Jamie Oliver has told Dr Michael Mosley of his experiences with the food industry while making his 2015 Sugar Rush documentary, revealing that he felt threatened during the making of the show due to ‘multiple break-ins’.
The celebrity chef and health campaigner, who recently revealed his first cookbook was ‘written on the back of beer mats’, sat down with the doctor and weight loss guru for his latest programme, the Channel 4 series Who Made Britain Fat?.
Delving into the impact that the food industry has had on the nation’s waistlines, Oliver, 46, branded the trade ‘the mother of all businesses’.
He also shared that he had been pursued by them while making Sugar Rush, which investigated the contribution sugar has made to rising global health problems.
Alongside conversations he had with then-Prime Minister David Cameron about the UK’s sugar tax, which was eventually introduced in April 2018, the best-selling author admitted: ‘I was tracked down by every [food industry] CEO in every way.’