If you think someone's put on a bit of weight it's never a good idea to mention it. If you haven't got anything nice to say then don't say anything at all, right? Errrm, not if you're an Aussie hack, no. That's exactly what happened to Jamie Oliver during his trip Down Under yesterday - and funnily enough he didn't take too kindly to the comment.
The TV chef - who is on the promo trail in Australia where he has opened a new restaurant and is plugging his Ministry of Food - was asked by an Aussie journalist if he'd put on weight since his last visit to Oz. As you do.
A visibly peeved Jamie replied: "I don't know. I think the last time I had a filling in my teeth, which was quite recently, I was in good nick. But really, I am not really sure.
"Are you from a tabloid? Thanks for noticing, you b**ch."
Touche!
It's obviously a touchy subject for Jamie who had admitted earlier in the week that he needed to focus on his own health and fitness.
"I do my best," he said "Working in the food business is quite hard when someone is constantly asking you to try things. I eat fresh, I train twice a week. I could definitely do better, but I am trying to do my best, like most people when they hit 30."
To these eyes at least, we think he's looking just fine. Sticks and stones Jamie, sticks and stones.
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If you think someone's put on a bit of weight it's never a good idea to mention it. If you haven't got anything nice to say then don't say anything at all, right? Errrm, not if you're an Aussie ha...
If you think someone's put on a bit of weight it's never a good idea to mention it. If you haven't got anything nice to say then don't say anything at all, right? Errrm, not if you're an Aussie ha...
If you think someone's put on a bit of weight it's never a good idea to mention it. If you haven't got anything nice to say then don't say anything at all, right? Errrm, not if you're an Aussie ha...
If you think someone's put on a bit of weight it's never a good idea to mention it. If you haven't got anything nice to say then don't say anything at all, right? Errrm, not if you're an Aussie ha...
jamie has been training twice a week ever thought its just muscle he has gained??as a chef myself for 30 years i can tell you that you don't have time too eat and yes you do have to taste a teaspoon of different foods if you went out somewhere and it tasted bland then you would be the first too moan,and while i worked as events chef here and abroad your on the go all the time weather in the kitchens or in meetings etc,there isn't that much time in the day to do anything so jamie is lucky to train even twice a week,on some events i would work over a 100 hours in a week,so we don't all get time too do as others do and with all the travelling etc as well its not easy to fit in normal life,i enjoy it but its not an easy life jamie has done a lot of good for our country and others and also given people jobs at fifteen when others wouldn't touch them so for all you moaning what have you done for the country??at least he has got off his backside and tried to change things for the better
sjjb: jamie has been training twice a week ever thought its
thanks we don't even know he said this either not seen anything on his own twitter account about it nor on youtube,if anyone wants too look at pictures of jamie all they have to do is look on @jamieoliver on twitter and they will see he looks no different when he was in oz last week to how he looked before,i really do think some of the press ones were just bad angles
sjjb: thanks we don't even know he said this either not
Jamie Oliver is certainly overweight (lets be honest he is fat) and it’s a bit rich him calling the reporter names when she asked about his weight especially as he is banging on to all and sundry in the UK about healthy eating, tackling obesity and keeping fit etc. He is very quick to find an excuse for his weight but yet for us mere mortals who maybe overweight, he is now trying to educate us, as according to him it is because we eat too much, wrong food and not enough exercise! Now Jamie perhaps these are the reasons you have put on weight?
devilliers44: Jamie Oliver is certainly overweight (lets be honest he is
That is your opinion, which you are entitled to, like everybody else. You and I will just have to beg to differ I think he is fat or call it overweight, I don't have any recent photo's other than the photo's on the website and to me, he looks huge, still lets comprise and give him the benefit of the doubt, it is a bad photograph that makes him look big.
devilliers44: That is your opinion, which you are entitled to, like
just look on jamie's own twitter account @jamieoliver and he has posted pictures of himself in oz and many will see he is just the same as he has been for at least the last 10 years,he isn't fat he works out he may of put on more muscle but he is by no means fat and as he said he eats all fresh food as well just how many on here do all that and run places all over the world that his has built himself??
sjjb: just look on jamie's own twitter account @jamieoliver and he
Normally, I'd be saying good for him and what business was it of hers. However, in Jamie's case, he's made quite a bit of money and a lot of his later career, lecturing the rest of us about how we're lazy, fat, unhealthy slobs and need to listen to his wisdom to get ourselves together. So, it's a tad hypocritical of him.
Of course, we haven't seen the event and everything in this kind of thing depends on tone. He could very well have said it in a jokey, lighthearted way.
DKLabRat: Normally, I'd be saying good for him and what business
I LOVE it! I was once married to a man from the state of Georgia, USA. That was also a convict destination, and if you ask me, the gene pool carries a whole lot of unattractive qualities, most of them gathered into one distasteful package known as my ex-husband. (Like his criminal forebears, he was a master of manipulation, so for a while, I believed he was a decent human being.) While I had the good sense not to remind him of his state's heritage while we were married...well, since the divorce, I get no end of pleasure in reminding people that Georgia was a penal colony. BTW, I suspect someone will get on the PC bandwagon about you and me...Criminal descendants' rights? LOL.
Fanned and faved.
andwhatarmy: I LOVE it! I was once married to a man
I Like Jamie Oliver - but come on. How whole mantra is on body weight/healthy eating. If you put it out, as he does - he has to be able to take it. And, regardless of the food that he is eating, and if it is healthy or not, being overweight carries its own problems - which he has made, quite literally, millions by pushing both here and in the US.
Btw, I would take aus over brits any day - more relaxed, fitter and less uptight ;)
avam2009: I Like Jamie Oliver - but come on. How whole
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First Posted: 8/03/2012 16:57 Updated: 8/03/2012 16:57