FAMOUS FANS

Footballer Peter Crouch claims to have invented the show with his team-mates when they’d cook for each other after training. His claims made the news and even briefly forced the change of the official

Wikipedia page to credit him as Show Creator. Tom Hardy (right) has admitted he is obsessed with the programme and uses it for inspiration: ‘It’s great people-watching. I’ll steal characters from

because they’re real people. I take something from everybody.’

Meryl Streep is also a fan and watches it when she is in the UK. She told

‘ is fabulous.’