Celebrity chef Donal Skehan has shared his mot embaressing moment - and it happened on live television.
He had a unfortunate accident on BBC One's Saturday Kitchen in the summer of 2017, when he sliced his finger while chopping herbs with comedian Julian Clary.
A total professional, he held his injured hand behind his back so that viewers would be spared the sight of any blood, and cracked on with the segment as best he could.
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"I was hosting Saturday Kitchen and Julian Clary was on, and we were cooking on the rooftop," he told The Independent.
"I was using a really sharp knife and cut the top of my finger off on live TV on the BBC in front of two million people."
"I always own the situation and think it shows resilience when you’re able to keep going."
He certainly owned it in the moment.
"I'm fine, we'll just crack on through," said Donal on the show.
"It didn't happen. We've just cut my finger and that's okay because this is live television with very sharp knives. We're fine but we'll plate up. I'll crack on through.
"Nothing like a bit of blood on a Saturday morning."
At the time he shared a snap of his bandaged finger after the show, and took to X, then Twitter, to reassure fans that he was fine.
"Huge thanks for all the lovely tweets on the finger! Thankfully not too deep but ooh that smarts!" he said.
He also shared his worst cooking disaster, which occurred at a very important time - Christmas.
"It always comes back to one Christmas dinner. We always divvy up the jobs; my mum will do the turkey, my aunt will take a side, someone else does a dessert. One year, I did the Christmas ham. I put it on the boil."
"I shouldn’t have but we had a new puppy in the house so we decided we’d go for a walk. We went for a long walk, and I got my timings wrong and boiled the life out of the ham, and it turned into pulled pork and was falling apart by the time we got back."
"I had to run out on the day before Christmas to try and get another one. It happens to the best of us."
It's reassuring to know even the best of chefs make mistakes in the kitchen!
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