Southend Pier to feature in TV show next week (From Southend Standard)
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Southend Pier to feature in TV show next week
5:00pm Wednesday 28th November 2012 in Echo News By David Trayner
Jonathan Ross filming on Southend Pier
CHANNEL Four has finally revealed what celebrities including Gary Barlow, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross have been up to on Southend Pier for Jamie Oliver’s new show.
Tune in to Jamie and Jimmy’s Food Fight Club, much of which was filmed in the former Pier Head Cafe on Southend Pier over the past few months, from next Thursday to see Hollywood A-lister Ms Paltrow stuffing her cheeks with marshmallows, camp funnyman Mr Carr playing “fig roll roulette” and an Essex cheese complete with spray tan and a vajazzle.
Jamie, who was brought up in Clavering and claims to have been conceived under the pier, said: “When we were nippers, British food was all pop tarts, boil in the bag and carveries.
“But since then we’ve undergone a food revolution and it's time the world woke up to the fact that our grub deserves its place on the world stage.”
The Naked Chef and farmer friend Jimmy Doherty will pitch the best of British food against its French, German, Belgian and Italian equivalents in the four-part series.
But the show also features their celebrity friends helping cook up a storm – and get messy – in the redecorated Southend cafe.
In the first episode Mr Carr shows the boys how to play “fig roll roulette”, in which one biscuit contains a Dorset Naga chilli pepper, which is 400 times stronger than Tabasco sauce.
Jamie and Jimmy also make an Essex goats cheese, complete with spray tan and vajazzle-style decoration using saffron and chilli, to compete against French fromage.
Ms Paltrow, who tried Adventure Island rollercoaster Rage when she was in town, demonstrates her own food fight challenge, entitled “chubby bunnies” in the second show.
She challenges Jamie and Jimmy to stuff their cheeks with as many marshmallows as possible while still being able to say “chubby bunnies”.
The Echo revealed last month that Take That singer Gary Barlow got covered in chips and milkshake after Jamie and Jimmy – dressed as Smurfs – took him on Rage for the show.
Jonathan Ross was also due to be filmed on the ride, but rolled up in his black limousine two hours late for filming.
Comments(18)
alimac69
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10:04am Thu 29 Nov 12
ccd
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11:07am Thu 29 Nov 12
Really? Decorating food is now considered vajazzling or is that just bait for Google to notice the 'sleb article?
Eric Whim
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11:16am Thu 29 Nov 12
CHANNEL Four has finally revealed what celebrities
surely 'which celebrities' is better English?
Eric Whim
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11:23am Thu 29 Nov 12
ccd wrote:maybe it's a fish paste sandwich
"vajazzle-style decoration using saffron and chilli"
Really? Decorating food is now considered vajazzling or is that just bait for Google to notice the 'sleb article?
SARFENDMAN
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1:49pm Thu 29 Nov 12
Shoebury_Cyclist
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2:08pm Thu 29 Nov 12
SARFENDMAN wrote:That's because the series has already been recorded over the summer.
"SOUTHEN PIER TO FEATURE IN TV SHOW NEXT WEEK" and if you actually go there next week in reality, you'll find the usual "sweet nuffin" actually going on as per usual.
Olivia2847
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3:05pm Thu 29 Nov 12
Shoebury_Cyclist wrote:I should have apologised to you before you removed my quote! But it is a stupid story which made me angry ......
SARFENDMAN wrote:That's because the series has already been recorded over the summer.
"SOUTHEN PIER TO FEATURE IN TV SHOW NEXT WEEK" and if you actually go there next week in reality, you'll find the usual "sweet nuffin" actually going on as per usual.
Olivia2847
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3:30pm Thu 29 Nov 12
Eric Whim wrote:No - ' what ' celebrities as in why they so important or not as the case may be ...
CHANNEL Four has finally revealed what celebrities
surely 'which celebrities' is better English?
HK9597
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4:21pm Thu 29 Nov 12
Olivia2847 wrote:We are in Essex so it is definitely 'what'.
Eric Whim wrote:No - ' what ' celebrities as in why they so important or not as the case may be ...
CHANNEL Four has finally revealed what celebrities
surely 'which celebrities' is better English?
An example 'you know them fags what we bought'
Olivia2847
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6:01pm Thu 29 Nov 12
HK9597 wrote:But are they really celebrities? And so which ones are not what ones are!
Olivia2847 wrote:We are in Essex so it is definitely 'what'.
Eric Whim wrote:No - ' what ' celebrities as in why they so important or not as the case may be ...
CHANNEL Four has finally revealed what celebrities
surely 'which celebrities' is better English?
An example 'you know them fags what we bought'
maddriver
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7:13pm Thu 29 Nov 12
Eric Whim wrote:Read it again and read it properly. The correct word is 'what' as in 'what those celebrities got up to.
CHANNEL Four has finally revealed what celebrities
surely 'which celebrities' is better English?
SARFENDMAN
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9:27pm Thu 29 Nov 12
Olivia2847 wrote:Missing the point. I meant there is nothing going on ANYWHERE! Well, besides an odd fisherman, lone walker, train ride and visiting seagull.
Shoebury_Cyclist wrote:I should have apologised to you before you removed my quote! But it is a stupid story which made me angry ......SARFENDMAN wrote: "SOUTHEN PIER TO FEATURE IN TV SHOW NEXT WEEK" and if you actually go there next week in reality, you'll find the usual "sweet nuffin" actually going on as per usual.That's because the series has already been recorded over the summer.
Olivia2847
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9:50pm Thu 29 Nov 12
SARFENDMAN wrote:Happy with that actually ....
Olivia2847 wrote:Missing the point. I meant there is nothing going on ANYWHERE! Well, besides an odd fisherman, lone walker, train ride and visiting seagull.
Shoebury_Cyclist wrote:I should have apologised to you before you removed my quote! But it is a stupid story which made me angry ......SARFENDMAN wrote: "SOUTHEN PIER TO FEATURE IN TV SHOW NEXT WEEK" and if you actually go there next week in reality, you'll find the usual "sweet nuffin" actually going on as per usual.That's because the series has already been recorded over the summer.
Doolaly
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12:41am Fri 30 Nov 12
Vajazzle: adorn the pubic area (of a woman) with crystals, glitter, or other decoration.
On a Cheese?
I want to vomit.
Trust that Talentless mockney cook to lower the tone of Southend.
(Now that's an achievement!)
Trainman
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2:19pm Fri 30 Nov 12
binmandom
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3:08pm Fri 30 Nov 12
Spyglass
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6:03pm Sun 2 Dec 12
i'm going to watch, got to be worth a laugh
x
Olivia2847 says...
7:14pm Wed 28 Nov 12