1. Rick Stein is the head chef and a co-owner of the "Rick Stein at Bannisters" restaurants in Mollymook and Port Stephens in Australia, with his second wife, Sarah.
21 Facts About Rick Stein
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Rick Stein writes cookery books and has presented numerous cookery series for the BBC.
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Rick Stein was educated at Wells Court, a preparatory school just outside Tewkesbury, then Wells House, the Court's bigger sister-school at Malvern Wells, and then Uppingham School.
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Rick Stein took A-levels in English, history and geography, but failed all of them.
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Rick Stein moved to a cram school in Brighton, gaining E grades in English and history.
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Rick Stein partially completed a hotel management traineeship with British Transport Hotels at its Great Western Royal Hotel in Paddington.
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Rick Stein travelled to New Zealand and Mexico around that time to "take some time out".
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Rick Stein ran the kitchen using the experience he had gained as a commis chef.
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In 2007, threats against Rick Stein's businesses were made by Cornish nationalists.
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In 2009, Rick Stein made his first acquisition in the nearby village of St Merryn,.
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Rick Stein has become a popular television presenter on food programmes.
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Rick Stein was often accompanied by his Jack Russell Terrier, Chalky, until his death in 2007.
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Rick Stein was awarded the OBE in the 2003 New Year Honours for services to tourism in Cornwall and the CBE in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to the economy.
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In 1965, when Rick Stein was 18, his father, a retired managing director of The Distillers Company, who suffered from bipolar disorder, killed himself by jumping from a cliff near the family's holiday home at Trevose Head.
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Rick Stein has three sons with Jill: Edward, Jack, and Charles who are involved in the family business.
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Rick Stein met Sarah Burns, 20 years his junior, in Australia in 1997, when he was 50.
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Rick Stein was married, and working as a publicity manager for Australia Gourmet Traveller magazine.
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Burns divorced in 2003, and she and Rick Stein married on 7 October 2011.
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Rick Stein has a half-brother, Jeremy, his mother's son from her first marriage.
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Rick Stein is the uncle of DJ and music producer Judge Jules, and the artist Lucy Stein.
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In 2022, Rick Stein underwent open heart surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital to repair a defective heart valve.