Lee Dixon: Ask A Silly Question

Hi Lee. You're pals with Heston Blumenthal. Has he ever made you a nice slice of toast, or does everything have to be fired out of a cannon and marinated in butterfly wings first?
It's funny: I go round to Heston's house every New Year's Eve or they come to our place, and we always order an Indian takeaway. He tends not to cook, for obvious reasons, and we don't want to pressure him.

Shame. We'd expect cous-cous unicorns answering the door and floating soup.
No, nothing like that. He does have chickens roaming about. I always think, you don't want to be living here, lads! But you feel the pressure a little bit when he comes round. I try to go for a safe option like pasta.

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Nick Moore

Nick Moore is a freelance journalist based on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He wrote his first FourFourTwo feature in 2001 about Gerard Houllier's cup-treble-winning Liverpool side, and has continued to ink his witty words for the mag ever since. Nick has produced FFT's 'Ask A Silly Question' interview for 16 years, once getting Peter Crouch to confess that he dreams about being a dwarf.