Special guests and celebrities

Celebrity chef, presenter and cookery book author Phil Vickery has been part of the This Morning family for over 20 years. Phil began his career as a Commis Chef at The Burlington Hotel in Folkestone and worked his way up the ranks to become Head Chef at The Castle Hotel in Taunton, where he won a Michelin star.

Phil’s first television appearance came after he was invited to fill in for Keith Floyd on the Breakfast Programme and since then he has appeared on Ready Steady Cook, Phil Vickery’s Pudding Club and Save Money, Good Diet for which Phil also wrote an accompanying cook book.

Phil is also a leading authority on gluten-free products and the National Food Ambassador for Coeliac UK, plus food for a diabetic diet. He has written 17 books on many subjects from pork to game, to desserts, food for diabetics and more.

Phil will give a culinary demonstration and take part in a Q&A on board.

Enjoy crafting classes on board with Julie Peasgood and the ‘Supercrafters’ with projects that could include mosaics, book bouquets, frames and jewellery.

Julie has a multi-faceted career as an actress in three of UK’s top soaps: Emmerdale, Brookside and Hollyoaks, and is also a TV presenter, award-winning author, and events host.

Television presenter, company director and former public relations consultant, Nick Hewer will give three talks during this cruise. Nick moved to London in the 1960s to join a PR consultancy as a trainee. Within six years he had joined the board and eventually bought out the owner. In 1983, Nick’s PR consultancy added the Amstrad Group, founded by Alan Sugar, to its client list. Following his retirement in 2004, Nick was persuaded by Lord Sugar to join him as an advisor on BBC One’s The Apprentice. Then, in 2012, Nick took over as host of the Channel 4 game show Countdown. Nick has a host of television credits including, Have I Got News For You? Who Do You Think You Are? and Would I Lie to You?, BBC’s Bake Off and The Pilgrimage.

Diana Moran is television’s original fitness guru, the Green Goddess. One of the original presenters to launch BBC Breakfast Television in 1983, she spearheaded the fitness awareness of the 80’s. Diana is an all-round television and radio personality with a career that has spanned four decades. For over four years she wrote a weekly page in The Lady Magazine, and was an agony aunt on The Wireless, a DAB radio station for grownups. Diana has published 16 health related books and has appeared in many fitness videos and DVDs. In 2019 Diana was thrilled to receive the B.E.M in the Queen’s Birthday Honours Awards for her dedicated lifelong work with charities. Diana will give four on-board talks during this cruise.