Simon Hulstone

1. Do you follow any soap operas?

Byker Grove (children's TV)

2. Cast away on a desert island, what luxury would you take?

Pringles

3. What was your first job in catering?

Kitchen assistant at the Imperial hotel, Torquay

4. What do you normally have for breakfast?

My dinner

5. What do you do to relax?

Watch MTV

6. Tell us your most embarrassing moment…

Getting drunk at an after-event meal at the Imperial, in front of management and my dad when I was 15

7. What do you see yourself doing in five years' time?

Working in a quality establishment with my name above the door

8. What ingredient do you hate the most?

Handling and the smell of raw sweetbreads - they are repulsive

9. Do you have a favourite film?

Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver

10. What is your idea of a perfect day off?

Sleeping - undisturbed

11. What is the best advice you have ever been given?

Don't drink excessive amounts after competitions and go to sleep in the toilets

12. Which person gave you the greatest inspiration?

My dad - he's always there, nothing's too difficult

13. When did you last cry and why?

When I told my dad I'd won the gold - he sounded so happy

14. What two words best describe you?

Sarcastic, annoying

15. If not yourself, who would you rather have been?

Someone else, so I could go out with me

16. What time do you get up/go to bed on a working day?

7.30-1.30am

17. What irritates you most about hotels?

College boys in suits with a position of responsibility

18. What is your ideal holiday?

Club 18-30, where the girls outnumber the boys 10 to one

19. Who would you most like to be stuck in a lift with?

Pamela Anderson on a hot, sweaty day

20. What is the most frustrating part of your job?

Serving Sammy Swallow food (the children's menu)

21. What set off your last uncontrollable bout of laughter?

Watching a kitchen porter walk into a wet-floor cone, fall over and spill a bag of flour over his head