She explained: “And then my lovely friend, the chef Giancarlo Caldesi, I was having a chat with him last week and I said, ‘Right, Giancarlo, I’m going to have to, for probably the first time in my life, actually go on some sort of diet.’
“And he said, ‘But darling remember, just cut down your portions.’
“And of course that is what it is and I’ve found that in lockdown, because you’re more relaxed and I’m not rushing off somewhere, I’m not gobbling my food down like I normally am and then rushing off, I’m sitting, relaxing, eating and then you can eat more.”
The former magician’s assistant then asked her listeners if they could sympathise with her experience.
