Matt Lucas is dangerously allergic to raw fruit.
Matt Lucas is dangerously allergic to raw fruit
The ‘Come Fly With Me’ star, 49, revealed that there are plenty of foods he cannot eat due to an intense anaphylactic reaction from his body, and he has to avoid them at all costs.
During a recent appearance on the ‘Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware’ podcast, he said: “So I have allergies, like, anaphylactic allergies. Raw apples, raw peaches, raw pears, and raw plums.”
Matt did however emphasise that cooked fruit was ok with him, and that he couldn’t resist some fruity desserts.
He added: “If it's cooked, I'm fine. Like, I wouldn't eat raw apples but, like, an apple pie - Like if it were McDonald's apple pie, I'd have two!”
As well as having these allergies, the ‘Little Britain’ legend also revealed he hated cheese and fish, something that the ‘Saturday Kitchen’ team wasn’t told about before he appeared live on the show.
Matt then recalled hilarious story of when he was forced to eat haddock live on the show.
He said: “I don't eat cheese, and I don't eat fish, but they didn't get that memo. So they made me some. They gave me some haddock.
“It didn't have any cheese sauce on it. But it was still haddock, and it was live on the television. The man had worked ever so hard and he was very, you know, a very good chef.
“I was on the TV and I thought well, I've got to be well-behaved. What happened was, because- It doesn't matter, you could be the best chef in the world, and this could be the best fish in the world.
“I was on this Saturday Kitchen and they gave me the haddock and do you know what I did? I did have a taste of it because obviously, I was on the television. You need to be polite.
"I went, ‘Oh, this is- Try this! Oh, try that!’, and I went round the studio. And then people would have gone, ‘Matt Lucas is very good to the crew’, you know. I was palming it off is what I was actually doing.”
Listen back to the episode here - https://play.acast.com/s/tablemanners/
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