Jamie Oliver
- Profession: Celebrity chef
- Place/Date of Birth: Clavering, Essex, 27 May 2020
"Perhaps the tide is at last turning against restaurants that are hyped up so much."
Jamie’s garden affair - Sept 12 2007
Jamie Oliver has apparently admitted that his new passion for growing fruit and veg hasn’t been too popular with wife Jools.
The celeb chef told The Sun: "Jools doesn’t mind being cooked for but she doesn’t really like the garden and has accused me of having an affair with it!"
Jamie says he finds the garden "really therapeutic".
"I love wandering around in the garden, it helps me to dream up new ideas and recipes."
The 32-year-old started gardening as a hobby at his Essex mansion, but his passion soon grew into new TV series Jamie At Home and its accompanying book.
The star reportedly revealed the secret to his successful marriage is that Jools is happy for him to pursue projects while she stays at home with their daughters, Poppy Honey, five, and Daisy Boo, four.
"Jools is mum - she wouldn’t have it any other way, that’s what she wanted," he said.
Jamie Teams Up With R&J - Aug 13 2007
Jamie Oliver is to take a weekly slot on Richard and Judy’s show, offering the king and queen of daytime TV a crash course in cookery.
The celebrity chef and school dinner campaigner will be preparing a selection of innovative summer dishes using natural ingredients over a three-week series.
Jamie will showcase recipes from his forthcoming cook book, Jamie At Home, due to hit shelves in September. On tomorrow’s programme (August 14), Jamie will be cooking courgette carbonara and roast carrot and avocado salad with orange and lemon dressing.
He said: "It’s great to be back on Richard and Judy. Richard is so keen to get stuck in, we always have a laugh. He had a bit of a job on his hands bashing up a load of peas but he’s a decent cook - I know, he’s cooked me lunch."
Man Arrested Over Jamie Threats - July 10 2007
A man has been arrested following threats to celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein from an extremist group.
The threats came via email and were apparently made on behalf of an extremist group in
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The young person’s, modern day Delia, Jamie Oliver catapulted himself to fame following a chance meeting at the River Café, he now commands millions for advertisements, has created a socially aware restaurant empire and influenced what our children eat at school.
Despite his slightly grating, ‘cockney’ accent, our Jamie’s actually a born and bred Essex boy. Having been raised to landlord parents he started working in a professional kitchen at the tender age of 11, when he used to peel the veg for the Sunday Roast at the pub.
He trained at Westminster Catering College and spent some time studying in France. On his return to London he bagged himself a job as head pastry chef at the Antonio Carluccio restaurant on Neal Street, before heading over to Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers gastro-delight The River Café. It was here that he was apparently ‘spotted’, whilst a television crew were in doing a dash of filming, and the result was ‘Naked Chef’ in 1998.
His new, fresh and relaxed approach to presenting and food in general went down a storm with the British public and another series followed shortly after in 1999. Over the years his stake in primetime television has grown with a number of successful programmes, including Jamie’s Kitchen, Jamie’s Great Italian Escape and Oliver Twist.
In 2000 Jamie became the ‘face of Sainsburys’, which saw the chef earn a reputed £1.2 million per year, whilst appearing in rather cringe worthy ads left, right and centre of the television scheduling programme. His over exposure led to a bit of a backlash with caricatures of him springing up on the comedy circuit; think big lips, wads of cash, ‘mockney’ accent and floppy wife.
If the Sainsburys deal signalled a temporary fall from grace for the Essex boy, then the series Jamie’s Kitchen saw him return from the back of the pack to take gold. The programme followed the chef as he launched his flagship Fifteen restaurant in London. Part of a charitable foundation, the business offers training for underprivileged kids and branches have gone on to be launched in Newquay, the Netherlands, Amsterdam and Melbourne.
Jamie’s social conscious doesn’t end there either – in 2005 the geeza chef took on the British education system, with a good, long, hard look at what we were feeding the minds of tomorrow – fat, salt and sugar being the main ingredients. The series signalled a social crisis in parliament and forced the Government to reassess school dinners around the country, with the aim of educating our kids about food and it’s origins, whilst providing them with a well-rounded diet.
In 2003 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
He married Juliette Norton in 2000 and the couple have two daughters.
November 2007