Jamie Oliver is officially the world’s richest celebrity chef, according to the Daily Star, who report that he’s currently placed at number 501 in the Sunday Times’ Rich List.

That puts his bank balance at a goodly amount more than rival TV chefs Gordon Ramsay, Delia Smith and Heston Blumenthal – to name but a few – with his estimated personal wealth being around £150million.

And that is of course thanks to his innumerable TV shows, cookery books and his chain of restaurants.

Jamie – who left formal education with just two GCSEs and an NVQ in Home Economics – now plans to expand his restaurant empire to the States, has seen several of his books become best sellers within weeks of them hitting the shelves… Read more & comment »