Jamie Oliver admits to quietly battling ‘really | UK News

Jamie Oliver has opened up about a “really dangerous” health issue he has been quietly battling. The TV chef rose to fame in the early noughties when he launched The Naked Chef on BBC Two. But his profession skyrocketed 20 years in the past with Jamie’s School Dinners – a collection which highlighted the state of college meals across the UK.

Since then, he has gone on to host a vary of cooking reveals on TV and even turned Britain’s second-best-selling writer behind Harry Potter writer J.Okay. Rowling. After celebrating his fiftieth birthday, Jamie has determined to write a healthy cookbook. He began noticing the “cliche aches and pains” that come with growing older.

Since his milestone birthday, the culinary skilled has come to see his physique “as an engine” slightly than one thing that “works unconditionally” for you. The chef admits that he has also developed a problematic relationship with sleep.

Speaking to The Times, he said: “I have had the worst relationship with sleep. I am at the end of a decade of only three or four hours of sleep a night and it’s really dangerous. I will fix it this year, but three times a week I wake up at 4.30am and don’t finish until 9pm. It’s too much.”

As nicely as points with his sleep, the dad-of-five revealed he has suffered from a slipped disc in his back. He describes the issue, along with his other aches and pains, as “old-people stuff”.

Although he’s identified for tackling the nation’s unhealthy eating habits, Jamie also concedes that “being greedy” has been his unhealthiest behavior throughout his life. Jamie insisted that he has always had a “varied diet” but admits that being grasping has been his “biggest problem.”

It comes after the famend British chef gave a uncommon glimpse into his household life and confessed to having “a temper”. In a latest chat with The Observer magazine, Jamie mentioned his home life with his spouse, Juliette, and their 5 youngsters, Poppy, Daisy, Petal, Buddy, and River.

Reflecting on fatherhood, the doting dad admitted that he “never thought” he’d have 5 children, but had a “feeling” that his spouse did. While the prospect of having so many youngsters was initially surprising, he acknowledged that “beign a father of five is an amazing privilege”, albeit “also chaotic and exhausting”.

Sharing an insight into how he normally conducts himself, he said: “Typically, I’m very patient, but I do have a temper, and it’s probably not a pretty sight.”