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Who is Jean-Christophe Novelli and where are his restaurants?

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE Novelli is easily recognisable for being one of the biggest celebrity chefs in the UK.

He will be back on our screens with the new ITV reality series Keeping Up With The Aristocrats.

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Jean-Christophe Novelli, is a French celebrity chefCredit: Rex Features

How old is Jean-Christophe Novelli? What is his background?

Jean-Christophe Novelli was born on February 22, 1961, making him 60.

He is a French celebrity chef who was born and raised in Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais in northern France.

Jean-Christophe left school at 14 and worked in a bakery before, at the age of 20, becoming a personal chef to the Rothschild family.

He is a 5 out of 5 AA Rosette and multi Michelin Star award winning chef .

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His Novelli Academy has been voted one of the Top 25 Cooking Academies in the World, which he still owns and performs his own demonstrations.

Jean-Christophe shot to TV fame in 2005 when he appeared on Hell's Kitchen, which launched his celebrity chef status.

He is a multi Michelin Star award winning chefCredit: Rex Features

Where are Jean-Christophe's restaurants?

The chef opened his Four Seasons restaurant chain in London, establishing the foundations of an internationally successful restaurant business that culminated in 2016 with The Novelli Restaurant Ltd.

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Under this Jean-Christophe has devised three distinctive restaurant themes aimed at quality hotels: Terrané Brasseries, Bistro '61 and Rapido.

He also has the Novelli at City Quays restaurant in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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What has Jean-Christophe said about his son's cancer?

In June 2018 Jean-Christophe revealed his baby son Valentino was finally "back to normal" after a terrifying battle with cancer.

The celebrity chef and his fiancée Michelle were left devastated when their youngest son was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma at just six-weeks-old.

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The youngster endured four gruelling rounds of chemotherapy and two further courses of the most aggressive form of the drug at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

He was then diagnosed with autism in December 2019, little more than a year after overcoming stage four neuroblastoma.

 

Jean-Christophe Novelli reveals heartache over baby diagnosis on This Morning
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