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Vick Hope: My mum’s teaching me to cook Nigerian food during lockdown



Presenter Vick Hope has revealed she’s been “elevating her culinary skills” during lockdown – by learning how to cook Nigerian food from her mother.

The star, who hosted the Capital Breakfast radio show for three years and has worked on shows such as The Voice, said she has been batch-cooking hearty stews to pass the time in isolation.

The 30-year-old, whose mother is Nigerian and father English, said: “Mum has been teaching me how to cook Nigerian food. Like rice and stew and plantain. So I have been elevating my culinary skills. A lot of them are big, pot-based dishes and a little goes a long way. So lots of batch cooking.”


However, the star – who was born in Newcastle but now lives in east London, said staying fit and healthy throughout the pandemic had been precarious.

“I feel like we have reached the period where everyone has an exercise injury,” she said. “I have been trying to stay active and healthy and run but its turned out to be quite counterproductive as I have now done my ankle in. So I am taking it easy.”

Hope, who appeared on the 2018 series of Strictly Come Dancing and was paired with Graziano Di Prima, said the lockdown had helped her see the benefits of social media, which in the past had made her feel “lonely.”

She said: “We have more virtual friends than ever, and that has been – in the most part – difficult because it makes us pretty lonely in real life. Now it is amazing. A positive of this experience is that we do have connections and have so many people online. I am talking to so many more people. Usually I don’t speak to people for months but now I am talking to people every night.”

Hope was speaking as she was announced as a new Amnesty International Ambassador, joining the likes of Olivia Colman, Deborah Francis- White and Juliet Stevenson who already work with the charity.

Hope, who first starting fundraising for Amnesty as a teenager at school, said she felt it was important to use her public status to “give back.”

She added: “Giving back is really important. My mother always instilled in me that you have to help others. We have a responsibility to help people who are less fortunate. I think the pandemic has given people the time to think about doing good and being helpful. So I hope this will be a new chapter where we are all a bit more helpful.”



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