S7, Ep4 How to Fail: Tom Kerridge

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, the podcast welcomes its first ever Michelin-starred chef. Yes...it's Tom Kerridge! And what a chef he is. He failed at school, but found his way in catering college after the death of his Dad. He climbed the ranks of the profession, working hard and partying harder. Professional success followed, at the same time as personal failure - the long hours triggered a drink problem and he became unhealthily overweight. Faced with his own mortality, he gave up alcohol and went on a fitness regime that resulted in his losing 11 stone. His transformation was so impressive that it inspired a series of bestselling books, the latest of which, Lose Weight and Get Fit, is out now.Tom joins me to talk about his failure at education, his failure in business, his alcoholism and the associated failure to live in the moment. We talk about living to the extremes, having an addictive all-or-nothing mindset, how you can work with your spouse in a stressful industry and stay married, what it means to fail in a high-pressure environment and how he once had ambitions to be a child actor because it meant he got to hang out with the girls from a local private school. What a lovely chap he is - I hope you enjoy! *The Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling book of the podcast, How To Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong is out now in paperback and available to buy here.*Lose Weight and Get Fit by Tom Kerridge is published by Bloomsbury Books and is available to buy here. *How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. We love hearing from you! To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com* Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabday Tom Kerridge @cheftomkerridge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:18.9	represents a broad cross-section of society. It's the home of unfiltered entertainment.
0:24.4	It's altogether different telling, made for you and happily for me because regular listeners
0:30.7	will know about my married at first sight Australia obsession. Currently on the TV, I cannot
0:37.0	get enough of it. I watch it every single night. I really miss it when it's not on on
0:41.1	the Sunday. And for anyone who doesn't know, it follows Australian singles who tie the
0:46.1	knot with partners selected for them by relationship experts, including male shilling, former
0:51.6	How to Fail podcast guest. They meet for the first time on their wedding day and we watch
0:57.1	to find out whether there will be perfect matches ahead or marriage mayhem. I love it.
1:03.5	So stream now on Channel 4. There is so much on there, including Maffsa and Scared of
1:10.0	the Dark, Danny Dyer hosting as eight celebrities of plunge into complete darkness for eight days.
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2:09.4	Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, the podcast that celebrates the things
2:14.8	that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding
2:21.0	that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger, because learning how to fail in life actually
2:27.3	means learning how to succeed better. I'm your host author and journalist Elizabeth
2:32.9	Day and every week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure.
2:39.8	One carriage is one of the nation's best love chefs, but as a child he had ambitions
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