The last thing that Emma D’Arcy expected to become was a meme.
25.09.2022 - 10:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Paparazzi don’t tend to swarm to Levenshulme - no massive necessity, really - but back when Malanie Tillekeratne worked at Scott’s in Mayfair, she’d have to scrap her way through the scrum on a regular basis as she left work of an evening. Paps would gather at the upscale fish restaurant, where Malanie worked as a pastry chef, to catch a glimpse of some of the celebrities who would be sucking down oysters and champagne inside.
“You’d see Tom Hanks, everyone,” he says, chatting - she likes a chat - outside Isca, the natural wine shop and restaurant on Stockport Road where she and her husband Michael are hosting one of their regular supper clubs. “You’d come out and they’d be snapping and flashing, then they’d realise it was just a chef, and they’d just stop straight away!”
They call themselves The Little Sri Lankan. Malanie is little, and Sri Lankan, so it all makes a lot of sense. She was born in Colombo, and moved to the UK when she was four. She met Michael, also a classically-trained chef, through a dating website when she was studying hospitality management in Bournemouth. He saw she was a chef too, so they met up for a drink and have been together ever since.
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The Little Sri Lankan is perhaps as far from the glitz and glam of Scott’s as you can get. This is proper home cooking, much of it derived from the recipes passed through Malanie’s family, and inimitable Marion,
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House Of The Dragon stars Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke have teased how their characters Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower have changed in the transition to adulthood.In the sixth episode of the Game Of Thrones prequel, set to premiere on Sunday on HBO, the show will jump forward a decade with D’Arcy and Cooke in the roles of Rhaenyra and Alicent, previously played by Milly Alcock and Emily Carey respectively.Speaking to NME about if the characters have changed over 10 years, Cooke said: “They have changed a lot. Think about yourself when you were 18, it feels like such a far away, different person.
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