He’s known the world over, is the top-selling non-fiction author in the UK, has a TV career spanning 25 years and yet, somehow, always appears so down to earth.
Maybe it’s having a large family – Jamie Oliver and wife Jools have five children, aged between seven and 22. Or maybe it’s the fact that he’s neurodiverse.
As a child with dyslexia, Jamie found school difficult and describes words as “his enemy”. He knows that being the second most successful British author is an incredible feat for a man who looks at a page and sees words jump around.
But he also has ADHD and knows that being neurodiverse has made him – and kept him – who he is today. Jamie, 49, has just published his latest children’s book, Billy And The Epic Escape – the second he’s written and a sequel to the first.
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