Celebrity chef James Martin has told he was received a lucrative offer to open a restaurant in Barbados as he addressed the future of his ITV show James Martin's Saturday Morning. The 52-year-old made his name on TV as the main presenter of Saturday Kitchen from 2006 to 2016 before leaving the BBC and moving over to ITV. In a chat with Best magazine, James told what the next 12 months will hold for him, including the opportunity on the sun-kissed Caribbean island, He said: "We're recording the Saturday show all next year, I'm touring and there's a restaurant in Barbados that I've been offered, which I'd quite like to look at, too.
In between all that, I'm hoping for a day off." Martin took over from Antony Worrall Thompson as the main presenter of Saturday Kitchen in 2006, and under his stewardship the show became a huge success, reaching a peak of 3.8 million viewers.
The chef announced he was quitting Saturday Kitchen in February 2016, citing a desire to concentrate on other work commitments and wanting a Saturday morning lie in as the principle reasons. The following year he began presenting Saturday Morning with James Martin on rival network ITV. He told Best it was 'nerve-wracking' leaving the Beeb but he wanted to 'leave on a high'.
James added: "We had 3.8 million people watching Saturday Kitchen, and I didn't want to leave when it was on the decline. "I didn't want to do anymore TV then, I wanted to concentrate on my restaurants.
But ITV tempted me with the Saturday m.