“My only ambition was to have a restaurant and bring real Italian food to this country. Television was never even part of my idea, so I can say without hesitation that I am living someone else's dream.”

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.