Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
The chef and TV presenter Tom Kerridge made his name with his Buckinghamshire pub The Hand and Flowers, which he opened with his wife in 2005. It is the only British pub with two Michelin stars. Tom began working in restaurant kitchens at the age of 18 and was quickly hooked by the world he found, with its adrenalin rushes, constant pressures and camaraderie. More recently his weight loss made headlines. He shed 12 stone after deciding to make radical changes to his life as he reached 40.
Looking back, he now says,"I don’t regret a single minute of it, but I do feel massively uncomfortable thinking of that person – and every now and then, I miss that guy, I miss the chaos, I miss the fun. And I regret that I can’t ever do that just once, because I can’t, I know I can’t be that person."Tom chooses Proof by the band I Am Kloot:"It’s very special, it relates to alcohol, it relates to a slightly dysfunctional relationship with it, with other people.
"Swimming is very good because you become isolated," he adds."No one can talk to you, your phone doesn’t ring. You’re on your own."After joining a youth theatre group, Tom was offered small parts in TV dramas. He played a borstal boy in an episode of Miss Marple, hanging out with Joan Hickson."Then I filmed two lots of kids TV shows for ITV, where in both of them I played a school bully and then London’s Burning was the last thing I did," he recalls.
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