Damian Lewis has been banned from cooking for his vegetarian daughter.

The Homeland star is dad to daughter Manon, 18, and son Gulliver, 16, with his late wife Helen McCrory, and he's revealed his eldest has gone meat-free and will no longer let him make dinner for her because his "vegetarian cooking is poor."

"Yeah, I do cook. I like it. My daughter won't let me cook for her anymore. She's vegetarian and she's become very particular about how she cooks. I bought her an air fryer. My vegetarian cooking is poor. If Manon lets me make something for her, it's probably, it's probably half a big pepper filled with something," he told hosts, Nick Grimshaw and Angela Harnett, during a recent appearance on the Dish podcast.

The 53-year-old actor noted that both his children developed a taste for "adult food" early on, and they became obsessed with Italian chain Carluccio's - so he decided to attempt making an octopus dish for them and it went horribly wrong.

"We made the mistake early on with our kids, or not the mistake, because it's really nice, of just not always feeding them baked beans when they were hungry. Yeah, so they're always trying to eat adult food. But then my two, very young, North London, privileged children developed a taste for Carluccio's. And only Carluccio's," he explained.

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"So, we couldn't go past the Carluccio's with, you know, some snotty five-year-old going, 'Po po. Daddy, let's go in and eat octopus'. So then I decided, that I'm going to cook an octopus myself. And it was terrible," Lewis said.

"I boiled it with salt and shallots, and a bit of white wine or white wine vinegar, and sort of part boiled, part steamed it…That's what it was. It was a drowning octopus. There were a lot of legs," he added.

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