Profession:Celebrity chef Place/Date of Birth:Clavering, Essex, 27 May 1975
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 Cornwall where the two chefs have restaurants.
Jamie inspired the charitable Fifteen restaurant further up the coast at WatergateBay, near Newquay, to train disadvantaged youngsters to be chefs.And Rick Stein runs his Seafood Restaurant and a number of other businesses in the Cornish port of Padstow - dubbed Padstein by some.
The Cornish Liberation Army (CNLA) said in an e-mail that Jamie would be a target because he was "another incomer who has caused the inflation of house and other living costs at Cornish expense".The group’s "directing council" also said his clients and customers were targets.
The CNLA accused Rick of being seen to "ride over local democracy".
Devon and Cornwall police said that a 36-year-old man from Padstow had been arrested in connection with threats to destroy or damage property.He was arrested on July 4 and had been interviewed and released on police bail until August 14 when he will have to report to Newquay police station.
The police spokesman said officers were conducting parallel inquiries into the alleged threats made to the two chefs.
Jamie congratulates graduating chefs - June 22 2007 Jamie Oliver will today congratulate young chefs who are graduating after a year’s training at the beachside Fifteen restaurant he backed in Cornwall.
The charitable Fifteen Cornwall restaurant opened in May last year to give disadvantaged young people in the county the chance to build a career in the restaurant industry.... read more
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver thinks everything is ’pukka’ which means upper class or well-bred according to my dictionary. He came into my local once, admittedly only to shoot a short scene for his intensely irritating Sainsbury’s TV advertising campaign, which he reputedly trousered a cool million quid for. He’s made lots out of his books as well, which are mostly about cooking. Recently moved to a new home in Hampstead with wife Juliette Norton. Written in 2001
