Joe Swash on his dad’s shock death, wife Stacey Soloman and why family mealtime is so important 

The actor and presenter has written his first cookbook. Katie Wright finds out more.

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash attending the Brit Awards. Picture: Ian West/PA 

It’s not often a cookbook can bring you to tears (unless you’re talking about the onion chopping-induced variety).

But reading Joe Swash’s ode to his father Ricky, who passed away suddenly when the London-born actor and presenter was 11 years old, is incredibly moving.