James Martin: Saturday Morning chef on meeting Bond star ex Barbara Broccoli 'She won me'

Despite the former couple’s 12-year age gap, he admitted it was “never a problem”.

“For reasons I’ve never understood, my life has been full of headstrong women who, no doubt bored with waiting for me to notice them, have made the first move,” James explained.

“Which is probably just as well, most of them were so obviously out of my league I wouldn’t have given myself a chance.”

He continued: “Meeting Barbara, daughter of the first Bond producer, ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, was unusual to say the least.