Denise Van Outen cooks for Diana Ross at Cambridge Club Festival

TV presenter Denise Van Outen came to Diana Ross's rescue at the weekend - helping to cook her a meal after her set at a festival.

The veteran singer, who headlined The Cambridge Club Festival, was reportedly unable to get the food she wanted backstage.

So, with an hour's notice, TV chef Tristan Welch, from local restaurant Parkers Tavern, devised a five-star menu in the back of a taxi and picked up the ingredients on his way to the festival.

Following her earlier set, Van Outen - who was DJing at the event - swapped her decks for dishes to help create the gourmet selection of Ross's favourites.

The menu included an heirloom tomato and chervil salad, Caesar salad, steak with sauteed new potatoes and tender stem broccoli, and a lemon sole with samphire, nut-brown butter.

Van Outen said: "When I heard Miss Ross needed feeding I knew there ain't no mountain high enough - I had to get there to feed my idol.

"How many people can say they have cooked for such an icon?"

Van Outen, from Basildon in Essex, and Welch appeared together on ITV's Cooking With The Stars in 2021.

They teamed up with Gilbert Holmes, executive head chef at The Ned - the hospitality partner to the festival - to create the meal.

In a nod to another of the star's famous hits, Mr Welch said: "When I got the call to come to the rescue and cook for Diana Ross, I said to myself 'stop - in the name of food!' I couldn't let her go hungry!"

The Cambridge Club Festival 2022 took place over three days from Friday to Sunday, welcoming 25,000 festival-goers, and included other headliners such as Level 42, Nile Rogers and Chic, and The Jacksons.

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