Phil Vickery (chef)

Philip Vickery (born 2 May 1961) is an English celebrity chef. He is best known for working on ITV's This Morning, where he has been the Chef since 2006.

Phil Vickery
Born
Philip Vickery

2 May 1961 (1961-05-02) (age 59)
Folkestone, Kent, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationCelebrity chef, food writer
Years active1996–present
EmployerBBC (former)
ITV (current)
Known forReady, Steady, Cook,
This Morning
Home townFolkestone, Kent, England
Spouse(s)
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(
m. 2000;
January. 
2020)
Children1
Websitehttp://vickery.tv

Biography

Vickery followed Gary Rhodes as head chef of the Castle Hotel, Taunton, Somerset, which at the time held a Michelin Star.[1] It lost its Michelin status under Vickery, but retained its 4 AA rosettes, while he gained the AA Chef of the Year. Vickery regained the Michelin star, re-awarded for four consecutive years from 1994 to 1997.[2] Vickery has written twelve books. The first, "Just Food", was published by Headline in 1999. He appeared in BBC's Ready Steady Cook over 200 times between 1996 and 2010 until the show's retirement, often being nicknamed "Phil Victory" due to his high win record in the series.

He currently appears on the television programme This Morning as a part of "This Morning Cook In!".

In September 2008, Vickery began advertising food products and promoting special offers for supermarket chain Aldi, after signing a two-year deal with the chain. He is also the current spokesperson for Unilever's Stork brand margarine.[3] He was appointed Food Ambassador in March 2010 by Coeliac UK. He became interested in the subject of gluten-free food when a Christmas pudding company he owned switched to using rice flour, and he noticed an increase in orders due to the niche position the product occupied.[4]

Family

Vickery is the second of three sons of Robert and Teresa Vickery. They were born at Folkestone, then raised at Densole in Hawkinge near Folkestone. He began dating Fern Britton in 1999 after they met on the set of BBC Two's Ready Steady Cook. They married in spring 2000. Vickery has one daughter with Britton, Winifred (2001) and is stepfather to Britton's three children from her first marriage. Vickery and Britton announced on their Twitter accounts on 29 January 2020 that they were separating after 20 years of marriage.

Books
  • Just Food (1999)
  • Phil & Fern's Family Food (2002)
  • Proof of the Pudding (2003)
  • The Complete Gammon Cookbook (2006)
  • A Passion for Puddings (2006)
  • Ready Steady Cook: The Ten-minute Cookbook (with Ross Burden, Gino D'Acampo, James Martin and Nick Nairn (2006)
  • Cooking Naked (2007)
  • Britain: The Cookbook (with Lee Steve) (2007)
  • The Little Book of Great British Turkey Recipes (2008)
  • Phil Vickery's Puddings (2009)
  • Seriously Good! Gluten-Free Cooking (2009)
  • Seriously Good! Gluten-Free Baking (2010)
  • The Great Outdoors Cookbook (2011)
  • Pork (2013)
  • Game (2014)
  • Seriously Good! Gluten Free Cooking, 2nd Edition (2016)
  • Essential Gluten Free (2016)
gollark: Why? Not eating pizza is basically the default option.
gollark: I don't even *eat* pizza.
gollark: This is NOT true. I have not in any way been sponsored by pizza companies. There have been no advertising agreements whatsoever with any companies producing pizza or otherwise to have me subliminally advertise pizza, as my profile picture is not a pizza. Since it is not a pizza, this is obviously not pizza advertisement whatsoever. No monetary exchanges or otherwise have occurred with companies engaged in pizza production for any reason relating to my profile picture. You are clearly engaged in libel and attempting to discredit my non-pizza-advertising status. It is IN NO WAY subliminal pizza advertising because I DO NOT work for pizza companies in any form. It's not pizza. There were no deals, under-the-table or otherwise, with pizza companies. No pizza companies pay for any kind of subliminal advertising involving me. People make that mistake, but I am not working for pizza companies doing subliminal advertising; that is not in any way what I am doing. I am NOT being sponsored by ANY pizza companies to display subliminal pizza advertising OF ANY KIND. Pizza companies have NO AFFILIATION with me in ANY FORM.
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gollark: I have no affiliation with pizza companies.

References
  1. Wells, John (27 March 1994). "EATING OUT / Fortress of new English food: The Castle Hotel, Taunton, Somerset". London: The Independent. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
  2. Tj. "Phil's Vickery TV - Mustard (France)". www.vickery.tv.
  3. "Bake with Stork". Unilever. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  4. Clay, Xanthe (15 October 2010). "Gluten-free recipes by Phil Vickery". The Daily Telegraph. London.

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