Adrian Chiles has started getting "feelings" for his spoons.
Adrian Chiles has started getting 'feelings' for his spoons
The former 'The One Show' presenter has told how he recently realised he has a "favourite" spoon and if he ever happened to sadly lose the kitchen utensil he would "miss it for ever".
He said: "I surveyed my spoon drawer and considered my feelings. I was disappointed to see I have no fewer than 17 wooden spoons.
"Disappointed because this implies a certain shallowness, as if I’m some kind of spoon lothario, collecting notches on my bedpost, focusing on quantity rather than quality.
"Stirring without love is just exercise, after all. But sorting through them, I realised I do have a favourite.
"It’s more of a spatula than a spoon, but it suits me very well.
"I had always looked out for it without knowing I was doing so and felt a twinge of disappointment if it didn’t come to hand. If ever I lost it for good, I now understood, I would miss it for ever."
After realising his penchant for spoons, Adrian even hosted a Radio 5 Live phone-in to see if there were others with the same feelings for their servers - and there are.
Writing in his column for The Guardian newspaper, he said: "I get significant stick for ruminating on ball-achingly mundane subjects like this and, I’ll be honest, on this occasion my confidence did start to waver."
But he added: "Karen in Edinburgh phoned in to tell us she was experiencing what she called spoon grief. A daft notion you may think, but it immediately made perfect sense. Her late mother’s serving spoon was missing, presumed lost. 'Every time I go in that drawer, I feel so sad,' she said. There was so much love in that spoon."
This comes after Adrian made headlines last month when he revealed he has a urinal installed in his house.
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