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Nicole Scherzinger and I are bonding – over gravy. 

The glossy singer, dancer and TV presenter, who became a household name as part of the Pussycat Dolls before a three-season stint as a judge on The X Factor, is firmly in my camp when it comes to portion sizes, too. 

‘People would ask me: “Would you like some Sunday roast with that gravy?”’ she laughs of her time spent in London, which she recalls as an exotic epicurean adventure. 

‘Gravy is probably one of my favourite smells in the world,’ she says dreamily, before rattling off a list of her other beloved British treats: fish and chips, sticky toffee pudding, banoffee pie… ‘Y’all have a lot of good pies,’ she enthuses.