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Making food extremely sexy: Roz Purcell wants to open her own restaurant

Roz Purcell has revealed she wants to open her own restaurant – and hopes modelling will help her get it.

The former Miss Universe Ireland said she never planned to make modelling her “main focus” in life and was just a “part-time job during college”.

And the 24-year-old – who won Celebrity Come Dine With Me – wishes that she could give up everything and go work in a restaurant.

She said: “Cooking is like therapy for me. My dad’s a farmer and my mum’s a teacher, and my granny baked constantly.

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“We didn’t have processed food growing up, but the whole family loves baking cakes.

“I’d love to have my own food place, and I’d like to be known for food as much as for modelling.

“Sometimes I wish I could go work in a restaurant, but modelling is what pays the bills.”

And Roz would also like her own cookery TV show in the future, and insisted she does eat her own food.

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“No one wants to hear it when models say ‘I eat whatever I want’. If they can, it’s a real godsend, but most people, including me, really have to work hard to stay in shape,” she told The Insider.

“I want everyone to know how creative you can be, and can make and eat this food without feeling too guilty about it.

“A lot of models took the foodie route, but I think it’s because we had to learn a lot about nutrition in our jobs. Honestly, I want it all in the future.

“A cookery show, my own restaurant, a book. I think modelling definitely gives you more of a launch pad than if you were starting from scratch.”

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