A restaurant mentored by television food guru Russell Norman in his BBC show scored just one star in a food hygiene inspection.

A fridge at Desi Fusion – featured on The Restaurant Man show – was found with mouldy and dirty seals, staff were unsure of basic food safety practices and wash hand basins were missing.

The Indian take away in Coventry was picked up on 10 points, which also included contamination risks from raw and cooked food being stored together.

The food hygiene report, released under the Freedom of Information Act, was completed in October by the city council.

Norman followed mum-of-ten Nahida Mahmood as she opened the restaurant the previous June.

The episode of The Restaurant Man, which follows people who ditch their day jobs to enter the trade, was broadcast on BBC2 in February.

Norman said he would “eat her food any day of the week”.

But the project floundered as the full-time social worker Nahida, 52, ignored his suggestions despite not having a firm business plan of her own.