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If it is a professional chef who has a restaurant currently then they need to be London based, and have an extremely well set up brigade system as their absences would mount up.
Or, intriguingly, MasterChef the Professionals hosts, Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti, and former host, Michel Roux Jr, have all closed their restaurants recently for work-life balance reasons, and so have a lot more free time for TV now. They have, or have had, contracts with Banijay, the production company who makes MasterChef for the BBC.
Ainsley Harriott was a comedy actor who lucked out hosting Can't Cook, Won't Cook, and is all about the fun and silliness. And, let's be honest, is a bit Marmite- plenty of people just think he is as described on the sausage packet above!
MasterChef has launched some very serious careers, and Si King, although an everyman figure, as Wallace was supposed to be, is right at the heart of the "foodie" revolution in British culture and so would have enough substance to carry it off.
Other names with TV hosting experience:
Jimmy Doherty, Simon Rimmer, Matt Tebbutt (please no), James Martin (triple please no).
Good current chefs with TV profile and decent inter-personal skills: Richard Bainbridge (would be excellent but a trek from his restaurant in Norwich), Sally Abé (one of the standouts from Great British Menu this year who has taken what looks like a less pressured job in a Gastro pub in the Cotswolds recently), my completely random suggestion is Scott Smith, who has been on Great British Menu and recently closed his fine dining restaurant in Edinburgh to go in with a firm opening a Gastro pub, he has the looks, is personable, and has a non-London accent.
Simon Rogan, Angela Hartnett and Tom Kerridge are too busy with multi-restaurant groups.
Plenty of chefs have historical "HR issues" lurking, having been as shouty and angry as Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay when that was seen as the way to do it, or stories in the press about screwing staff on tips, or closing restaurants leaving big debts to suppliers or people with Gift Vouchers angry, so wouldn't be a safe pair of hands for the brand right now!
"Our best opener": there's only two of them to compare- the one who gets runs and the one who doesn't, and yet you have bafflingly gone for the pedigree Great Dane with no runs over the snappy Staffy-cross with a healthy average.
If Crawley ends this series against Bumrah and Siraj averaging 40+ then he will deserve to keep his place. If he ends it with an average in the 20s then he definitely doesn't. 30 to 35 is moot point territory, 36 to 40 is benefit of the doubt. The same should apply to Pope.
Ben Foakes has a Test average of 29.2, which is respectable for a wicketkeeper-batter as opposed to a batter who keeps a bit. But it should be remembered that he played for the team and sometimes sacrificed his wicket to the excesses of Bazball when England were trying to thrash a quick extra 60 before a declaration.
Crawley, who only concentrates on his batting (judging by the catches he has dropped recently) averages 30.1 across a statistically significant 57 Tests.
Duckett has an average of 41.89 from 36 Tests.
The googly in all this is that Crawley has a very good average against Australia of 43.1. He still needs to do it against Bumrah and Siraj this series, in my opinion, though, to be on the plane for The Ashes.
Because Delap had an extremely good first season in the Prem, and Hutchinson, in comparison, did well considering he was in a struggling team, without pulling any trees up.
Delap gave experienced, internationally capped, central defenders a mauling on more than one occasion, Hutchinson, generally, was at best honours-even against similar quality full backs. Which is still impressive for someone his age in his first Premier League season, but Delap had a much bigger impact.
The stats put it plainly:
Delap 12 goals, 2 assists in 37 (5) appearances.
Hutchinson 3 goals, 2 assists in 31 (1) appearances.
Plus Centre Forwards usually have a 1.5 to 2x mark up on wingers and support forwards.
The advantage of Crawley and Duckett as the opening partnership is that it gives bowlers a problem of having to shift both line, because one is right handed and the other left, and length, because one is one of the tallest openers in Test cricket, the other one of the shortest.
For the Ashes in Australia, where length is extremely important, it would be good if we could find another tall right handed if Crawley is to be discarded.
A left-field shout would be to bring Foakes back as wicketkeeper, and promote Jamie Smith to open. He has the best average in world cricket against short-pitched bowling over the last year, according to a stat Sky showed during the Second Test. There's also an argument not to mess with one of the departments that is working well, but I favour an attacking approach against the Aussies.
He could save the brand, is excellent at getting the best from people who aren't used to being on TV, and is as close to a national treasure as can be found!
Plus it is a programme of similar status to Hairy Bikers, so it would give him a great chance to resume his career with something different to what he has done before, but that will let him shine.
They'll probably just pair Jay Rayner with Grace Dent, but Si King would be better than either.
The Judge has been very strong. She went beyond the maximum guideline for sentencing (4 years) due to the social harm and distress caused, and due to them revelling in the crime and the fact that others had been arrested for their crime.
Sentence 4 years 3 months.
They will serve a minimum of 40% in prison (approx 20 months).
What's the feeling on that sentence?
I am aware that some "one punch killers" have been given shorter sentences than that, for example. I am concerned that the Judge said that the widespread public response was a factor in increasing the sentence. That suggests that social media campaigns could influence sentencing.
Sylvain Legwinski was an absolute Rolls Royce of a player, but only with us for two seasons.
Too many of the best players of the past 25 years have been one season loanees: Gio, Fraser, J Williams, Celina, Lawrence. And DJ Campbell was lethal during his short loan spell.
In with a shout for "Best Player to play for Ipswich in the last 20 years" is Chris Wood. It's just that he wasn't at his best during his time here, and has only fully blossomed relatively late in his career. There's a fair chance that the OPs son doesn't know that Chris Wood played for Ipswich, and that it was that spell that resurrected his career, so worth including in the chat!
You know damn well that what the barmaids in The Curve don't appreciate it you showing them your Ipswich Underground Ticket and asking "So can I use your back entry and then go down?" before you take that entrance.
You're right, though, the Underground is long overdue an expansion.
I'd be surprised if Mr Sheeran doesn't start lobbying for a route out Framingham way, although that would probably necessitate some overground routing.
I remember seeing a couple of GI Joe types on it once. They had come for an evening out in Ipswich from Lakenheath, and were spending it riding round the Ipswich Underground. With round being the operative word! They were from Texas, and treated every bend as if it was Pleasurewood Hills' latest thrill ride because:
"Where we're from, trucks and trains just drive straight. For hours..."
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