From $2 an hour to $450 million empire: Jamie Oliver's life in pictures
Jamie Oliver was a plucky young chef when he landed the gig that would make him a star.
He amassed millions of fans with his casual approach to home cooking as TV's Naked Chef in the late 1990s.
In the decades since, Oliver has won over more fans, weathered controversies and shifted his English comfort food to healthy pukka tucker.
Here we take a look at the life of a former country boy turned celebrity chef.
Jamie grew up in Clavering, in Essex, the eldest of two children to parents Trevor and Sally.
Jamie was around five when he started helping his parents in their pub, The Cricketers.
He washed glasses and chopped vegetables for £1 (approx $2) an hour.
"I was really good with the knife even back then, and to be honest, I cooked up some really good grub, even as a kid," Oliver told Flow Magazine.
"But my parents taught me something else really important: a great work ethic andhow to treat others with respect and friendliness, and how to stay polite even when you're stressed and your feet are killing you."
Jamie left school at just 16, choosing to instead enrol at Westminster catering college.
It was while studying he met fellow student, Juliette Norton.
It wasn't until they both turned 17 that they began dating.
Their first night out was a double date with friends to the movies.
It proved a memorable evening with Jamie crashing his Ford Fiesta.
"We were driving there that night and then I went smashing into the back of another car," he said on Alan Carr's Chatty Man talk show.
"She felt sorry for me. She thought, 'The way he drives, he needs support in life.'"
After graduating from college, Jamie worked in kitchens in France and London.
In London he worked as the head pastry chef at Neal Street Restaurant.
It was here Jamie met his mentor and long-time friend, Antonio Carluccio.
Jamie credits Carluccio with getting him "hooked on pasta".
As well as his learnings from Carluccio, Jamie gained an education at London's famed River Cafe.
It was while working alongside co-owner Rose Gray that Jamie was also given his big break.
He was called into work on the day a film crew showed up to film a documentary.
It was thanks to a single Tuscan dish -Rotolo - Gray had taught him.
"That's what I was cooking when Christmas at the River Cafe was filmed 23 years ago," the chef told The Guardian in 2018.
"It's the only reason I got discovered and ended up on TV. It's how I got to where I am today."
As cameras rolled, the camera crew kept asking Jamie questions.
"They just kept asking me, 'What you doing? How you doing it? What is it?' he told The Dinner Party Download podcast in 2015.
"To be honest, they were in my way. So I was kind of pushing them out of the way and getting on with it, answering their questions. But of course, I loved it.
"I ended up sort of laced throughout the show. And then the rest was kind of history. Loads of phone calls. The BBC was kind of courting me."
Oliver was 23 when The Naked Chef first aired on BBC2 in 1999.
His casual approach to cooking won fans and changed TV cooking forever.
The show was a hit in the UK and overseas, and ran for three seasons.
Jamie's star was on the rise, he was soon the pin-up for young foodies.
His popularity saw him follow up his Naked Chef series with further TV series.
First there was Pukka Tukka and then Oliver's Twist.
Soon he expanded his reach.
This could include a multi-million-dollar endorsement deal with Britain's second-largest supermarket chain, Sainsbury's, and a best selling cookbook.
By mid-July 2000, Jamie and his model partner, Juliette, better known as Jools, tied the knot.
Jamie wore a pale blue Paul Smith suit with snakeskin brogues while Jools wore a gorgeous strapless ivory Neil Cunningham gown.
Their first dance was reportedly to Dusty Springfield's I Only Want To Be With You.
And they even had an Elvis impersonator at their wedding.
