“My cooking attracted celebrities. I met Sylvester Stallone. He squeezed my bicep and said: 'I don't usually eat your kind of food, but for you, I ate it.' I haven't got a clue what he'd eaten but he asked me to cook for his wedding feast when he married Jennifer Flavin at Blenheim Palace.”

English chef, restaurateur and television personality

Marco Pierre White is an English chef, restaurateur and television personality. He became the first British chef to earn three Michelin stars, and did so at age 33, making him the youngest chef to reach that mark. He is also known for training chefs such as Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Curtis Stone, Phil Howard and Stephen Terry. He has been described as the first celebrity chef and as an enfant terrible of the British restaurant scene.