Top chef and her family caught up in road ‘nightmare’
THE family involved in the crash with Ant McPartlin are a top chef and her restaurateur husband who say they have been through a ‘nightmare’.
Faheem Vanoo and his wife, chef Shilpa Dandekar, 36, were with their four-year-old daughter Amaira when their Mini was in a collision with the TV presenter’s car. The crash left the trio ‘shocked and dazed’ – but thankfully without any serious injuries.
‘The whole experience has just been a nightmare,’ Mr Vanoo told Mail Online. ‘It is not something that we ever expected, but we are just grateful that no-one was hurt. It has been a terrible experience and it feels like we are coming out of a nightmare. It has left us all a bit shaken up.’
Mr Vanoo, 41, explained that he had been asked not to speak directly about the accident by police. he added: ‘I cannot talk about certain things, but the main thing is that we are all safe. My daughter and wife are okay and were not injured.’
Asked if he had been contacted by McPartlin, he replied: ‘I cannot talk about that.’
After the crash, Amaira was taken to Hospital, by her parents for a check-up but was not kept in overnight for any treatment. Mr Vanoo said: ‘She is fine. We are all OK.’
Mr Vanoo, from Mumbai, runs an Indian restaurant in Fulham with his wife. She trained in India before moving to the UK. She was Raymond Blanc’s head chef at London’s first Brasserie Blanc. Earlier this year, sher was named as one of ‘five Indian women shaking up London’s food scene’.