{"id":52486,"date":"2025-08-08T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52486\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:51:08","slug":"why-jordan-north-nearly-got-kicked-out-of-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52486\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jordan North &#8216;nearly got kicked out of Wimbledon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Speaking to comedian and presenter Tom Allen on Capital Breakfast, presenter Jordan said a joke nearly cost the pair their spot in the crowd\u00a0the tennis championship.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tom said: \u201cI think you&#8217;re actually quite fancy though, aren&#8217;t you, Jordan?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You&#8217;re a bit fancy. He likes nice things really.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI think you like food more than you let on, probably. You go to some nice restaurants. You\u2019ve lived. We first met at Wimbledon, actually.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jordan said Tom\u2019s joke, after the umpire called a ball \u2018out\u2019, almost got them kicked out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jordan said: \u201cWe nearly got thrown out, because we were on the Pimm\u2019s, and the umpire shouted \u2018out,\u2019 and Tom went, \u2018That&#8217;s more out than me!\u2019 and I burst out laughing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tom said: \u201cThat\u2019s a terrible impression of me! Yeah, they\u2019re very strict at Wimbledon.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The chaos didn\u2019t end there on the episode as Jordan, who is currently competing on the show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/25364463.burnleys-jordan-north-appears-cooking-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooking With The Stars<\/a>, challenged Tom, who hosts the ITV cooking show, to a doughnut glazing challenge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jordan spilt cream all over Tom\u2019s trousers during the game, with the comedian due to go on ITV\u2019s This Morning straight after the show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On the show, Jordan went head-to-head with other celebrities in the kitchen. The celebs attempt to go from passionate amateur cooks to restaurant-level chefs, with the help of an accomplished chef mentor.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Under the guidance of Rosemary Shrager, Jordan made his own spicy chicken goujons with crispy polenta chips, white cabbage salad, pear chilli jam and lemon mayonnaise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pressure got to Jordan, who ended up in the \u2018cook off\u2019, risking being eliminated from the competition \u2013 but his own doughnut creations secured him a place in the next stage of the competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0Listen to\u00a0Capital\u00a0Breakfast\u00a0with\u00a0Jordan\u00a0North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby\u00a0weekdays from 6am until 10am across the UK and on\u00a0Global Player\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to comedian and presenter Tom Allen on Capital Breakfast, presenter Jordan said a joke nearly cost the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-52486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}