“When you hit your foot, when you get a splinter, when you get a burn … if you didn’t have that, you’d be dead 30 years ago. So I think it’s a real true gift.”
When Jamie’s restaurant group – which also included Barbecoa – went bankrupt in 2019, 1000 jobs were lost, and 22 of his 25 eateries closed.
Reflecting on the bankruptcy, Oliver – who is dyslexic – said that “pain and failure is all part of really shaping your peripheral vision and your senses”.
He continued: “I think, whatever it is that you’re trying to do, you might not have failed because you were wrong, sometimes I’ve failed because I was too early and people weren’t ready. Sometimes I’ve failed because I was too late.
“Sometimes I’ve…