Ainsley Harriott

A photo of a window display a large polar bear and a cardboard cut of Stanely Tucci went viral on Twitter and it’s made people realise that many of us actually have really weird window displays. Twitter user, Bethany Rutter, tweeted the image with the caption: “A house near me...

Growing up, television was the only form of entertainment at home, apart from our Encyclopedia Britannica volumes, which were so enormous and packed with so many thin pages that we only reluctantly referred to them for schoolwork. Otherwise, we used to congregate as a family in the dining area, where there was a television. I was the youngest of three and that’s where we used to watch all our shows.

I have a painting of an old lady stirring a pot on a fire in a West Indian kitchen, cooking with her children. It used to hang in my mum’s kitchen and now I’ve got it in mine. It’s lovely and tells of yesteryear. My father was an entertainer and...