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Ep1: Michael Chakraverty
Bake Off treasure Michael Chakraverty is our first ever guest! He joins Vix Leyton and Paul Watson who rifle through his shopping history, to find out everything from his best ever bargains to his worst rip-offs.
There's a whole gamut of topics on the table from expensive coffee machines to pregnancy tests, the mystery of dehumidifiers, e-mails from Taylor Swift and velvet swimsuits.
And Michael also reveals all the items he nicked from the Bake Off tent because, after all, this show is about getting the best value for money possible (although we must advise for legal reasons that stealing is technically not the same as 'getting value for money').
Michael can be found @mschakraverty on all the socials, plus do check out his podcast Menkind with Mark Watson which is available wherever you got this podcast.
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