Olly's World —
About Olly
The lowdown—
Olly is a uniquely enthusiastic British TV presenter, wine expert and journalist. Olly is currently presenting Iron Chef UK for Channel 4.
He also appears regularly on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen and internationally on Taste and Great Food Live.
Olly hosts a multitude of live events including MasterChef Live for the BBC, Taste of London for Channel 4 and the F-Word Live with Channel 4.
Regularly asked to appear as a commentator on television, he has appeared on BBC Breakfast, Sky News, The Wright Stuff and across the nation on channels such as BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4.
Olly writes a weekly wine column for The Mail on Sunday’s Live Magazine reaching 5.3 million readers each week. He is also a columnist for Sainsbury’s Magazine reaching 3.9 million readers every month.
Olly’s new book ‘Eat &Drink’ is published by Headline in May 2010. Illustrated by his own fair hand, it is a treasure trove of recipes, wine tips and tales of adventure from his travels across the high seas of flavour.
Olly launched his first wine bar and eatery ‘The Glass House’ on board the luxury cruise liner Azura with P&O Cruises in April 2010.
In 2009, for his work in food and wine Olly won the prestigious International Wine & Spirits Communicator of the Year award, an honour he described as being like “surfing all the way to the shores of Happyland”. He has also been awarded Drinks Business Young Achiever of the Year Award 2009 – Rock on!
Before romping into the world of fine food and wine, Olly previously wrote for TV and film, including shows such as Pingu and Charlie & Lola, and even spent a joyful day gag-writing for Wallace & Gromit’s Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
However, Olly’s favourite writing assignment was The Fly Who Loved Me which united him with his hero and chum Sir Roger Moore. Check out His Rogesty’s work for UNICEF – Roger rules!
Watch Olly’s TV and Live Events showreels here.
