After getting lost in posh shopping haven Harrods while looking for shoes, James stumbled upon the pet department back in the days when the store sold animals.
The barking mad TV star explained the purchase, saying: “I have two dogs – a working cocker spaniel called Cooper and a little Lhasa Apso called Ralph that I bought p***ed from the pet store at Harrods one lunchtime!”
Recalling the incident to Daily Star, he continued: “It was a boozy working lunch, the day before Saturday Kitchen, and I had been celebrating.
“I ended up on the top floor of Harrods thinking I was going to buy a new pair of shoes, but I ended up in the wrong department and saw these two little dogs.
“One of them was really looking at me and I thought, ‘He’s pretty cool’, so I bought him.”
Ralph is now six years old and James loves to post photos of him and his brother Cooper on Instagram.
The 46-year-old cook left the BBC and Saturday Kitchen after 10 years on the show to try new things and “have a lie in at the weekend”.
James decided to quit the presenting role that made him famous after witnessing a man fall to his sudden death.
The traumatic incident forced him to reassess his work-life balance, with James explaining: "I was doing a gig abroad and I was chatting to a gentleman the same age as me with a similar work ethic, really keen on work. He went on stage literally five minutes after I spoke to him to do an awards ceremony and he died before he hit the floor."
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