Pukka result: Jamie Oliver crowned best celebrity chef of all time

Jamie Oliver aka The Naked Chef has beaten Delia Smith and Gordon Ramsay to be voted the best celebrity chef of all time
Nations favourite: Jamie Oliver (Picture: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)
Emma Powell13 March 2015

Jamie Oliver, who found fame with the moniker The Naked Chef, has been voted the best celebrity chef of all time.

The 39-year-old father of four beat Delia Smith who took second place and third placed F-word star Gordon Ramsay to take the lovely jubbly title.

Members of the British public voted him into the top spot with his recipes named the easiest to follow and his cook books the most likely to be found on the nation’s bookshelves.

A spokesman for The Hundred-Foot Journey, starring Helen Mirren, which commissioned the research said: “Jamie Oliver became popular soon after his first TV show debuted thanks to his boy-next-door personality and easy to follow recipes.

“And despite a host of other celebrity chefs arriving on the scene over the last decade, Jamie is still at the top of his game and the nation’s favourite.

“Thanks to people like Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay, cooking has seen a resurgence over the past few years with books from celebrity chefs constantly in the top books list.

“They have made cooking something which people now enjoy, rather than something which is a means to an end each evening.

“Many are even putting the increase in the number of men cooking down to the popularity of celebrity chefs."

Other famous faces on the list include Nigella lawson, Heston Blumenthal and The Great British Bake Off star Mary Berry.

Top 10:

  1. Jamie Oliver
  2. Delia Smith
  3. Gordon Ramsay
  4. Keith Floyd
  5. Nigella Lawson
  6. Heston Blumenthal
  7. Mary Berry
  8. Fanny Cradock
  9. James Martin
  10. Raymond Blanc

The survey was commissioned to coincide with the Blu-ray and DVD release of The Hundred-Foot Journey (courtesy of Entertainment One).

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