'WE JUST FILMED WITH KATE WINSLET AND WALTON GOGGINS... IT'S PINCH-ME STUFF'

Jesse Burgess and Will Warr have eaten social media alive with Topjaw, their wildly successful food and restaurant juggernaut - and after storming Hollywood, what's next?

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Topjaw aren't quite the same in real life, without the edits. The duo — presenter Jesse Burgess, producer Will Warr; both handsome, both well-spoken — are known for the waggish production on their 90-second food quiz videos with chefs and celebrities, in which they ask guests about their favourite pizza or curry, their must-eats, places they think are overrated. So when Grace Dent jokes that she likes to eat away from the riffraff, a snippet of Mozart plays. When Gordon Ramsay is rude, flames appear. When Ncuti Gatwa is pushed to make up his mind, the Who Wants to be a Millionaire's final answer synth blares. It’s pop art's crash-bang-kaboom for the social media generation.

As such, when Burgess describes the email that came in offering Marcus Wareing for interview and says, “My arsehole dilated, I was so excited”, one half expects screeching brakes, the face of a crying child to appear, a suggestive mud pit to flash into focus. What you don’t necessarily anticipate is a Henry Hoover wailing as an indifferent cleaner prepares the empty pub for the day.

Bathos or no bathos, the pair are reliably starry. Not in a grand, snobbish sense — Burgess is puppyish, demonstrative, keen to please; Warr knowing, considered, dry - but in that slightly detached from the real world sense.

“I've become really good friends with Ed, I went to Ynyshir with him,” says Burgess. “He didn’t really have anyone else to talk to about food and wine too much, so we've then bonded over basically a love of food and drink.”