The crush: Tom Sellers

Hey, what’s cookin’, good-lookin’?

We can’t decide what makes us swoon over 26-year-old superchef Tom Sellers more: his pot-stirringly buff arms, his Beckhamesque tattoos, the fact he was expelled from school, that permanent ‘Can you make this quick, I’ve got a soufflé in the oven’ scowl, or the tantalising food he creates.

Maybe it’s more that since opening his new restaurant, Story, in April, it has been fully booked every night and no amount of begging, crying or pretending to be Taylor Swift is going to make the nice front-of-house lady give us a table before Christmas. Crush loves it but hates it, but hates it but loves it that our new fantasy foodie is so in demand.

Before Story, he worked at all our favourite restaurants we’ve never been to (Noma, The French Laundry, Tom Aikens), and ‘Yes, chef!’, we’re totally up for ditching the 5:2 diet for a Sellers-style feast of scallops, cucumber and dill ash, mackerel, mermaid’s hair and strawberry. What’s mermaid’s hair? Who cares! Ariel’s locks are sure to taste delicious with Tom’s magic touch.