'Watching myself would be weird'

James Martin talks to Lauren Taylor about his Saturday Morning show

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James Martin

James Martin may have been on TV since the mid-Nineties, but that doesn't mean he wants to see it back.

"I've never watched myself in 34 years of doing it. I can't watch it, I just can't - it's really weird," says the 53-year-old.

The chef made his name on the likes of Ready Steady Cook and The Big Breakfast, before taking over hosting BBC One's Saturday Kitchen in 2006 - filmed live - and moving to ITV's James Martin's Saturday Morning in 2017.

"I was always taught, if you're going to watch yourself, you'll change. I don't really want to do that."

Instead, the feedback tends to come from his mum. "Usually my mum phones me up and says, 'That shirt looks s*** - you can't wear that again'. That's usually the comment I get on Saturday Morning - 'What the bloody hell are you wearing that shirt for?' That'll be the one, after all these years.