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08.10.2023 - 20:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
It's the kitchen drama gripping the nation - but viewers may not realise there's a real life chef in BBC series Boliing Point. Former Manchester Chef of the Year Rachel Stockley will be seen in the kitchen of fictional fine dining restaurant Point North from episode two onwards on the BBC drama.
Life imitates art for Rachel, who won huge acclaim and awards while chef at the former Baratxuri restaurant in Ramsbottom. She has now taken on her first ever acting role in the show.
But it was not too much of a stretch for the professional chef as she plays... a professional chef in the series.
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Rachel, from Prestwich, will be introduced into the action as "Agency chef Rachel" in the Sunday night drama. While the series is set in trendy Dalston in London, it was all filmed in Manchester earlier this year.
The swanky restaurant Point North may look like a real-life restaurant, but it was actually all created from scratch especially for the drama in the vast Space Studios film sets in Gorton. The series follows on from the hit movie Boiling Point which starred Stephen Graham as the head chef Andy Jones heading towards personal and professional meltdown.
The new series leaps ahead by eight months, to follow his former deputy Carly (Vinette Robinson) who is now the chef patron of her own restaurant - having taken most of Andy's former kitchen team with her. But the Point North kitchen team are all actors - apart from real life chef Rachel.
Rachel tells the MEN: "I'm a chef playing a chef so it was all
Charlize Theron is celebrating her glam squad!
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Stephen Graham's been a regular fixture on our screens for years and currently, he and wife Hannah Walters are in four-part drama Boiling Point together. The show, created by Philip Barantani, James Cummings and Stephen, picks up seven months after the film Boiling Point ends. It is a fictional series about a high-pressure restaurant, in which the Head Chef Andy Jones, played by Stephen, 50, turns to drink and drugs after a tough situation in the kitchen.
at the New York City Ballet’s 2023 Fall Gala.On October 5, the arrived at the glamorous event with husband Matthew Broderick wearing a black off-the-shoulder princess dress with bustier cutouts and a flouncy, ankle-length tule skirt, which she accessorized with an oversized black ribbon in her hair, subtle diamond jewelry, and a glittering silver purse. I couldn't help but wonder, has SJP been shopping in the wardrobe department?Somehow the semi-sheer tule skirt was not the most -coded aspect of the ‘fit.
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