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"Delia Smith has announced her retirement from TV cookery shows. The 71-year-old has decided to step back from television work following the end of her contract to promote supermarket chain Waitrose, the Radio Times reports.  &amp;quot;As soon as my Waitrose contract ended, the BBC called me up and said, &amp;#039;What can we do?&amp;#039; And I said, &amp;#039;No, thank you&amp;#039; - I am afraid to say this is the end when it comes to Delia on the telly,&amp;quot; said Smith. The television host and author will now focus on her online cooking tutorial series Delia Online Cookery School - citing television&amp;#039;s need to &amp;quot;entertain&amp;quot; as one of the reasons for her retirement from the medium. &amp;quot;If you do a TV programme now, it&amp;#039;s got to entertain,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;When I started, there was further education in the BBC; now you have to entertain. You have someone telling me I haven&amp;#039;t got time to show this, or I haven&amp;#039;t got time to show that.&amp;quot; Smith first rose to fame hosting cookery show Family Fare between 1973 and 1975. Her last television work was the five-part 2010 retrospective Delia Through the Decades. &amp;gt; Waitrose to launch online video hub dedicated to food Watch a classic Delia Smith cooking clip below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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