1. Peter Daryl Evans was born on 29 August 1973 and is an Australian chef, and former television presenter, who was a judge of the competitive cooking show My Kitchen Rules.
33 Facts About Pete Evans
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In 1996, Pete Evans moved to Sydney with his brother and David Corsi and they opened Hugos Bondi in 1996, followed by Hugos Lounge in 2000 and Hugos Bar Pizza in 2004 and Hugos Manly in 2008.
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Pete Evans has cooked at several events in the US as part of the annual G'Day USA: Australia Week promotion.
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In 2013 Pete Evans was involved in a venture with several business partners that were reported to owe $769,000 to a multitude of different creditors, including Evans himself.
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In 2014, Pete Evans overhauled the menu at the CBD apartment hotel Fraser Suites in Perth in keeping with his paleo philosophy.
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Pete Evans remained a judge on MKR throughout its run, which in 2015 was the highest rated reality television competition in Australia with about two million weekly viewers.
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Pete Evans hosted the show A Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking, which aired on PBS in the United States, which was nominated in 2014 for a Daytime Emmy Award.
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In 2017, Pete Evans produced and narrated a Netflix documentary called The Magic Pill, which promoted the ketogenic diet, and claimed that it can help manage autism, asthma and cancer.
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Channel Seven has not announced whether Pete Evans would appear on the network in the future.
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Pete Evans has stated he will now be focusing on his alternative lifestyle business.
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Pete Evans had a monthly recipe column in The Australian Women's Weekly and has been a contributor to Selector magazine.
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In October 2012, Pete Evans began a monthly recipe column for Home Beautiful.
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Pete Evans has stated that the philosophy behind his books is that modern society is living by outdated nutritional precepts.
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Pete Evans is a motivational speaker, performing national tours in Australia.
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Pete Evans first learned of the paleo-diet after reading the works of Nora Gedgaudas.
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Pete Evans has written the following books, most published by Murdoch Books:.
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Pete Evans' championing of alternative medicines and "activated almonds" has attracted criticism from peak medical bodies throughout Australia.
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Pete Evans has stated that he completed an online course with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and describes himself as a "health coach" rather than a dietitian.
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In 2015, Pete Evans co-authored a cookbook titled Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way for New Mums, Babies and Toddlers which raised controversy after being called "extremely deadly for all babies" by health experts.
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Pete Evans is the first person to win the Australian Skeptics' Bent Spoon Award twice, most recently in 2020 when he won for the second time for his promotion of the pseudoscientific non-medical BioCharger for treating COVID-19, and for his promotion of the anti-vaccination cause, through interviewing defrocked medico Andrew Wakefield to discuss his debunked suggestion of a link between vaccines and autism, and his support of the Informed Medical Options Party in the Queensland state election.
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Pete Evans won the award in 2015 for "his diet promotions, campaigns against fluoridation and support of anti-vaccinationists".
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In 2016, Pete Evans gave advice to an osteoporosis sufferer on Facebook to stop eating dairy products.
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In 2018, Pete Evans furthered his opposition to the use of sunscreens, and promoted brief and direct looks into the sun without any means of protection, during sunrise and sunsets, which drew criticism as it can cause vision loss.
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Pete Evans is opposed to fluoridation of drinking water, and considers ingredients in many sunscreen products to be toxic.
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High-profile Australian medical experts have warned about the grave dangers of following Pete Evans' advice, including Michael Gannon, Brad McKay and obstetrician Brad Robinson.
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In 2019, Pete Evans was criticised by medical experts for spreading misinformation about vaccinations.
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In early 2020, it was reported that Evans had been photographed with prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr admiring his work as "important".
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The national president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Harry Nespolon, responded that "Pete Evans should stick to talking about 'activated almonds' and leave vaccinations alone", adding that the anti-vax movement is "intensely frustrating" and undermining gains made in improving public health.
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Pete Evans complained that comments Nespolon made about him had subjected him to being "laughed at and ridiculed".
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Burns wrote to Pete Evans to warn him about promoting Icke's views because of Icke's history of antisemitism.
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In May 2021, the TGA handed-down an $80,000 fine to Pete Evans for repeated breaches.
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Pete Evans has two daughters from his previous relationship with Astrid Ellinger.
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Pete Evans previously lived in Sydney in the suburb of North Bondi before purchasing a $1.2 million farm in Round Mountain, northern New South Wales, in 2015.