EastEnders icon accidentally made ‘toxic’ dinner – and it could have k.i.l.l.e.d her

The TV soap star said her husband had never been kind about her cooking skills - and was likely to be even less so after she tried to feed him daffodils

Michelle Collins and husband

Michelle Collins nearly poisoned her husband, Mike Davidson(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images)

TV star Michelle Collins has revealed how she once rustled up a ‘toxic’ dinner after mistaking DAFFODILS for spring onions in the supermarket.

The 63-year-old, best known for playing Cindy Beale in EastEnders, said she was making dinner for herself and hubbie Mike when she made the bungle. She said she snapped up the daffs – which contain the highly toxic chemical lycorine, which causes nausea and vomiting, and even d.e.a.t.h – thinking they were spring onions.


Speaking this week, she said that hubby Mike Davidson, 41 – who she married in 2022 – had never ‘been kind’ about her cooking skills.


Michelle Collins

The Eastenders’ star mistook spring onions for daffodils(Image: Getty Images)

The mum-of-one, who was eliminated from Celebrity Masterchef in 2021 after a ‘disaster’ making flatbread and hummus, said it was ‘understandable’ that Mike was wary of her cooking.

Talking about her relationship with Mike, she said: “There’s more than 20 years between us, so I was a ‘cougar’.

“I hate that word. We get on, we support each other, he makes me laugh. Isn’t that more important?

Ian and Cindy Beale

The actress plays Cindy Beale in Eastenders(Image: CREDIT LINE:BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron)

“Having said that, he has never been very kind about my cooking.


“Understandable, really…once I made a stir-fry with daffodils, thinking they were spring onions.”

Speaking about the incident previously, she said she had bought the daffs after they were placed near the veggie aisle of a supermarket.

 

She said: “Chopped it up, put it in the wok, had a few tastes, the next thing – I was running to the loo and was violently, violently sick.”

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