James Acaster: ‘During the second series, we started getting invited to restaurants.’ Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer Washing up is in the family genes. My grandad used to claim he was the Northern Ireland junior champion of washing up. And I believed that for a long time, because someone made him a certificate and he had it on the wall. It took me until I was about 21 to realise it was a joke. My favourite things Transworld has snapped up a new book by award-winning comedian, "Off Menu" podcast host and "Great British Menu" judge Ed Gamble.

Gamble and Jamison first met when mutual friends set them up to go on a date in 2010. Gamble later proposed to Jamison whilst on holiday in Japan in October 2018. In Glutton, the comedian explores his "life-long passion for food". The synopsis said: "With his trademark humour, he shares the standout moments from a life often guided by his insatiable appetite. From the tyranny of ‘children’s food’ to his ‘fat teenage years’, to the trials of being a diabetic with a sweet tooth and his own mishaps in the kitchen, he delivers a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of a delightful obsession."a b Richardson, Jay (11 July 2023). "Ed Gamble pilots culinary Taskmaster spin-off Foodmaster". British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 17 July 2023. To be fair, you say it at the beginning and it always gets completely dropped throughout the episode …” That same month, BCG revealed that Horne is also piloting the game show People Watching with the channel, and last month it revealed that Channel 4 has recommissioned The Horne Section TV Show for a second series. Why is food such a revealing conversation subject? “It’s the ultimate universal topic,” says Gamble. “But people in the public eye rarely talk about it. Often, you’ll be eating something that you think is completely normal, and then you’ll speak to someone else, and they’ll go, ‘What are you talking about? That’s absolutely insane.’ It’s so intertwined with personalities. Also, some people have just got ridiculous views on food.”

Manning, Charlotte. "Richard Osman: Pointless star's replacements confirmed by BBC". Metro News . Retrieved 27 May 2022.Recording Off Menu is restricted to the rare days every month when the two of them and the Great Benito are free. Sometimes they’ll record multiple episodes in a day. “It means that if we’ve only got two days in a month where we can both do it, we miss out on some massive guests,” says Gamble, but he won’t say who they’ve turned down, “because we might have them on eventually.” When we meet, they’re preparing to record their 200th episode. For the 100th, Claudia Winkleman took over as host, while Acaster and Gamble chose their dream menus. For the bicentenary, which was released in August, they did the same, with Rylan as the guest. They’ve eaten at so many restaurants that they were well equipped to make their choices all over again. But fair enough: events like this are as much communion as comedy. To encounter in-person the people we spend happy hours with each week as, essentially, voices in our head – well, that can be a thrill, as I’m sure it was here for the man who told us all, from the sky-high balcony of the Albert Hall, about his granny’s “wet meat”, or the man whom Acaster berated for expressing his preference for a cheeseboard over pudding. A meandering live event Off Menu may be, but I ended it well-stuffed with good humour and in hearty agreement with Elis James’s closing sentiment. “Food,” he rhapsodised: “it’s fantastic!” Ed Gamble is set to put on his apron and baking gear for tonight's Great Celebrity Bake Off Stand Up to Cancer. A non-broadcast taster of Foodmaster is being recorded next week, with the stand-up and Great British Menu judge joined by five celebrity contestants in a competition in which they must use their imagination, ingenuity and lateral thinking to showcase "culinary creativity" rather than cooking skills, as they try to answer the question: "Food is great, but how can it be improved?"

Celebrity Hunted sees two more stars captured". Virgin Radio. 19 April 2023 . Retrieved 3 June 2023. Gamble says they’re protective of what they’ve achieved so far. “What can happen in these situationsis that someone has something really good in a podcast, and then they think they should level up, so a TV show or something like that … and it can often just destroy what you’ve built.”From a young age, Ed Gamble's immaculate bibs and extremely dirty nappies hinted at his capacious appetite. Before he could walk, Ed already knew that he preferred poached salmon to puree, that celery was a calorie-sapping waste of time, and that mashed potatoes should be made with lashings of butter. He began his comedy career whilst studying philosophy at Durham University. Gamble would perform with the Durham Revue and went on to be a finalist in the 2007 Chortle Student Comedy Awards. He says: "Somehow I have found time in between meals to write a book about food. Eating is my one true love (apologies, wife) and I'm very excited that I get to share that passion with you, the money spending general public." To reach this entrance, enter the Royal Festival Hall via the Southbank Centre Square Doors. Take the JCB Glass Lift to Level 2 and exit to the Riverside Terrace. Turn right to find the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance.

James Acaster and Ed Gamble take part in Celebrity Hunted". Chortle. 12 July 2022 . Retrieved 3 June 2023. Gamble performing a live show of Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster at Royal Albert Hall in October 2023 Acaster says: "I did a gig with Ed in a Hawaiian themed bar in Wales. Ed was reading poetry as a comedy poet character.In Glutton, Gamble explores his life-long passion for food. With his trademark humour, he shares the standout moments from a life often guided by his insatiable appetite. From the tyranny of 'children's food' to his 'fat teenage years', to the trials of being a diabetic with a sweet tooth and his own mishaps in the kitchen, he delivers a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of a delightful obsession." Ed Gamble is piloting a food-related Taskmaster spin-off, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. Whenever he visits somewhere new, Gamble plans where he’s going to eat after heavy research, and he inspired Acaster to do the same when he was on tour or working away from home. “It became a favourite subject to talk about, like, I’m working in Newcastle, what do you eat when you’re here?” says Acaster. Gamble says they’re both quite obsessive by nature. “If we decide we like something, we tend to hyper focus on it, and we both happened to do that with food at the same time,” he says.