Strictly Come Dancing favourite Debbie McGee, 61, has revealed her plans to “try something different” during the coronavirus lockdown today after growing tired of cooking “on her own for herself”. The radio presenter, who is believed to have been living alone since the death of her late husband Paul Daniels in 2016, told her 43,000 Twitter followers she is set to take part in an online cook along with Italian chef Giancarlo Caldesi, 68.
While revealing her new move with the restauranteur, Debbie tweeted: “So I am trying something different today.
“I will be doing an online cook along with @MrCaldesi later.”
The former magician’s assistant went on to share that she has become “really bored” of just making meals for herself at home.
She added: “So excited, really bored of just cooking on my own for myself. But love cooking.”
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“And the first episode I was involved in, my introduction was Paul saying, ‘And here is the lovely Debbie McGee’ and it just stuck.
“He used it every time he introduced me, so other people picked up on it.”
She continued: “If I went to do the radio show, they’d say, ‘And here is the lovely Debbie McGee’.
“And here we are over 30 years later, on my BBC Radio Berkshire radio show, my jingle is, ‘You’re listening to BBC Radio Berkshire with the lovely Debbie McGee’.
“Who would have thought people would still be calling me it? It’s a nice title to have.
“It’s better than, ‘The horrible Debbie McGee’ isn’t it?”
The magician died after being diagnosed with a brain tumour aged 77.
After his death, Debbie said: “From diagnosis, he died four weeks and five days later, so there wasn’t time to think about what was happening.
“We just had to get on with the situation and look after him. It wasn’t until after he died, that the huge realisation kind of washed over me. I am out here, on this earth, on my own.”
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