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A trip to 10 Downing Street in 1999 saw Jamie Oliver prepare lunch for Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema.
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Jamie Oliver has turned down multiple magazine offers to pose nude.
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Residing in London with wife Jools Oliver, Jamie Oliver often travels around the city by motorbike.
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The cookbook The Naked Chef, published by Penguin, topped UK bestseller lists for over ten weeks.
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Jamie Oliver serves as food editor for British GQ magazine and writes a regular column for The Saturday Times Magazine.
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At age 16, Jamie Oliver enrolled at Westminster Catering College to complete his formal culinary training.
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Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools have five children: Poppy Honey 2002, Daisy Boo 2003, Petal Blossom Rainbow 2009, Buddy Bear Maurice 2010, and River Rocket 2016.
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A three-year stint at London’s River Café helped shape Jamie Oliver’s culinary expertise.
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In the 2003 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Jamie Oliver was appointed MBE for services to the hospitality industry.
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Dyslexia required Jamie Oliver to spend five years in special needs education during his childhood.
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As of 2016, Jamie Oliver holds the record as the UK’s all-time best-selling nonfiction author.
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With his high school friends, Jamie Oliver drums in the band Scarlet Division, which he describes as a mix of Catatonia and Texas with a harder edge.
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Jamie Oliver’s parents run The Cricketers pub in Cambridge, where he grew up working in the kitchen.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair took notice of Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s School Dinners campaign, leading to a meeting where they discussed Labour support for healthier school meals.
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Jamie Oliver runs his own production company, Fresh One Productions.