Jamie Oliver
- Profession: Celebrity chef
- Place/Date of Birth: Clavering, Essex, 27 May 2020
The restaurant profits will go to Cornwall Foundation of Promise. The organisation was established to support, train and guide young people in their bid to become top class chefs.
Jamie, 32, is best known for his role in campaigning against unhealthy foods in British schools. He is also known for TV shows like The Naked Chef and Jamie’s Kitchen.
Jamie and Jools ’most natural couple’ - April 19 2007
Jamie Oliver has added another award to his collection - but this one’s not for his cooking.
The TV chef and his wife Jools have been voted
The Olivers beat daytime TV hosts Richard and Judy to the title, with Prince Charles and Camilla in third.
At the other end of the scale, singer Michael Jackson and one-time wife Lisa Marie Presley were chosen as the least natural couple, followed by Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik and Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irimia.
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline also featured among the least likely couples.
Jamie, 31, met former model Jools in 1993 and the couple married in 2000. They have two children, Poppy Honey, five, and Daisy Boo, four, and the family frequently feature in Jamie’s TV shows and cookery books.
Relationship expert Dr Pam Spurr said: "It’s no surprise that the Olivers have come out top.
"Jamie’s down-to-earth personality, paired with Jools being perceived as a supportive partner, gives them fantastic appeal."
Jamie lands whopping book deal? - April 17 2006
Jamie Oliver has apparently landed a £2.5 million deal to write his autobiography.
The celebrity chef, 31, will spill the beans on cooking for Prime Minister Tony Blair and his school dinners campaign, the Daily Mirror reports.
It’s thought to be the biggest book deal ever for a TV chef and one of the highest offers for a celebrity’s life story.
A friend of Jamie’s told the paper: "Jamie feels it is the right time to bring out his book.
"He has achieved more than most celebrities who write autobiographies."
Jamie’s spokesman said: "He’s keen to tell his story the way it happened."
The down-to-earth chef has sold more than 10 million cook books worldwide and is apparently planning another to be released in time for this Christmas.
Jamie’s School Dinners picked up a Bafta award last year for best factual series.
TV chef offers reward over robbery - April 16 2007
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has offered a £150,000 reward to help police catch the robbers who stole £10,000 from the pub where he grew up.
Five men armed with baseball bats and hammers raided The Cricketers at Clavering,
The gang attacked at around 11pm on Sunday as the pub was closing and made off with cash from a till and a safe.
A spokesman for the chef said Oliver, on a business trip in
He added: "He is angry. He grew up in the pub and first started to learn to cook there.
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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