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As Marco Pierre White once said of Oliver - " He is just a fat cook with a drum kit ".

Never was a top chef, a total media product. His so called restaurants are no more than a deli.

Janet Street Porter said this week - " Jamie has charged restaurant prices, for simple food he has shown us on Tv to make for a 10th of the price " .
Marco Pierre White is cool. I loved his speech at Cambridge or Oxford. A proper rags to riches story and someone who has worked very hard and had a little bit of luck along the way. He is also quite unpretentious about food which I like. I like that he admits a lot of it is bollocks and just about enjoying food in a nice atmosphere. You can apply the same to a lot of things. We like to dress it up, but it is still just a dress to be worn.
His gaff down here is shite. Stepson went for his 30th and thought is was pants too. Think he has lost it a bit. You can't deny his 3 Michelin stars and giving them back but I am not sure he is quite the same anymore

There was a post on here years ago from someone who lived in Leeds or somewhere across the road and knew him and his family as a kid. It was very funny.