WHAT LEFT JAMES SHELL-SHOCKED?

HE might have spent a decade testing omelettes on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen but former host James Martin can’t actually stand what they’re made from.

“I spent 10 years eating blooming omelettes but I don’t like eggs,” says the Yorkshireman, 45, of a section on the show that sees guest chefs compete to make the quickest and most edible omelette. “Yet every Saturday morning I’d have to eat the things.

“If I have a fry-up, I don’t eat eggs. If I had a full English and you said how do you want your eggs, I’d say I don’t want eggs.” James’s loathing clearly extends to related products too: “I can’t eat mayonnaise – it tastes like rubbish! I’ll at least try everything. But mayonnaise, horrific!”