After five decades as an actor, Gregor Fisher has found an unexpected new audience from his kitchen.
The Rab C Nesbitt star has launched his own YouTube cooking series after videos of him preparing food at home attracted millions of views on social media.
Fisher, 72, has been sharing recipes on Instagram after being encouraged to join the platform by his daughter Cissie, despite initially being convinced nobody would be interested in watching him cook.
That changed when one of his earliest videos, showing how he makes traditional tattie scones, was watched more than 2.5 million times.
The success has now persuaded Fisher to take the idea further by moving onto YouTube, where he plans to produce longer cooking videos and tackle more complicated dishes.
Announcing the move, Fisher joked that he had “migrated to the YouTube” and said the longer format meant he would no longer have to rush through recipes to fit them into short Instagram videos.
The new series effectively gives the veteran actor his own online cookery programme, with Fisher preparing dishes from an outdoor kitchen built for him by his son-in-law.
Among the first dishes he is tackling is steak pie, while previous videos have seen him cook everything from macaroni cheese and kedgeree to chicken satay and Scottish favourites.
It is a surprising development for an actor whose career has been dominated by television and comedy for almost half a century.
Fisher became one of Scotland’s most recognisable performers as the string-vest-wearing Rab C Nesbitt, the Govan philosopher whose BBC sitcom ran across ten series between 1988 and 2014.
He has also appeared in Naked Video, Love Actually and a string of television dramas and comedies.
His latest television role was alongside Greg McHugh in BBC sitcom Only Child, in which he played recently widowed father Ken Pritchard.
The series followed Richard, played by McHugh, returning from London to his family home in Scotland and attempting to look after his increasingly unpredictable dad.
Only Child launched in 2024 and returned for a second six-part series in May this year, but Fisher revealed in August that the BBC had decided not to commission a third series.
The actor said he received the news shortly before going on stage for his solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Fisher previously admitted he thought his daughter’s suggestion that he should post cooking videos online was “doomed to failure”. Instead, the reaction has surprised him, with viewers approaching him in supermarkets to tell him they have watched his recipes.