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Jamie Oliver is one of the judges on ABC's "Oprah's Big Give."
Jamie Oliver is best known for his TV series "The Naked Chef." This best-selling author and popular personality is credited with getting the British government to increase funding for healthy school meals. Through his charity, Fifteen Foundation, Oliver also trains and mentors disadvantaged young people.
Jamie Oliver was born in May 1975. Jamie Oliver's father runs a lovely pub-restaurant, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, where Jamie grew up.
When Jamie Oliver was 16, he went to Westminster Catering College and then did some time in France, learning as much as he could, before coming back to London to work as head pastry chef for Antonio Carluccio at The Neal Street Restaurant.
After The Neal Street Restaurant, Jamie Oliver worked for Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers at the River Café for three and a half years. It was there that Jamie Oliver first got in front of a TV camera. A documentary about the restaurant was being filmed and the editors decided to show a lot of this cheeky kid who was so into the cooking that he'd answer back to the crew. The day after the programme was shown, Jamie Oliver got calls from five production companies all wanting to talk about a possible show. The result was "The Naked Chef."
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