Chef Faked Resume To Be On TV

Celebrity chef Robert Irvine has been exposed. His resume, which boasts of impressive feats such as having cooked for Britain’s Royal Family, making the wedding cake for Prince Charles and Princess Diana and cooking for various U. S. presidents, is partly fabricated.

His reputation now deflated like an unsuccessful soufflé, Irvine is beginning to witness the results of his actions. The Food Network, where he stars on his own culinary show, “Dinner: Impossible,” announced it would not renew Irvine’s contract.

The network will air the remaining episodes of the current season, the series’ fourth, and will be looking for a replacement chef. “We rely on the trust that our viewers have in the accuracy of the information we present, and Robert challenged that trust,” the network said in a written release.

The British-born Irvine first confessed his fabrications to the St. Petersburg Times in a Feb. 17 article. He told the paper he had resorted to embellishments in order to soothe his hurt ego.

“I met people with all this money, it was like trying to keep up with the Joneses. I was sitting in a bar one night and that came out. It was stupid,” he confessed.

“I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family,” Irvine said in a written statement. “I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.”

Chef Robert Irvine Fired Over Fake Resume

Food Network celebrity chef Robert Irvine is headed for the chopping black after lying on his resume when hired for the network's Dinner: Impossible series. Irvine was fired for embellishing his resume by saying he graduated from the University of Leeds and had cooked for Princess Diana, among other claims. Questions over the chef's true qualifications arose after an investigation launched by the St. Petersburg Times.

In researching Irvine's history for a story about his failed restaurant launches in St. Petersburg, the Times uncovered multiple instances where fact did not quite match the fabulous image of a worldly, first-class British chef. One of the most telling revelations was that the University of Leeds had no record of Irvine ever attending the university or having any connection to it, according to a press officer at Leeds.

While the statement said the network will continue to show reruns of previous shows and the new series of the show currently in production, the network will not renew Irvine's contract for future seasons.
In addition to losing his future career with the Food Network, Irvine is facing a plethora of legal and financial problems revolving around the two restaurants he had planned to open in St. Petersburg. The restaurants still remain under construction and various parties say Irvine owes them tens of thousands of dollars for their work on the uncompleted projects.