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Jamie Oliver Net Worth and Biography

Jamie Oliver is a cookbook author and one of the richest chefs in the world, with an estimated net worth of $400 Million.

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Jamie Oliver is a British chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author, he is one of the richest chefs in the world, with an estimated net worth of $400 Million. He is also the most expensive chef in the world, charging as much as $500,000 per event. He has prepared meals for the British Prime Minister and has hosted several cooking-related TV programs, most notably The Naked Chef in the UK.

Bio Data

Full Name James Trevor Oliver
Date of Birth 27 May 1975
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Career Chef
Net worth  $400 Million
Nationality  British

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Biography

Jamie Oliver was born and raised in the village of Clavering in Essex. He attended Newport Free Grammar School, where he left with two GCSE qualifications in Art and Geology.

He also attended  Westminster Technical College now Westminster Kingsway College, where he earned a City & Guilds National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) in home economics.

His parents, Trevor and Sally Oliver ran a pub and restaurant called The Cricketers, where he practiced cooking in the kitchen with his parents.

Career

Jamie Oliver began his beautiful catering career as a pastry chef at Antonio Carluccio’s Neal Street restaurant. He then moved to The River Café, Fulham, as a sous-chef. He was noticed there by the BBC in 1997, after making an unscripted appearance in a documentary about the restaurant, Christmas at the River Cafe.

In 1999, his BBC show The Naked Chef debuted, and his cookbook became a bestseller in the United Kingdom. That same year, Oliver was invited to prepare lunch for then-Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street.

After three series of Naked Chef programs for the BBC, Oliver moved to Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, where his first series was a documentary, Jamie’s Kitchen, Where he  15  young adults who have a disadvantaged background for careers in the restaurant business.

Oliver founded Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, a restaurant chain with a specialization in Italian food in 2008. The company boasted over 40 sites in The United Kingdom   The brand was franchised and includes branches in Australia Canada, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Qatar, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, the UAE, and Singapore.

Under the conglomerate is Oliver’s chain of cooking school/delis, Recipease, and  Barbecoa, a barbecued meat-based restaurant based in London.  The group went into administration on 21 May 2019 with 22 of 25 restaurants closed and 1,000 jobs lost. Two of the restaurants were sold to catering company SSP and the operating Franchises were unaffected.

Honors and Accolades

Jamie Oliver is a recipient of numerous awards and accolades.  In June 2003, Oliver was awarded an MBE for his services to the hospitality industry. He was named the most influential person in the UK hospitality industry in  2005.

Oliver won an Emmy for Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution at the 62nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2010. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal College of General Practitioners for his work in tackling childhood obesity. In 2019, Oliver was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy.

Jamie Oliver’s Net Worth

Jamie Oliver is one of the richest chefs in the world, with an estimated net worth of $400 Million. He is also the most expensive chef in the world, charging as much as $500,000 per event.

As the author of numerous cookbooks, He is the second-best-selling British author, behind J. K. Rowling, and the best-selling British non-fiction author since records began. As of February 2019, Jamie Oliver has sold more than 14.55 million books, generating just under £180m net worth for the chef.

Jamie Oliver also made a fortune from Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group prior to its bankruptcy in 2019. He was also the public face of the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain in the UK for eleven years, appearing on television and radio advertisements and in-store promotional material. The deal earned him an estimated £1.2 million every year.

In August 2013, Oliver and Canadian supermarket chain Sobeys announced a partnership in improving nationwide nutrition and advertising campaigns. He also partnered with the Australian chain Woolworths Supermarkets on a series of better nutrition initiatives and advertising campaigns in the same year.

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