S9, Ep1: Gary Kemp, musician

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Songwriter, musician and actor, best known as a heartthrob in one of the biggest bands of the 1980s, Gary Kemp joins Grace for a brand new helping of Comfort Eating. Longtime Spandau Ballet fan Grace hears about the good old days: how Gary poured a tin of golden syrup over baby brother Martin Kemp’s head; how there were eels for dinner kept alive in his nan’s sink; and how hot fish and chips in their wrapper warped his first beloved T Rex record. Gary opens up about how he defiantly started eating meat again after his very public split from actor Sadie Frost, how his film career took him to Hollywood to act alongside Whitney Houston, who worked the catering tent nicely, and unwanted perishable gifts from affectionate fans at the height of Spandau Ballet fame

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.6	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:13.6	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.5	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:21.8	I believe the food that matters most
0:24.1	is often that snack you cobbled together
0:26.8	when you're curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid
0:32.6	on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person
0:38.8	from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:44.7	Hello, friends.
0:46.5	Now, I am not normally a meal planner per se, but unusually, you find me at my fridge, plotting the week ahead's consumption as I await my
0:58.0	guest. It's one of my key 80s heart throbs, Gary Kemp. I'll tell you, I've applied my lipstick
1:06.1	all the more carefully this morning. It is that time of the year when the resolution to stick to the New Year's resolution
1:15.9	is stretched away for thin.
1:18.6	Now mine was to eat seasonally.
1:22.4	And listener, I am so sick of cabbage and kale.
1:26.1	I feel weak with culinary disaffection.
1:29.5	I've now got a load of hard little apples and British pears
1:34.8	that are sitting like bullets in the fruit bowl.
1:38.4	My taste buds are screaming out for blueberries
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