rich Pelley
TV review
The Hairy Bikers Go West review – an absolutely magical return to the open road
January 2024
Brief letters
MasterChef review made me laugh my Pollocks off
Brief letters: Witty observations | Expensive TV to devour | Self-driving cars | Triggers for dementia | Hot cross buns are out
