Jamie Oliver

[Andy]

I think this guy gets a lot of unfair stick and with recent projects has proved that he actually cares about the state of the UK today.

With the 15 project he tried to get kids of the streets (sucessfully) and with the School Dinners project he is trying to stop kids from eating the junk that is put in front of most of them and eat decent food which will help them in a number of ways. From watching the program and the feedback that the teachers give him you can see that the kids who have eaten at least SOME green stuff for the first time in their lives are more attentive, less boisterous, generally happier and hopefully with less medical conditions later in life.

Personally i think the guy deserves a Knighthood for everything he is currently trying to do. He was on the Parkinson TVshow tonight asking people to sign his petition that he is taking to Tony Blair next week to try and get rid of the rubbish food that is served in current school canteens. I for one will be adding my name to the list!

If you are interested in participating in the petition please go to http://www.feedmebetter.com/ for further details.

Andy

*End of Rant....*

[skuzgib]

I commend his efforts on this whole school dinners thing, but I STILL find him annoying.

[Andy]

I commend his efforts on this whole school dinners thing, but I STILL find him annoying.

[iMc]

I've always like him. Seems like a genuine sorta blokey.

[tom deloford]

Personally i think the guy deserves a Knighthood for everything he is currently trying to do

He is getting paid though, its difficult to judge whether he is that genuine or he gets carried away by his own ego, I'm not gonna judge him coz I dont know the bloke but it is a bit suspicious seeing as he is making an absolute fortune out of "ooking like hes "being a good samaratan". Do you know what I mean?

[shiato storm]

i thinki hes out to do good. he risks his own marrage often enough. i reckon hes a genuinely top bloke

[tom deloford]

i thinki hes out to do good. he risks his own marrage often enough. i reckon hes a genuinely top bloke

Do you think his wife shares this view?

[iranu]

He is getting paid though, its difficult to judge whether he is that genuine or he gets carried away by his own ego, I'm not gonna judge him coz I dont know the bloke but it is a bit suspicious seeing as he is making an absolute fortune out of "ooking like hes "being a good samaratan". Do you know what I mean?

mmmmmn...... no. I think if you see the last programme in the series where he breaks down on camera and seeks solace in the walk in freezer/pantry you would change your mind. btw how exactly is he making an absolute fortune by "being a good samaritan"? Me thinks someone hasn't watched the series. Correct me if I'm wrong.


Personally, I thought JO was a breath of fresh air when he started but after a while the mockney g*t simply annoyed me (over exposure?) especially his speech impediment. Anyone with his cash should be able to get that fixed, eh?

However, after watching JO's school dinners I respect and admire the bloke tbh. I do think he is genuine and hopefully he will change things for the better. Good luck to him. I did sign his petition before I saw this thread. Channel4 have a forum where you can comment here

http://community.channel4.com/eve/ub...m/f/4890059651

[tom deloford]

mmmmmn...... no. I think if you see the last programme in the series where he breaks down on camera and seeks solace in the walk in freezer/pantry you would change your mind. btw how exactly is he making an absolute fortune by "being a good samaritan"? Me thinks someone hasn't watched the series. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes youre wrong. Me thinks someone is all sucked in by it.. check out this quote from bbc news story about the british rich list:

Jamie Oliver, 29, who took a City & Guilds NVQ in Home Economics, is the youngest on the list and doubled his financial value from £10m last year.

hopefully he will change things for the better

Yea and Im hoping for world peace and free love (especially the free love)

As I said before I do not want to judge him coz I don't know him even if I have seen him breaking down on tv. It is possible that is all part of an act to make money though, and you shouldnt decide based on watching a few tv programs.

Anyway I dont really care, good luck to him, in fact I hope its all a big cockney mockney good samaratin act and hes really an astute business-man caching in on a slighly needy and gullible mass of "people" slumped moronically on their couch saying stuff like "yea - hes right you know, school food is rubbish!" as they tuck into their microwave shepards pie from asda. Lol

Ps iranu thats a class name. Nice one. I take it thats from Shooting Stars?

[rox0r]

I think he deserves nothing but credit for what he's trying to achieve. You can tell that he's passionate about these things and actually does care. On the first school dinners when he saw what the kids were being fed he was somewhere in between furious and tearful.

[Elmo]

Whether he was being paid for it or not, he's STILL doing it! noone else is! he's quite clearly passionate about it, so whether he's being paid for it or not is beside the point. He doesnt want his children being brought up with the slop that some of us did. So if it *DOES* change the school dinners that children are being fed, then tbh, i think it's all good.

on a side note, 37p per portion is bloody awful, thats 2 carrots and a potato (of decent quality) - anything more than that for that price clearly has something wrong with it!

[tom deloford]

Ok , fine you buy the whole thing, but personally I think you're all a bit naive to believe an act you see on tv.

so whether he's being paid for it or not is beside the point

Get real, of course its a valid point. If mother teressa made 10million a year ppl might have looked at her slightly different.. philanthropy is extremely rare, if it exists at all.


Yes he "looks" like he's doing this all out of the goodness of his heart, but he's not, like most philanthropists there are other motives too, the fact is that his "good samaratin", all round "my best mockney buddy" has made him a multi millionaire.

Just be a bit more cynical ppl, all Im saying is that it is possible that his motives are not driven purely by "the kids". They might be, but I'm not so sure as you.

I like him though.

[Elmo]

ok, so he's getting paid to do a job, like anyone who has a job. He also runs a restaurant which would be where the most part of his money comes from, along with all his other cookery programs, so saying he's getting £10M for this one series is YOU being naive.

If you ahd a job, that you were getting paid for, is it so wrong to be passionate about it? Are you not allowed to put your heart and soul into a job you really believe in even if you ARE being paid for it?

Cut him some slack, he's doing more about the issue than you are, he has the power to change things for children in the long run.

If you could try to be slightly LESS cynical rather than trying to persuade us to be MORE so, you might actually see the whole point of the project.

[Firelord]

Think his a top guy in a relatively arrogant and BS field.

Compare him to the likes of Gordan Ramsey and how much of a t**t that bloke is!

I have really enjoyed his latest series and totally back his campaign. The fact that he cares is a huge thing and with a campaign backed by a celebrity of his calibre then it deserves to make a huge impact

[Stewart]

I like Gordon Ramsey, he's a blokes bloke. And with 3 Michelline stars under his belt, you can hardly say he's not a proper Chef, can you?

Quite like old Jamie Oliver as well, they are certainly both a massive leap forward from the middle-class types we used to get on telly, swilling wine around their gobs and the like.

At least Jamie Oliver pretends to be a cockney lad, and Ramsey swears a bit. Keeping it real whilst they show me how to make pan-fried fillet of Dorade Royale on a bed of braised kangeroo hearts, with artichoke and ants nest sweet breads searved on a poached elephants ear.

What's wrong with jam crumpets?

[Andy]

Ok , fine you buy the whole thing, but personally I think you're all a bit naive to believe an act you see on tv.

Get real, of course its a valid point. If mother teressa made 10million a year ppl might have looked at her slightly different.. philanthropy is extremely rare, if it exists at all.


Yes he "looks" like he's doing this all out of the goodness of his heart, but he's not, like most philanthropists there are other motives too, the fact is that his "good samaratin", all round "my best mockney buddy" has made him a multi millionaire.

Just be a bit more cynical ppl, all Im saying is that it is possible that his motives are not driven purely by "the kids". They might be, but I'm not so sure as you.

I like him though.

I have friends that work for Charities full time and they get paid, does that mean that the work that they do is less important?? Just a small point but an important one methinks.