Sunday Brunch star forced to pull out of Channel 4 show last minute
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Sunday Brunch presenter Simon Rimmer was forced to skip the Channel 4’s show’s first outing in 2025. Instead, host Tim Lovejoy, XX, was joined by chef James Golding, who whipped up Simon’s squash salad in his honour.
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Tim explained minutes into Sunday Brunch that Simon, XX, was absent as he was ill with a ‘dodgy tummy.’. He said: ‘Sadly, Simon Rimmer is a bit ill today. He’s got a bit of a dodgy tummy, so he says.’. Gesturing knocking back alcohol, Tim jokingly continued: ‘If you saw him out last night let us know.’.
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Yesterday, Simon reposted Sunday Brunch’s Instagram post announcing the show’s return in the New Year. It read: ‘We’re back tomorrow with our first show of 2025✨at our 🚨NEW START TIME OF 10am🚨⭐️📣 See you there🥂🎤.’. Guests on today’s Sunday Brunch included Ella Maisy Purvis, Gwilym Lee, Lou Sanders, Carrie Hope Fletcher and Dr Rangan Chatterjee.
Simon had a difficult end to 2024 after two of his restaurants vegetarian joint Greens and its sister Sale, both in Manchester, shut. In December, it was then revealed his collapsed restaurant chain owes more than £500,000 to creditors. In a document filed by administrator Begbies Traynor with Companies House, it show sthe most debt is owed to HMRC, with an estimated £458,873 in unpaid VAT and PAYE.
