Jamie Oliver describes ‘frightening’ Harry Styles at his home on The Graham Norton Show

Jamie Oliver has recalled an incident with pop singer Harry Styles, when the former One Direction singer was “frightened” at Oliver’s home.

The famous chef recounted this anecdote during his appearance on the BBC talk show The Graham Norton Show.

Host Graham Norton began by asking Oliver: “Harry Styles was frightened in your house, wasn’t he?”

“Sort of, yes,” he responded. The story in question took place “many years ago”, when the “Watermelon Sugar” artist was attempting to buy a home.

“ He was looking for a house, many years ago, and looked around our house, when we use to live in Primrose Hill,” Oliver recalled. “But he didn’t realise that my daughters were his biggest fans, and I had stolen a life-sized version of him [that was] in one of the rooms.

He continued: “I thought, ‘Well, fill your boots, have a look around, see if you like [the flat].’ And he went around, but obviously in the room that he went in with this big thing [the cardboard cutout’… we had the baby monitor, and we could see that he just [jumps back in surprise].”

The anecdote prompted laughter from Norton and the studio audience.

Jamie Oliver on ‘The Graham Norton Show’ (left) and singer Harry Styles (right) (BBC/Getty)

“He probably thought it was a mirror,” Oliver added. “The girls didn’t find out until he’d gone. Didn’t even get an autograph.”

Asked whether Styles then put in an offer to buy the house, Oliver laughed: “No, he wasn’t interested.”