Joanna Page confessed recently that she cooked her husband of 10 years, James Thornton, raw chicken and tinned tuna on spaghetti when they first met, so expectations for the Gavin & Stacey star's fate on ITV's Cooking With The Stars were slightly reserved it has to be confessed.
But the Swansea-born actress defied expectations on the brand new series hosted by Emma Willis and Tom Allen, which sees eight celebs and their chef tutors attempt to create the winning dish in a series of intense cooking battles. Joanna and her celeb chef Michael Caines made raviolo and butternut squash with crispy pancetta in a VT ahead of the studio battle in which she faced off with Aussie pop star Peter Andre.
Ahead of meeting Michael, Joanna said it was 'embarrassing' and that she was 'ashamed' of her lack of cooking skills which boiled down (pun intended) to making things from jars and opening pasta packets. Now, there's nothing wrong with that but this is a TV cooking show and Joanna did admit she was 'terrified' of cooking the dish without Michael on hand. To be honest, we were too.
