One famous TV chef banned comic Harry Hill from using clips of his show on TV burp after a cheeky on-air jab. During the height of his fame in the mid-noughties, the 59-year-old comic took no prisoners as he poked fun at the biggest TV shows hitting the airwaves each week. The funnyman certainly ruffled a few feathers with famous faces throughout his 11-year reign, but none more than Essex chap Jamie Oliver.
In one skit, the dad-of-three poked fun at the cook when he created a spoof ‘turn it off’ clip, based on Jamie’s Pass It On campaign from the Channel 4 series Ministry of Food. The bit, which cheekily urged the nation to stop watching the culinary expert, apparently offended the dad-of-five so much that he refused to work with the You’ve Been Framed narrator. Opening up about the reaction he got from UK stars in an interview with Metro , he recalled: “The only person who took exception was Jamie Oliver.
We did go a bit too far but we had a show to fill. “He had a diagram on his show about, ‘If you teach two people to make spaghetti Bolognese, then they teach two friends, in a week, X amount of people will know how to make it.” He chuckled: “We did a diagram saying, ‘If you tell two friends not to bother watching Jamie’s Whatever It Is, and they tell two friends.
..’ He hit the roof.
After that he wouldn’t give us any more clips.” After hearing about his response to the light-hearted clip, the presenter attempted to make amends. He went on: “Th.
