One of the benefits of a habitual tendency to say yes to anything that will get me on television is the unexpected friendships that can bloom on the dancefloor, in the jungle or, in this case, in the MasterChef kitchen.
I was a contestant in 2016. Among the others was the England rugby international Neil Back, who had been part of the World Cup-winning squad of 2003 and could make a Russian oligarch’s close protection team look like the Cheeky Girls.
