Feeling bored so thought I would start a thread on celebrity chefs, to see who we think will be the next flamboyant gourmet to follow Floyd and be flambeed.

In fact, celebrity chefs don't always have a good record: besides Floyd, Jennifer Patterson (Two Fat Ladies), Joseph Cerniglia, Robbie Millar, Jean-francois Poinard, Bernard King (King's Kitchen), Fanny Craddock (desitute after scandal) and Bernard Loiseau (suicide after thinking he would lose a Michelin Star) all met fairly young or tragic ends. Also, Mietta O'Donnell, who was not a chef but an Aussie celebrity food critic went down in a car crash a few years ago.


Some candidates:

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Antonio Carluccio - Italian, born in 1935, has history of depression including the notorious "self-stabbing" incident a few years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Carluccio#Self-stabbing

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Jeanne Rankin - Canadian, born 1961, had all sorts of problems for years due to morphine addiction

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/149...o-morphine.html

http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/People/Jea...-in-the-Kitchen

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Margaret Fulton - Aussie, born in 1924:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fulton

Despite her age, she's still very active and, in fact, the cheeky old devil has just been playing the major supermarket chains off against each other as she advertises for both of them at once:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opin...0-1225965741074

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Iain Hewitson - New Zealander, born in 1948 but very overweight:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Hewitson

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Peter Russell-Clarke - Australian, born in 1935. No health information and still very active but I thought I would just use this as an excuse to share the infamous blooper reel... (Not safe for work):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDYxGB8V88k



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Graham Kerr - English, born 1937. Still seems very active with his own blog and public speaking activities. Focuses almost fanatically on healthy eating these days after his Missus had a stroke and heart attack after eating too much of his old "Galloping Gourmet" food!

http://www.grahamkerr.com/?cat=1

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Lorenza de Medici - Italian. She must be fairly ancient now but I can't find any age or health info online which is a surprise since her shows were fairly prominent here in Australia back in the 1990s. Anyone know how she is going?


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Can't think of any others who are even remotely candidates unless Heston poisons himself or Nigella drives someone to murder with her uber-contrived "sexiness."


PS. I'll wager that a large number of the good citizens of Huntington, West Virginia die well before one Mr Jamie Oliver....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...od-crusade.html

Pity no celebs live there!