Gino D'Acampo once presented his wife with an enormous life-changing choice, prior to her becoming the chef's "first-ever investor". In a recent episode of the White Wine Question Time Podcast with Kate Thornton , the much-loved Italian chef offered fans a glimpse into the early days of his cooking career. The Gordon, Gino and Fred's Road Trip star , who is also known for his appearances on This Morning, revealed that his wife, Jessica Stellina Morrison, made an incredible, life-changing gesture when he was first starting out.
This Morning star Gino explained that Jessica had been made redundant from a "big job" at the time, meaning she had been left with a "sum of money", so the chef presented her with a choice. He said: "It was pretty much me doing cooking and sometimes waitering as well at the same time. I used to cook, take my jacket off and also take it away and then come.
..oh yeah, a nightmare at the beginning, a nightmare.
Gino continued: "And Jessie gave me the money to open my first restaurant. Yeah, she was..
.I think she was just made redundant from a job that she had, a big job that she had and so she had a sum of money. "And I asked her; I said, 'Look, we've got a choice.
Are we gonna open a restaurant or we gonna buy a house? Which one do you prefer?' "And I think she...
.very courageous. She said, 'No, I want you to open the restaurant because I think you're gonna do well'.
So she invested...
she was my first-ever investor." The I’m A Celebrity winner moved to t.