FRY HAS NO TASTE FOR LIFE'S LEFTOVERS

It is a concept he “loathes and despises”. As he tells The Stage in trenchant tones: “It’s like picking over the remains of life and that’s squalid and dreadful. Dancing On Ice is simply torture to me. I would rather skewer my own eyeballs out of their sockets with a blunt bodkin than I would watch that.

“Although,” he adds with a sheepish grin, “I do rather like Celebrity Masterchef. So what does that say about me?”

That he prefers cooking to ice-skating?