Boxing Clever: Mulled-wine glazed ham with 'cheeky' glazed cheese is very Jamie Oliver

— and I'm hooked to a Russian drama about a group of people on the run from a killer pandemic
Boxing Clever: Mulled-wine glazed ham with 'cheeky' glazed cheese is very Jamie Oliver

Jamie: Keep Cooking At Christmas. Photograph: Paul Stuart

Jamie: Keep Cooking at Christmas (Channel 4, Sunday 8pm and All 4) feels a little odd from the get go. There’s something not quite right — as if it’s running at three-quarter speed. And then it occurs to me. Jamie Oliver is getting old. And if Jamie is getting old, so am I. That’s not going to put me in the Christmas spirit.

The geezer on the scooter with the cool girlfriend is now Dad in a too-small shirt , with five kids to feed. The machine-gun delivery is toned down — as if he’s worried that he might wake the youngest one. I don’t like this at all.

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