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Samantha Rea

Sunday with Professor Green: ‘Roast dinner is my only religion’

‘My favourite is beef with all the trimmings’: Professor Green.
‘My favourite is beef with all the trimmings’: Professor Green. Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty Images

What time are you up? Between 6.30am and 7.30am. My son is two and a half, so we’ll change his nappy, then get into bed in his room, with him, for a chinwag and a cuddle – and if we’re lucky, a snooze, then sometimes cartoons.

What’s for breakfast? Eggs, smoked salmon and bagels, or if we eat out, a full English. My son eats most of mine and my partner’s, as well as his own. Occasionally, we venture to London’s Borough Market for Bread Ahead doughnuts. They are so good, they should be illegal.

What makes Sunday special? Roast dinner. It’s my only religion. My favourite is beef with all the trimmings. I hate cheese, but I’ll even make cauliflower cheese because my partner and mates love it – they all come over. On Instagram, I get more likes for my roasts than my music.

Sundays growing up? My nan always made a roast, which is probably why I’ve got such a love for it. She’d do chicken or beef, but she’d cheat with Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puddings – she’ll kill me for saying that. My nan worked three jobs and there were six of us living in a three-bedroom flat. It was a low income household so there wasn’t much variety in what we ate. The roast was a highlight because it was break from the beige food. I shared a room with my nan and on Sunday mornings I’d run into the living room and jump under my great-grandmother’s blue blanket. She used to sleep there, in an armchair that folded into a bed.

Bedtime wind down? We might have a family bath, all together, then books before bedtime. We end up in bed around the same time as our son does, which is about 7.30pm or 8pm. It’s embarrassing for a rock’n’roll rapper, but I appreciate sleep more than anything nowadays.

Professor Green is working with Three UK and data inclusion charity Good Things Foundation to raise awareness of digital poverty (goodthingsfoundation.org)

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