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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