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Now, Kitchen Rat gets sent a lot of crappy e-mails every day, but a press release that dropped into the inbox today really takes the biscuit.

"Do you have a taste for good food and wine?" it asks. "If so, you may be more likely to cheat (on your partner)."

Who says?  Those fine upstanding citizens at illicitencounters.com, "the UK's largest extra-marital dating site", that's who.

And how did the website come to this conclusion? It analysed the stated interests of its 310,000 members and 'Food and wine' was at number one, with around 144,000 members. Just below was 'Movies and Cinema' (142,000 members). 

Scientific then.

Funnily enough, "getting your rocks off with Debbie from accounts in the back of your Ford Focus" wasn't mentioned as a main interest of the philanderers on the website.

Hospitality types have some unexpected hobbies and pastimes.

While Gary Rhodes likes pumping iron his chef peers Giorgio Locatelli and Bruce Poole are happiest leaping on motorbikes and hitting the open road.

Hotel chief Sir Rocco Forte competes in Iron man competitions (apparently for fun) and Michel Roux Jr is an accomplished long distance runner.

Chris Scragg former boss of Marston Hotels (now part of QHotels) has his own racing team and Alastair Storey and William Baxter of caterer BaxterStorey have been able to combine business with pleasure feeding staff at the Honda Formula One Team.