Jack Rooke

But I think I was born on my eldest brother's 21st birthday.

I was raised as a kid quite solo, which is why I'm a bit of a spoiled brat.

But I would really have to say that the dish that I remember the most is my dad coming in drunk from the pub and making rounds upon rounds of cheese on toast under the grill with loads of Liam Perrins sauce and loads of black pepper and like thick cheese.

And then going into the living room and watching like the Catherine Tate show.

or Michael McIntyre or Mock the Week or Have I Got News For You?

I can really remember watching comedy with him with slabs of bread and cheese.

Yeah, just the best.

I had just turned 15.

Yeah, it was too young.

He was 55.

Very young, yeah.

And it was quite unexpected.

He was ill and then we didn't really know what was wrong with him and then he was diagnosed with cancer and he died ten days later.

Shit.

It was that rapid.

No, none of us were ready.

None of us had really spoken about what to do or what the plans were.

And I think that's something that I always, you know, try and speak about grief quite a lot because we never got a chance beforehand to sort of access the scale of it, even just the admin involved in it.

But I think, you know, it's sort of what's like inspired all of my work up until maybe like Sunday.

You know, I don't think I'm going to write about grief again.