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Delia Smith was a swimwear model before she became a television chef Photo: BBC


Delia Smith: boss told me off for short skirts
TV chef Delia Smith has revealed how she was admonished by her boss for wearing short skirts while waitressing.

Published: 4:12PM GMT 04 Jan 2010

The star had to be reprimanded for revealing too much while bending over to open bottles of wine at tables.

She makes her confession in a new BBC show celebrating her career, Delia Through The Decades, to be screened this month.


The TV chef - who previously had a stint as a photographic swimwear model - admitted: ''I used to have a mini-skirt on. If I did waitressing and I couldn't pull the cork out of the bottle, I would put it between my ankles like this - and I used to get told off because I had a mini skirt.''

Smith, 68, returns to the restaurant for the series and is reunited with fellow staff and the then owner, chef Leo Evans.

''If it wasn't for this restaurant and if it wasn't for Leo I wouldn't have had a career at all,'' she said.

The presenter also discloses how she produced one of the world's most recognisable cakes unaware that it was to be used on the sleeve of a major album.

Smith famously made the cake on the cover of the Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed and owns a framed image of the sleeve signed by frontman Sir Mick Jagger.

In the first episode of her new BBC2 series, to be screened on Monday January 11, she said: ''One morning I got a call from a photographer who said 'could you do Tuesday this week? I need a really gaudy cake - It's got to look really gaudy and horrible'.

''So I went along with my gaudy cake and I didn't know until I actually got to the studio that it was the cover of a Stones album.''

She said she was delighted by the commission: ''I was a huge Stones fan. I went to see them live when they were in concert. I had all their albums - I still have got them.''

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well you can't have yer cake ... and eat it too ... darling ...  :smilemick

Delia's every bit as renowned as Ronnie is in the UK for being pretty fond of the 'sauce'......  :booze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-KizC6wEys

Cool ~ her CLAIM TO FAME!

Can she play guitar?

Bitch wrote on Jan 4^th, 2010 at 6:56pm:

Cool ~ her CLAIM TO FAME!

Wouldnt go that far. She's been an extremely well known and popular TV presenter for the last few decades and the Let it Bleed thing is a minor bit of trivia most people didnt even know.

I've seen her mentioned on our Aussie cable. She has a show on the BBC channel i think.

Good for her!

Cool story. Didn't know they actually used a model for it.

I always wondered about that cake, I thought at first it was a painting, now I know.

Gazza wrote on Jan 4^th, 2010 at 5:27pm:

Delia's every bit as renowned as Ronnie is in the UK for being pretty fond of the 'sauce'......  :booze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-KizC6wEys

omg......................... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

wrote on Feb 5^th, 2010 at 6:12pm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-KizC6wEys

omg......................... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif][/quote]

It didn't help... they were relegated  :aimama