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I'm not a celebrity chef. I'm a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.

I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over - sometimes you'd just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you.

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.

I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!

'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.