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Tom Kerridge Reflects on Hand & Flowers Rise as ITV Series Returns

The ITV airing has prompted renewed attention to his past heavy drinking, his decision to quit without professional help, his self-devised diet that he says led to an 11‑stone loss.

Overview

  • Coverage on Thursday highlights how Kerridge and his wife Beth invested their savings to buy The Hand & Flowers in Marlow in 2005 and turned it into a two‑Michelin‑star pub.
  • Profiles revisited Kerridge’s past late‑night drinking, which he has described as extreme and has publicly detailed in interviews with The Guardian and podcasts.
  • Kerridge says he stopped drinking without formal treatment and replaced alcohol with exercise and structured routines such as swimming, running and gym work.
  • He credits a self-devised low‑carb, higher‑protein ‘dopamine diet’ with losing about 11 stone over three years, a claim presented on his website and in recent interviews.
  • The renewed publicity around his personal story and ITV show reinforces his media brand and invites wider discussion of kitchen pressure, self‑care choices and unverified diet claims.