INTERVIEW: Celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli on his special return to Flavours Food Festival

Oct 14, 2019, 02:59 PM

DISHY celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli may be the sexy rock and roll pin-up of the cooking world but he says what you are inside matters most.

And he has won legions of new fans by proving just that.

The multi Michelin Star award winning chef - giving demos at South Yorkshire's Flavours Food Festival in Barnsley, this weekend, Oct 19 and 20, 2019 - gave up the glamour and put his lifestyle on hold when his baby son was diagnosed with cancer and then his partner developed a blood clot in her leg.

They both survived, his little boy is now cancer free, after gruelling chemotherapy treatment and Jean-Christophe is back running his restaurants, attending food festivals and a return to TV, with a zest  for life, as he tells Graham Walker here. Read more at https://www.thestar.co.uk/whats-on