Jamie Oliver opens up on former feud with Gordon Ramsay
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Jamie Oliver has opened up about his former feud with Gordon Ramsay on The Louis Theroux Podcast.
The 49-year-old told Theroux that after years of exchanges with the Hell's Kitchen star, their wives Jools Oliver and Tana Ramsay were the ones who stepped in an encouraged them to patch things up.
"I was a target [for] probably 10 years, I think, it was regular," Oliver said of Ramsay.
"I generally used to bite [back] once a year, and then that used to set him off for another year ... I think it kind of generated the noise, it was serving its purpose for him - I mean, I'd have to ask Gordon what it was all about.
"Cause we never fell out, we got on for the first couple of years, and then - as he did more TV - it just went on and on and on, and it was quite, it was painful but in the end it was Jools and his wife Tana that sorted it out."
Oliver revealed that despite their former feud, his kids are friends with Ramsay's children.
"It was like, 'come on dads, grow up' so I think that both of us got a telling off, and then we went to have a drink and put it all to rest and let bygones be bygones," he said.
When Oliver's Italian chain went under, Ramsay was "very supportive" and "very kind", even sending him messages of encouragement.
Oliver also opened up on his feud with Marco Pierre White, and said he was "destroyed" to hear his "hero" slam him in the press and didn't know what sparked it as they never worked together.
"He doesn't like me at all, still doesn't," he said, but added "that's fine, I don't need anything from him".
"I still think he was like a game changer, he was still my hero for that period of my life but that's life, and it's not just Marco, it's lots of people," Oliver said.
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