“My father always encouraged me to do whatever I wanted, providing I was happy. He wanted me to go to school, but because I never wanted to, it was the only thing we argued about.”

Italian celebrity chef, television personality and writer

Gennaro Sheffield “Gino” D’Acampo is an Italian celebrity chef, television personality and writer based in the United Kingdom. He came to wider public attention in 2009, when he won the ninth series of ITV’s reality show I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. Since then, he has been a regular chef on ITV’s This Morning and has presented a number of food and travel programmes, including There’s No Taste Like Home and Gino’s Italian Escape. His work centres on cooking, food culture and travel, brought to a broad television audience through a mix of studio segments and location-based series.