Steph's Packed Lunch: Alan Johnson once ate with the Queen
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Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson appeared on Tuesday’s Channel 4 daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch. Cooking up a treat in the kitchen, he revealed a royal mess of a story that made him glad he “didn’t spend long in the Tower of London”.
Co-host Anton Du Beke joined Steph as the pair tackled this week’s headlines and the UK’s worst habits.
Over in the kitchen, before they unearthed their habits, the two sat down to find out what celebrity guest Alan Johnson had in store for them.
As he prepared his workstation, Steph asked: “You have eaten will all kinds of dignities and leaders and that in your time. And you’ve eaten with the Queen as well, haven’t you?”
Serving under Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the time, Alan was quick to reply: “We’re not really allowed to talk about that.”
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Anton and Steph paused for a second, with the pair presumably questioning if there was a legal reason why he couldn’t say or did he have to keep tight-lipped for another reason saying, “really!?”
Continuing to make his meal, he revealed: “I did make a faux pas. She was there. There were cheese and biscuits. Her Majesty was tossing some biscuits to the dogs, to the corgis.
“I didn’t see that, and I took one of those biscuits and put some cheese on it and ate it and was told, ‘I hate to tell you, but they are for the dogs’.”
The studio audience and presenters burst into laughter as he ended the traumatic story with: “Fortunately, I didn’t spend long in the Tower of London!”
Jesting about making lobster thermidor or coq au vin for his lunchtime treat, he settled with making his “childhood favourite” of a “banana and chocolate” sandwich.
Lucky for him, he had lots of other parliamentary stories he could recount to take the heat off for eating a dog biscuit.
Describing a trip to China that fellow politician Lord John Prescott took, he opened up about Lord John’s straight-talking, no-nonsense style and a lavish dinner he had.
Alan described the event: “When I was in Parliament, my culinary hero was John Prescott.
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“He went to China as Deputy Prime Minister. And they laid on a big banquet for him with the top chefs, obviously Chinese food.
“Then they said to John afterwards, ‘What did you think of that?’ He said it was alright, but it wasn’t as good as Jack Chu’s on St Andrew’s Dock in Hull because that’s his local.
“It caused a diplomatic incident, but I was with John on that.”
Also joining the show was Strictly pro Erin Boag, the lead singer of the band Bastille Dan Smith and Marcus Brigstocke.
The 55-year-old dancer turned judge Anton Du Beke also shared a story that threw another Strictly judge under the bus.
Adding: “One of the judges on Strictly Come Dancing.
“I won’t say which one. A male. Probably Italian. He was on a radio show, and I was doing the radio show later.
“The host said to me, ‘please try not to swear, I’m only saying this because I did an interview with such and such last week and he swore and in the process of apologizing for swearing swore another six times’.”
Steph’s Packed Lunch airs weekdays at 12.30 pm on Channel 4
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