Jamie’s German gas jibe fiasco
TV chef Jamie Oliver outraged Germans last night — by making a crass joke about the holocaust. The Cockney cook, 33, made the jibe in front of a 300-strong audience — many of them German.
He was talking about his Jamie’s Fowl Dinners show being broadcast globally and a scene in it where chicks are killed. He said: “We had a lot of complaints about the gassing of chicks . . . in Germany. It’s gone all round the world and the one country that had a problem with it is Germany. I thought f****** hell!”
But German writer Udo Seiwert-Fauti who was at the talk for the Edinburgh TV Festival, said: “It was a very unwise thing to say — I was shocked.”
Jamie’s spokesman last night confirmed “half a dozen” people complained. He added: “We love all Germans and I am sure he did not mean to offend them.”