Sam Kerridge Wiki, Biography
Sam Kerridge is the brother of Tom Kerridge. is an English Michelin-starred chef who has worked mainly in the United Kingdom. After initially appearing in several small television parts as a child actor, he decided to attend culinary school at the age of 18. He has since worked at a variety of British restaurants, including the Michelin-starred Rhodes in the Square and Adlards.
With his wife Beth Cullen-Kerridge, he opened the pub, The Hand & Flowers in 2005 and within a year gained his first Michelin star. In the 2012 list, he won a second Michelin star, the first time a pub had done so. Tom then went on to open a second pub in Marlow, The Coach, which has also won a Michelin star. More recently Tom opened The Butcher’s Tap (butchers and pub under one roof) and opened his first London restaurant in 2018 at Corinthia Hotel London.
As a chef he has appeared on the Great British Menu, MasterChef and Saturday Kitchen and more recently fronted his own series How to Lose Weight For Good and Top of the Shop, both for BBC. Kerridge presented Bake Off: Crème de la Crème (2016) and currently presents Food and Drink (2015–present), both for BBC Two.
Dad’s influence was minimal – I don’t feel as though I grew up with a father. We didn’t go to football together or take family holidays and I have few childhood memories in terms of family time. That’s partly because Dad was quite solitary, but also because he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when I was six. Towards the end of his life, he was in a wheelchair or bedridden and unable to talk. When Mum and Dad divorced when I was 11, my brother Sam and I visited him once a week, but half the time he didn’t recognise us. It got to the point where he was barely functioning as a person. He died when I was 18, but I’m not bitter about it. We all have obstacles in life to overcome.
When our parents separated, Mum became Mum and Dad to us. She took me to rugby, joining the dads on the sideline, and held down two jobs to support us. Single-parent families weren’t unusual in our neck of the woods and it had no detrimental effect. Mum has undoubtedly been the biggest influence on my life. Even at 71, she still does an early shift at B&Q and helps out as a theatre usher. She just can’t help herself. That work ethic has rubbed off on me. I’ve also inherited her communication skills. She’s good at holding herself in conversation.
I love my younger brother very much, but we are complete opposites. He is quieter – more like my father – although what he does say is profound and often very funny. When we were kids, I would spend all my money on footballs and bikes, whereas Sam was happy in his own company. He isn’t impressed by success.
My wife Beth’s first words to me were, “Will you give me £3 for the stripper?” I was 24 and working as a chef de partie in Soho, when one of my best mates dragged me out to a pub to celebrate his brother’s birthday. Beth was doing a collection for the stripper she had ordered and we hit it off immediately. We knew early on that what we had was special and she asked me to marry her at 1am in Leicester Square just six weeks after we met. I hadn’t seen it coming, but I didn’t hesitate to say yes.
Beth and I have been together 18 years and our marriage is very solid. It works because Beth is her own person. She is strong, determined and doesn’t live her life through me. We also value each other’s opinion. It’s fantastic to have somebody you believe in wholeheartedly, who, when they question something, doesn’t make you doubt their motives. When we do argue, we’re both determined to win, but we don’t fall out very often. Beth is an incredibly talented sculptor, who trained under Sir Anthony Caro, and watching her career take off has been fantastic.
Beth and I took a lot of financial gambles when we opened our Michelin-starred pub, the Hand and Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, and during the strain of that first year Beth left me three times. It was never really serious – she just needed some breathing space. The pressure was compounded by the fact that Beth put her own career on the back burner to help get the pub off the ground, and it has only been in the past two and a half years that she has been able to focus on her sculpting again. I’m so proud of her.
We didn’t make a conscious decision not to have kids. It just hasn’t happened. But it’s not something we regret. And there’s no way we could have reached this high point in our professional careers if we’d had children because they consume your life. That’s not to say never say never. More and more people are having kids in their 40s because they spend their 30s building their careers. But if it never happens, that’s just life.
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