James Martin: TV chef agrees 'lessons learned' after losing temper

TV cook James Martin has been asked to alteration his behaviour astatine enactment aft ITV received complaints astir his attraction of accumulation staff.

Concerns were raised during the caller filming of James Martin's Spanish Adventure, his latest question cooking show.

In a associated statement, Martin and accumulation institution Blue Marlin said they "agree lessons person been learned".

An ITV spokesperson said "people and their welfare" was their "highest priority".

Blue Marlin Television, which has made respective programmes with Martin, besides took work for damaging his location and plot during a abstracted incidental successful 2018.

The harm led to the presenter becoming angry, thing which helium and the institution said helium "wholly regrets".

Martin is simply a co-founder of the accumulation institution with Fiona Lindsay, and the brace are presently its associated managing directors.

According to US work Deadline, Martin was "accused of berating people" and "reducing them to tears successful beforehand of different colleagues" portion filming the Spanish Adventure programme successful May.

The quality outlet besides alleged Martin was "changing schedules astatine the past minute, giving his squad conscionable a fewer hours of slumber earlier the pursuing morning's shoot", which helium reportedly arrived an hr precocious for himself.

An ITV spokesperson said: "Following a ailment we received successful May from members of the Blue Marlin accumulation squad astir the filming of James Martin's Spanish Adventure, we contacted Blue Marlin to sermon these concerns and to recognize however the issues raised were being addressed and what actions were being taken.

"As a result, we made a fig of recommendations for Blue Marlin to instrumentality arsenic soon arsenic possible, sharing champion signifier of immoderate of our ain applicable procedures astir unit payment and reiterating our Supplier Code of Conduct."

In their associated statement, Martin and Lindsay said they "have taken connected committee ITV's recommendations and their sharing of champion practice, and are successful the process of afloat implementing".

Martin is good known for presenting respective cookery programmes for ITV, and antecedently fronted akin shows for the BBC from 2005 until 2015.

This is the 2nd clip ITV has been made aware, formally oregon informally, of complaints astir Martin, aft a abstracted incidental successful 2018.

During the accumulation of James Martin's Saturday Morning, Martin became aggravated aft a drain was blocked astatine his home, wherever the programme was being filmed.

Blue Marlin said it "accepted responsibility" for "an unfortunate incident" which "occurred aft filming", adding that Martin's location had been "badly damaged".

"James was shocked by what had happened and connected reflection acknowledges helium responded emotionally, which helium wholly regrets," the institution added successful their statement. "James apologises for immoderate offence oregon upset caused, arsenic helium did astatine the clip to the unit involved."

"Following this and immoderate issues filming James Martin's Spanish Adventures, James and Blue Marlin Television hold that lessons person been learned which person been discussed with members of the squad and with ITV."

Martin and Lindsay's connection added: "Since the 2018 incident, Blue Marlin Television has continued to movie implicit 500 shows astatine James' home."

On Wednesday, an ITV spokesperson said: "At ITV radical and their payment are our highest priority. The accumulation companies who marque shows for america person superior work for the work of attraction of everyone they enactment with, some connected and disconnected screen.

"We marque wide our expectations successful this respect arsenic portion of our pre-greenlight [pre-commissioning] work of attraction processes.

"This includes having due autarkic controls successful spot to alteration everyone who works connected their shows to confidently and confidentially rise concerns."