Food Junkies - Kerryann Dunlop

London Live is my new favourite channel. It shows lots of Spaced, and also lots of shows where random people from London hang out and talk about stuff and explore the capital. Also because I met some of the stars of Drag Queens of London the other week and they were very nice, although I haven't actually watched it yet but I'm sure when I do it will appear here. Anyway.

Food Junkies is a nice fast cut, fast talking food and drink show about, you've guessed it, London. Kerryann is an down to earth gunner and sometimes she wishes Arsene Wenger was her dad. She was on one of those Jamie Oliver kitchen programs or something, and now she has a youtube celebrityship. Actually, the whole thing that I saw on TV this morning seems to be already on her channel here. She was rustling up some very tasty looking fried chicken ('the Colonel don't have nothing on me') when she came out with this nugget. And it's worth remembering, because just cos it's unpretentious and delicious, doesn't mean your humble grub has to be also f*cking ugly. Put it in a little pile on a board and sprinkle over some spring onions and lime you lazy reverse snobs.

Kimberley

I almost didn't sketch this piece of Real TV Wisdom, for starters, the GBBO editors are OBSESSED with this soundbite, cos, you know, it sounds a bit rude, and Kimberley looks all sparkly and happy when she says it. So I already saw it two weeks ago and was actually a bit confused to see it in the actual episode this week. Also, the close up angle means you can't see the top of Kimberley's hair. And she was star baker like Ruby and it's not like a thing that I want to draw the star baker. 

But, obviously, i drew it anyway.  Because, you know, it sounds a bit rude, but is very wise. What truly governs our happiness more than our physical comfort, and satisfactory pie? 

Ruby Tandoh

Just as the wedding season is drawing to a close, the Great British Bake Off season is begining! Hooray and Hurrah and Bally Ho or whatever it is us British say at such times. This is a little off of the Real TV Wisdom rules, being a statement in the first person, but as I'm already a little bit in love with this week's star baker Ruby (I'm not alone according to a quick google) I wanted to draw her and extol the wisdom of this statement, which ran deep with me. Succeeding, not in what you are EXPECTED to succeed in, or even what you are EXPECTED not to, not in what SOCIETY (I'm getting carried away with the caps today sorry) deems success, but in what you find most fun and fulfilling, that's the real icing on the cake isn't it? I could be Sue Perkins.

Raymond Blanc

Ah I love cookery television. I know that Pharrell and Mr Thicke have been trying to tell me this real wisdom all summer, but somehow when coming from such a respectable frenchman it carries more weight. Whether applied to the mixing of cordon bleu techniques, the vagaries of appropriate nudity, or the consideration of whether drawing television chefs is a good use of my time, so many lines are indeed blurred. 

And that is, indeed, life. 

John Torode

can't fault your logic John, or your 'this is self evident' face.

Irina