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Seduced by Marco? Not me

18th November 2006 by Helena 1 Comment  

Another day, another kiss and tell about some celebrity chef. Today I read the tearful saga of a waitress Marco Pierre White apparently wanted to leave his wife for. She now feels totally let down as the rogue has not in fact left his wife and she has lost her job. Quelle surprise.

I have to admit that I nearly fell under Marco’s spell many years ago. I met him when I was about 19 in London. He was a flamboyant, loud and entertaining man. By chance we ended up in Oxford together; me to study for my A Levels and Marco to work for the Manoir aux Quat’Saisons. As we knew no one else we would hang out together. He told me dramatic tales from the kitchen at the Manoir. On my birthday he showed up with a beautifully cooked dinner involving some kind of fowl. Sadly I was a vegetarian in those days. I remember him storming into the Oxford College of Further Education refectory wearing a full-length black coat shrieking across the whole room: “Daaaarling, you look DIVINE – but what are you doing in this dump?”

I didn’t give in to Marco’s charms, and rather like the weepy waitress featured in today’s Mail I found that made him even more keen. But we stayed just friends, although we’re no longer in touch. My point is this though – there was a time when chefs would just shut up and cook. Now it seems they’re on a par with pop stars. Why? Why do we care what Gordon Ramsey does to the extent that we have whole TV shows about him? Although I’m delighted to hear my old friend still hasn’t lost his capacity to charm, he won’t be the first chef to seduce a waitress and he certainly won’t be the last. Why are we so interested?

Get back to the kitchen with you, I’m so over celebrity chefs. But next time Marco, cook me something I want to eat.


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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

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More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

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So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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