You know? I have the luck to be born a human. 'Otherwise, I would have been born a donkey. 'I was not born to work like a donkey,' he continues. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. We need your consent to load this Instagram content We use Instagram to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Ok? So if you ask me to work seven months of the year, I won’t do that, because that is not a good balance to me.' 'I only work if I can take the same amount of holidays. No, I holiday with my family about six months of the year and I work the other six months, so my balance is at the moment, perfect,' he explains.

But for a chef with three kids, a restaurant empire, cookbooks to write, Family Fortunes to present, and many a trip booked with Gordon Ramsay and Fred Sirieix for their buddy series, Gordon, Gino And Fred: Road Trip, how does he balance work with family life? 'I got two dishwashers in the kitchen, so nobody has any excuses.'įamily life is at the core of D’Acampo’s new cookbook and ITV series, Gino’s Italian Family Adventure. The only rebellions he gets are when it’s time to wash up – but, 'I have organised myself for that,' he says with a laugh. 'My wife is a great cook, I cook, so all our conversation, all our arguments, all our everything, always happens in the kitchen,' he says intensely. His kids never really had any choice when it came to appreciating food. 'We enjoy the meal, and we talk.' Gino D'Acampo and family (Haarala Hamilton/PA) My family knows that when we eat, there is no distraction,' he explains. 'We don’t have mobile phones or television on or radio or anything like that. The D’Acampo household – the presenter and cookbook author shares three children, Luciano, 19, Rocco, 16, Mia, 8, with wife Jessica – eat together at 8pm every night. Or everybody is distracted watching television – that is not the way.' The Italian chef, 45 – known for his tan, family-friendly recipes and a certain level of moodiness – says at dinnertime the 'talking is more important than the food, to be honest with you, because there’s no point having a great meal and everybody don’t talk to each other. According to Gino D’Acampo, what’s on the dinner table is actually far less crucial than what’s going on around it.

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