Saint Delia she wasn’t
DURING a live TV demo, Fanny dropped a chicken on the floor. Swooping to retrieve it, she looked at the camera and smiled: ‘Remember, you are alone in the kitchen — no one will ever know.’
SHE said her grandfather gave her a love of wine. ‘My wine was pale pink at five, deep pink at eight and often straight from the bottle by the time I went to school.’
FANNY kept a drawerful of amphetamines and sleeping pills by her bed which she called her ‘hundreds and thousands’.
ON JOHNNIE: ‘He is the only person who can handle me. We are never apart. The only things that separate us are rugby and the lavatory.’
ENCOURAGING early viewers who were used to rationing to indulge themselves at Christmas, Fanny trilled: ‘Everyone is entitled to a piece of really good cake at least once a year.’
FANNY refused to dress down in the kitchen. ‘Cooking is a clean and creative art, not a grubby chore.’