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Ruby Tandoh criticises celebrity cooks for 'suspicious silence' over election | Ruby Tandoh criticises celebrity cooks for 'suspicious silence' over election |
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Ruby Tandoh, a former contestant on The Great British Bake Off, has criticised fellow celebrity cooks for staying quiet about the general election. | |
Tandoh, who was a runner-up in the show in 2013 and has since established herself as a cook and a commentator on food and mental health issues, chastised Jamie Oliver, Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, the Hairy Bikers and Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood for not speaking out about politics. | |
lots of big names staying suspiciously silent today despite their entire fortune/following being built on a ~kind and inclusive~ ethos | lots of big names staying suspiciously silent today despite their entire fortune/following being built on a ~kind and inclusive~ ethos |
She directed a series of tweets at the accounts of the cooks, telling Slater “don’t leave us hanging pls”, asking Lawson to “please speak up”, urging the Hairy Bikers to “step forward” and calling Oliver a “prick”. | |
Tandoh said she also wanted to direct criticism at Hollywood but he had blocked her on Twitter. She added: “Imagine being silent on this incredibly important election just cos you don’t wanna lose out on a couple of tories buying your cookbook.” | |
imagine being silent on this incredibly important election just cos you don't wanna lose out on a couple of tories buying your cookbook | imagine being silent on this incredibly important election just cos you don't wanna lose out on a couple of tories buying your cookbook |
Although Oliver has not come out in support of Labour, he has condemned the prime minister, Theresa May, for pledging to scrap free school lunches if her party wins the general election, describing the move as “shortsighted”. | Although Oliver has not come out in support of Labour, he has condemned the prime minister, Theresa May, for pledging to scrap free school lunches if her party wins the general election, describing the move as “shortsighted”. |
“It’s awful, it’s awful. [May] will regret it,” Oliver told Channel 4. “We know the diseases that the NHS are overtly paying for now and being punished for and crucified now on cost, which is largely obesity, type 2 diabetes and diet-related diseases.” | |
However, he said he was “apolitical” and would work with Labour and the Conservatives on the issue of children’s health. | |
Tandoh has previously criticised fellow cooks over pandering to food fads and diets as a way to sell books. | |
In April, she described Tom Kerridge’s carb-cutting cookbook as “total bollocks” and said cooks such as Oliver, the Hairy Bikers and Lorraine Pascale were “swinging from ‘comfort food’ to ‘superfood’ and back again whenever the price is right”. |
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