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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Michael Segalov

Sunday with Olly Murs: ‘I’m obsessed with Crunchy Nut cornflakes at the moment’

‘Lunch is a loaf of tiger bread with ham, cheese and crisps’: Olly Murs.
‘Lunch is a loaf of tiger bread with ham, cheese and crisps’: Olly Murs. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage

Sunday morning? I try to lie in, but me and the Mrs are always out of bed by 8.30am, after probably an hour of lazing about.

Sunday food? It’s my cheat day. I eat clean and train all week, so this is my release. I’m obsessed with Crunchy Nut cornflakes at the moment, so that’s breakfast. Lunch is a loaf of tiger bread with ham, cheese and crisps. And then I have whatever is on Bake Off for dinner.

Bake Off? Yeah, we catch up on a Sunday and cook something around it for the evening. We have a pie on pie week. Custard week meant custard tarts. We might have a roast, if Bake Off is dessert-heavy. Our whole weekend revolves around it: we lose all sense of purpose when it’s not on.

Do you work out? I will if I’m not on a rest day. If I’ve been good I can relax, but if not I’ll do a Hiit class: that’s 30-45 minutes of proper sweaty, absolute carnage cardio in our home gym.

Special Sundays? Taking my dad to Manchester United matches. He’s a massive fan, but couldn’t take us when we were kids. It’s far from Essex; we couldn’t afford it. When I got into this industry, one of my first purchases was a box at Old Trafford. Being able to take him means a lot.

A dream Sunday to yourself? McDonald’s for a drive-thru breakfast, then straight to watching my nephew play football before a roast and bed. No drinking: I’m having a booze-free year.

And Sunday night? We’ve got a scratch-off list of the best 100 films, which we’re working our way through. Then I take the dog into the garden for a pre-bed toilet. I might be there for hours, waiting. She’s a right madam. At night she’s on the lead else she’d go nuts hunting rats in the bushes and never come back.

Olly Murs’s new album, Marry Me, is out on EMI Records. His arena headline tour starts in April 2023

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