CHEF Antony Worrall Thompson has achieved a first on television, albeit it’s not one he’s bragging about.
The former presenter of Saturday Kitchen, who lives in Playhatch, returned to the small screen by appearing on a celebrity edition of Pointless, the BBC 1 quiz show.
The 62-year-old joined forces with fellow chef Rustie Lee to be pitted against three other pairs of chefs including Jean-Christophe Novelli and Paul Rankin. Contestants are given a choice of questions and must pick the one they think has the most obscure answer. They score points based on how many people out of 100 knew the answer and the team with the fewest points wins.
AWT set a first on the show when he picked the answer that all 100 respondents had given. The subject was films with food in their titles and he chose Honey, I Shrunk The Kids.
Sadly, his fortunes failed to pick up from there and he was beaten to the £2,500 prize by Aaron Craze, of ITV’s Saturday Cookbook, and John Whaite, from the BBC’s Great British Bake Off.
It was Worrall Thompson’s first TV appearance since he was cautioned by police for shoplifting at Tesco in Henley last year.
Since he didn’t want to discuss it when I called him, we will have to wait and see whether a full-time comeback is on the cards.
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