Dublin born Donal Skehan morphed from being part of a boyband to being recognised as one of the most popular food bloggers after being endorsed by Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver in January 2016. After being one of five members of Streetwize, Skehan became a television presenter and author, unsuccessfully attempted to enter the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest and in 2012 appeared on Junior Masterchef on the BBC alongside John Torode. He married in June 2015 and has 131,000 followers on Instagram and 280,000 subscribers on YouTube.
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I love his simple recipes. He has a sparkle in his eye and he will go far.