Renowned chef James Martin has spoken about a situation at school where he found himself in tears every week. Speaking on the Spooning podcast with Mark Wogan earlier this year James, 52, said he struggled at school and “hated” large parts of it. He also went into detail about his life at school and what he would be doing in his spare time and during the holidays when everyone was chilling out.
James, who hosts ITV ’s Saturday Morning, espoused his love for cooking and his role as a chef as something he’d wanted to do since he was eight years old. At school, James ruminated: “I hated it. I failed all my exams at school.
I didn’t enjoy it. I loved the cooking side of it but I couldn’t do it academically because..
.you had to pass things these full exams and I would never pass an exam in my life. “I left school with no qualifications.
I’m not proud of it but I used to hate Wednesdays. Wednesday [was a] spelling test. “I’d be in tears on a Wednesday night, I’d have 20,000 words to write because I knew that I would get every single one of them wrong.
“[I was a] massive dyslexic , never read a book in my life apart from I think Peter and Jane level B2 was probably the last one I read when I was at primary school. I just longed to be cooking and so hand in hand with being at school I was working every weekend.” James added: “In the summer holidays when everybody would just chill out, I used to go France and I was working at two-star Michelin places and .