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Meet the latest British celebrity chef.

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Introducing Jamie Oliver He is the latest celebrity chef to create culinary controversy in this food revolution but who exactly is Jamie Oliver and why is he telling us what to eat? A big star in his native Britain where Gordon Ramsay is known as a man with a Michelin stars and foul-mouthed, Jamie is famed for his charitable campaigns. Leaving school at 16 to go to Catering College, Jamie is working at a well respected British-Italian Restaurant when he was discovered by a BBC producer. He soon stepped out of the kitchen and on to the TV screen starring in his own cookery series called the “Naked Chef” but Jamie wasn’t content to stop there. He opened a restaurant “Fifteen” to help underprivileged kids start a career in catering, putting his own home up as collateral for the venture. Today, there are four of his 15 charity restaurants all helping problem kids sort themselves out. Next, Jamie turned his attention to food in schools, marginal campaign to get kids eating better, meeting Prime Minister Tony Blair and Prince Charles about the issue. When some parents fought against his healthy eating schools campaign, he took them on too, attempting to get families cooking more healthy food at home and now his stateside, turn a champion healthy eating in West Virginia. It’s a big challenge but you wouldn’t bet against him.