Too many celebrity cooks on TV spoil the schedules

I’M sure many readers would agree with Frederick Forsyth’s comments in respect of TV programmers constantly bombarding viewers with cookery programmes and also the blatant misuse of the word “celebrity” (“All these cooking shows have left me boiling over”, September 9).

Like Frederick Forsyth, I would guess that very few viewers actually head to the kitchen to try to emulate the recipe they have just seen demonstrated and will pick up the phone to order a meal instead.

As for the word “celebrity” well “Snap!”, Frederick. I too often sit there and ask, “Who the hell is it?”

In my day “celebrities” were the likes of Frank Sinatra, Liz Taylor or Marilyn Monroe whose fame lasted a lifetime. They were not just flash in the pan nonentities.

Jean Norfolk, Knottingley, W Yorks