Jamie Oliver

My dislike of Jamie Oliver, is based on his ability to be a Mock Cockney, an achievement which has spawned its own word, Mockney.

As you may read in other places in this blog, I am quite sensitive to accents. Oliver's adoption of the cockney accent, in an attempt to increase sales of his books, kitchenware, used underpants etc, is a low act in my opinion. This is even more distasteful as his parents are quite wealthy, I reckon Oliver got the idea from Pulp's Common People.

Oliver lives in a seemingly perfect world, with a perfect wife and perfect friends, that is if you believe the television advertisements that he made for Sainsbury's, time after time Oliver stated that he wouldn't be doing any more of these advertisements, as felt he had sold out. Time after time, Oliver continued to do more advertisements, presumably so he could charge a higher fee.

What really bugs me, is that when Oliver went into UK schools to 'improve' their school dinners, he felt the need to turn up to the school in his huge Chelsea taxi, I'm not a fan of cars, so I couldn't tell you what type of car it was, but It looked like it was worth more than the schools he was visiting, very distasteful when you are portraying the image of someone who is helping underprivileged kids.