Damian Lewis banned from cooking for his daughter
Actor Damian Lewis has been banned from cooking for his vegetarian daughter because his ability to whip up meat-free meals is "poor".
Damian Lewis has been banned from cooking for his vegetarian daughter.
The 'Homeland' star, 53, is dad to daughter Manon, 18, and son Gulliver, 16, with his late wife Helen McCrory and he's revealed his eldest has gone meat-free and will no longer let him make dinner for her because his "vegetarian cooking is poor".
During an appearance on the 'Dish' podcast Nick Grimshaw and Angela Harnett, Damian explained: "Yeah, I do cook. I like it. My daughter won't let me cook for her anymore.
"She's vegetarian and she's become very particular about how she cooks. I bought her an air fryer."
He added: "My vegetarian cooking is poor. If Manon lets me make something for her, it's probably, it's probably half a big pepper filled with something.
"We might do a vegetarian chilli to go in it. So it's quite basic".
Damian went on to reveal both his children developed a taste for "adult food" early on and they became obsessed with Italian chain Carluccio's - so he decided to attempt to cook an octopus dish for them and it went horribly wrong.
He explained: "We made the mistake early on with our kids, or not the mistake, because it's really nice, of just not always feeding them baked beans when they were hungry.
"Yeah, so they're always trying to eat adult food. But then my two, very young, North London, privileged children developed a taste for Carluccio's. And only Carluccio's.
"So, we couldn't go past the Carluccio's with, you know, some snotty five year old going, 'Po po. Daddy, let's go in and eat octopus'. So then I decided, sod that I'm going to cook an octopus myself. And it was terrible."
Damian added: "I just sort of just dehydrated this, and it was a whole octopus. I said, 'Give me the whole octopus. I want to cut it. I want to get it into the rings. I want to do the whole thing myself'.
"I boiled it with salt and shallots, and a bit of white wine or white wine vinegar, and sort of part boiled, part steamed it …That's what it was. It was a drowning octopus. There were a lot of legs."
