James Martin shares major concern ahead of 'serious' career move away from ITV show

James Martin has been the look of Saturday mornings for implicit a decade, but the ITV big volition beryllium taking a measurement backmost from his fashionable cooking amusement for an important reason

Famed cook and restaurateur James Martin is shifting his absorption from tv to his upcoming tour, but he's confessed to having immoderate signifier fright. In an interrogation with Cotswold Life magazine, Martin spoke astir his 5th tour, which volition screen England, Wales, and Scotland, but admitted he's disquieted astir not gathering expectations.

He listed immoderate of the "serious" venues he'll beryllium performing at, including Birmingham Symphony Hall, Newcastle 02, and Bridgewater Hall successful Manchester, and shared his interest astir disappointing the audience. "If I walked retired determination and was rubbish...", helium trailed off, intelligibly dreading the thought.

Despite his nerves, Martin is thrilled to beryllium performing successful beforehand of ample crowds and promises a unsocial acquisition that's antithetic from his Saturday greeting ITV show. "People deliberation the unrecorded shows are going to beryllium similar my Saturday greeting show, but it's truly not - it's fast-paced, amusive comedy, made by a large squad and it is truly cool."

James shared a touching infinitesimal from his travel to fame arsenic helium recalled performing astatine the London Palladium with his household cheering him on: "On my past circuit we played a Sunday nighttime astatine The London Palladium. Walking retired connected that stage, seeing my mum and dada successful the assemblage was magical. They knew however overmuch I had worked and for however agelong to get there."

He traced backmost his palmy emergence to prominence arsenic 1 of Britain's favourite TV chefs to his aboriginal days grooming successful France, reports the Express.

It wasn't agelong earlier James made his people successful top-tier restaurants and astatine the young property of 24, helium broke into tv with 'James Martin: Yorkshire's Finest'.

But it is his regular appearances connected ITV’s 'James Martin's Saturday Morning' and BBC's 'Saturday Kitchen' that person sealed his presumption arsenic a culinary icon.

When not connected screen, James runs his ain pubs and restaurants, including esteemed names similar The Lygon Arms and The Kitchen astatine Chewton Glen.