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Phil Vickery cooks great British food and is rightly famous for his puddings.

Born in Folkestone, Kent, Phil trained in the Lake District before working at Gravetye Manor in West Sussex and Restaurant 74 in Canterbury. He then moved to Taunton in Somerset and became the head chef at the Castle Hotel. During his nine years there, among many awards, he won Michelin and Egon Ronay stars four years in a row.

He has since written several cookery books including Just Food: No Nonsense, No Fuss, Just Delicious; This Morning: Fern & Phil's Family Feast; Proof of the Pudding; and A Passion for Puddings.

He appears regularly on Ready Steady Cook and This Morning, as well as many other programmes. Phil also writes for several magazines and is married to TV presenter Fern Britton.

Information courtesy of the BBC