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Jean-Christophe Novelli (, born 22 February 1961 ) is a French Celebrity Chef . CAREER Life Born in Arras , northern France , in 1961, in a family who has ultimately Italian roots, Jean-Christophe Novelli worked in a bakery before becoming (at the age of 20) a personal chef to the Rothschild family. He moved to Britain in 1983 , to run Keith Floyd 's Maltster's Arms restaurant in Totnes , Devon . He won the first of four Michelin stars at Le Provence in Lymington before becoming head chef at the Four Seasons Hotel on Hyde Park Corner . In 1996 he founded his restaurant, ''Maison Novelli'', in Clerkenwell , central London . He has opened further restaurants in London , France and South Africa and continues to expand his activities, acting a ''chef patron'' or consultant to various establishments and moving into the Gastro-pub market. He appeared in the first series of '' The Games '' in 2003 and also became a head chef on '' Hell's Kitchen '' in 2005 . In the same year he opened a cooking school called the Novelli Academy at his Hertfordshire farmhouse. He has 21 dogs most of them Doberman Pinscher On 5th September 2007 Novelli was awarded Honorary Doctor of Arts from the University of Bedfordshire. Other work In '', performing in a group with fellow chefs Aldo Zilli , Paul Rankin and Ross Burden . Novelli can presently be seen on the new ITV1 programme '' ...Cooks! '' He has been a contestant on '' Family Fortunes '' and on 2nd May 2007 appeared on "You're Fired!" on BBC Two, the show following "The Apprentice" on BBC One. Divorced, he lives in Hertfordshire where he owns a pub called "The White Horse", in Harpenden , and drives a Porsche Cayenne {Link without Title} EXTERNAL LINKS
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