
So then we could have Two Fat Ladies - The Requiem. Jennifer and I made a pact that if we ever got to series 27, we'd drive off a cliff together. If they are, I'll probably be dead from exhaustion. "I'd be terribly arrogant if I thought people would still be clamouring for the Two Fat Ladies in five years' time. "I'd have thought the trend would have burnt out five years ago," Dickson Wright says with wonder.


The Two Fat Ladies are canny enough to realise that the bubble may soon burst for TV chefs. The next generation may be more liberated sexually, but they sure as hell can't cook." Now they're settling down and getting married, they're realising they haven't got those skills. "These programmes are so popular because we've got a whole generation who didn't learn to cook at their mother's knee. "It's horrendous," Dickson Wright chortles. They are well aware that they are surfing the fashionable wave of cookery programmes at the moment. "I'm extremely grateful I declined the invitation, because if I'd gone, I'd probably be in chains in the Tower by now."įeisty, opinionated, but above all fun, the Two Fat Ladies make for wonderful company - a sort of larger-than-life version of the French and Saunders sketch about the two large country ladies who dismiss all problems as "stuff and nonsense". "Tony Blair obviously doesn't read my column in Scotland on Sunday," she snorts. Dickson Wright recently received an invitation to a reception at 10 Downing Street, which she turned down. As you might expect, the latest beef ban makes the Two Fat Ladies seethe.
