S5 E4: Jamie Demetriou, actor

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Grace’s living room gets a professional appraisal this week from none other than Jamie Demetriou. Best known as the bumbling titular estate agent of Stath Lets Flats and long-toothed lover of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, Jamie’s arrived fresh off the Barbie set armed with his favourite comfort snacks. He and Grace talk about his teenage indie band, growing up in his dad’s greasy spoon and the dangers of dipping a McCoy’s. And, of course, all the comfort foods he turns to when nobody’s looking

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:08.0	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.
0:14.0	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most
0:24.0	is often not snacked, it cobbled together when you curled upon a sofa.
0:29.0	Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:44.0	Hello friends, you find me in my kitchen.
0:47.0	It's a gorgeous day. Some blasted through the window.
0:50.0	I am fresh from my weightlifting class. I am achy.
0:55.0	I'm a little bit sweaty if I'm honest.
0:57.0	And boy, I am hungry.
0:59.0	Even the endorphins I am maxing out on cannot quell a frenzy I am in because
1:05.0	there is a cult hero on his way over here as we speak.
1:10.0	I've got time for a little snack.
1:12.0	I'm having one of my favourite things ever.
1:17.0	A little tin of cold pepper pig spaghetti shapes.
1:29.0	And one of my favourite things.
1:31.0	The sauce plings to the pepper pigs far better than it just hoops.
1:36.0	I will stand by this.
1:39.0	The bell is about to go.
1:42.0	And on my doorstep will be actor and screenwriter Jamie Dimitrio.
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