Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.

This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.

These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,

the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to

eat before being cast off to the desert island. The question is, what would you choose as your

last meal? Hi, how are you all? I hope you're well and having a good week. We are finally

through January, which feels good, doesn't it? I'm very excited to be back in the swing of

things with the podcast. Thank you so much for all of your lovely messages and comments about

last week's episode with Gwyneth Paltrow. I'm just so pleased everyone enjoyed it so much,

and what a very exciting start to the new year. I have a lovely episode for you today with the

brilliant Fern. You may know Fern as a reality TV star and TV presenter, so she isn't directly

from the world of food, but you will hear that she has a real passion for it, which really

comes through and that always makes my

job very fun. She was so open and honest in this conversation and I really took a lot away

from this, so I hope you do too. She's the kind of person who really just makes things happen

and I like that in a person a lot. So without further ado,

let's get into today's episode. My guest today is Fern McCann. Furn is a TV presenter,

reality TV star, social media sensation and entrepreneur. She shot to fame on hit reality series The Only

Wears Essex where she quickly became a fan favourite. She's gone on to front her own ITVB series,

which ran from 2018 to 2024 and documented her journey into motherhood with her two daughters.

Since then, she's graced our screens on shows like I'm a

Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and Celebrity S-A-S-H-Hus, Who Dairs Wins. She is currently preparing for the

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