Losing the respect that once was

The latest thing that I read was that he is now having his own magazine. "Jamie Magazine".

Jamie Oliver has had quite the influence on me. I applied to - and got accepted at - Copenhagen Catering College after seeing him being so enthusiastic about food on "The Naked Chef". I was enchanted when he started Fifteen and thrilled when he came through on the school dinners. And I don't know what took him so long before doing something like "Jamie's Italian Escape", doing something for himself.

But somehow it just seems to go too far in the non-sexual exhibitionistic direction. It's all out there on the telly - also involving Jools (Jamie's missus) breaking down in tears by the mention of (false) rumours of Jamie cheating on her and the birth of one of their two first daughters (I can't remember which for the life of me).

And now a magazine.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he's genuine and wants to do good with it, just as he says. And having a magazine has been a dream of his. And he can channel a lot of experience from himself and a lot of other people in that magazine. But "Jamie Magazine"?!

*sigh*

I know that Jamie knows his shit. But although I first saw him as a pompous arse, and in spite of doing reality TV ("Hell's Kitchen") and having several restaurants and michelin stars around the world, I still have more respect for Gordon Ramsay and find him much less overexposed.

I never imagined the day that I god sick of Jamie Oliver. But now I do.