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“I looked at different products we could do, and the marshmallows were the most fun to develop.”
“I'm not interested in publicity for myself.”
“I feel dyslexia is a strong point in me now. I usually joke that it's like a superpower - you only have it if you've got it!”
“When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'”
“Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level out.”
“Celebrations are great fun: bunting and this and that and the other.”
“My family is usually the first guinea pigs to try out my new recipes.”
“The great British public is renowned throughout the world for its sense of humour.”
“I want to be the best uncle possible, like any uncle wants to be.”
“My parents started Party Pieces the same year I was born, so I have grown up with their entrepreneurial way of thinking, which, to me, became the norm.”
“Marriage is absolutely not something I'm scared of, but it isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all.”
“I have great childhood memories of my mother baking, and I was always a willing participant, especially if it meant I could revarnish the kitchen floor with treacle.”
“For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.”
“At the end of the day, whether it was in a little church or Westminster Abbey didn't matter: it was me, as a brother, doing a reading for my sister and her husband at their wedding, and I wanted to do it right.”
“I want to be the cool uncle, the fun uncle.”
“I work incredibly hard - just like every other person in business and work. And aside from the fact of, yes, I am the brother of someone very important, I am, at the end of the day, just James.”
“We're a really close family. And actually, we see each other and speak on the phone all the time... the odd Sunday lunch, or pop in for coffee or something like that.”
“I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.”
“I'm very proud of my dyslexia. I wouldn't have it any other way. It sits absolutely with what I do, how I think, and who I am.”
“I still see Prince George as my nephew, and I just want to be the best uncle possible.”