Jean-Christophe Novelli
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Jean-Christophe Novelli (IPA: [ʒɑ̃ kʁistof nɔvəji], born 22 February 1961) is a French chef who works in England.
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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.
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In 2006, Novelli appeared on The X Factor: Battle of the Stars, 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 in Family Fortunes.
Divorced, he lives in Hertfordshire where he owns a pub called "The White Horse", in Harpenden, and drives a Porsche Cayenne [1]
