CELEBRITY chef Andrew Nutter believed he lived up to his name when he accepted an invite to star on the television quiz show, The Weakest Link.

Andrew, who owns Nutters Restaurant in Edenfield, starred in a celebrity chef edition of the show which is fronted by TV's hard woman Anne Robinson.

He told the Bury Times: "It was the most daunting and nervous thing I have ever had to do. I was on the show to raise money for Christie Hospital so I pleased to have done it for that -- but I wouldn't put myself through it again.

"I've been on television, but this was the scariest thing ever."

Filming took place in late January, and the show is to be screened later this month.

Describing Anne Robinson as "terrifying", the chef, who is originally from Prestwich, said: "If I was to describe her as a type of food, it would be Bury's black pudding! She dresses in black and looks like she has been struck round the head with one!

"She comes onto the stage, there is no 'hello' and she is very cold. At first I thought she liked me as she paid a number of compliments and then, all of a sudden, she turned on me."

So nervous was Andrew on the show that he and fellow chefs failed to answer a number of easy food questions.

"The questions seemed so easy that we thought they must be trick questions," he said.