“My mother would never say anything I cooked for her was great. She was always a 'Yeah, but' person. When she tasted my food, I used to say to her 'Don't tell me too straight, lie to me!' She couldn't even understand why I was on television.”

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.