Gino D'Acampo

In 1995, aged 19, D'Acampo moved to London to work in The Orchard Restaurant, Hampstead, London and the Cambio Restaurant in Guildford, Surrey.

D'Acampo co-owns Bontà Italia Ltd, a supplier of Italian ingredients, and has a career in the development of ready meals, beginning with the Tesco Finest range.{{cite magazine|last=Halliwell|first=James|date=2 October 2015|title=Big Interview: Gino D'Acampo on bullies, gangsters, and good pizza|url=https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/people/gino-dacampo-on-bullies-gangsters-and-good-pizza/525435.article|magazine=The Grocer|access-date=24 June 2021}} This experience led to his first engagement as a guest on Great Food Live on UKTV Food and the start of his television career.

In 2009, D'Acampo was crowned King of the Jungle in the ninth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.{{cite book |last=Busk-Cowley |first=Mark |year=2014 |title=I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!: The Inside Story |publisher=Bantam Press |pages=212 |isbn=978-0-593-07348-3}} After the show, D'Acampo and fellow contestant Stuart Manning were charged by the Australian Federal Police with animal cruelty for killing and cooking a rat on the show. However, the charges were later dropped after ITV accepted responsibility for the incident.{{cite news|last=Laing |first=Aislinn |date=8 February 2010 |title=ITV fined £1,600 for animal cruelty over I'm a Celebrity rat stunt |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7186106/ITV-fined-1600-for-animal-cruelty-over-Im-a-Celebrity-rat-stunt.html |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=20 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210070749/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7186106/ITV-fined-1600-for-animal-cruelty-over-Im-a-Celebrity-rat-stunt.html |archive-date=10 February 2010 |url-status=live}}

D'Acampo has regularly appeared on the ITV series This Morning. He launched his first iPhone app, Gino D'Acampo – Eating Italian, in 2010.{{cite web|title=Gino D'Acampo – Eating Italian |url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/gino-dacampo-eating-italian/id401698628?mt=8 |publisher=iTunes Store |access-date=20 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126081244/https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/gino-dacampo-eating-italian/id401698628?mt=8 |archive-date=26 November 2010 |url-status=dead}}

From 2011 until 2014, D'Acampo and Melanie Sykes presented the daytime cookery programme Let's Do Lunch with Gino & Mel.{{cite web|date=19 December 2014|title=Roast turkey and all the trimmings!|url=http://www.itv.com/letsdolunch|website=Let's Do Lunch with Gino & Mel|publisher=ITV|access-date=1 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109213927/http://www.itv.com/letsdolunch|archive-date=9 January 2015|url-status=dead}} The show aired for four series and three Christmas series from 2012 to 2014. D'Acampo hosts a Sunday afternoon cookery and discussion show on LBC 97.3. In 2011, D'Acampo presented the daytime cookery series There's No Taste Like Home for thirty episodes.{{cite web|title=There's No Taste Like Home|url=http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/There%27s_No_Taste_Like_Home|website=UKGameshows.com|access-date=1 November 2023}}

In 2013, D'Acampo launched a chain of restaurants with his name followed by My Pasta Bar or My Restaurant.{{cite web|last=Eversham|first=Emma|date=22 October 2013|title=Gino D'Acampo's My Pasta Bar expansion plans on target|url=http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Business/Gino-D-Acampo-s-My-Pasta-Bar-expansion-plans-on-target|website=BigHospitality|access-date=1 November 2023}} His first pasta bar opened on Fleet Street in July 2013. There are also restaurants in Leadenhall Market, Bishopsgate, Euston railway station,{{cite web |last=Rayner |first=Jay |author-link=Jay Rayner |date=9 October 2016 |title=Gino D'Acampo - My Restaurant: restaurant review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/09/gino-dacampo-my-restaurant-review-jay-rayner |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=24 October 2018}} The Manchester Corn Exchange,{{cite news|last=Flanagan|first=Emma|date=25 August 2015|title=Gino D'Acampo announces new restaurant to open in Corn Exchange this year|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/gino-dacampo-announces-new-restaurant-9920803|newspaper=Manchester Evening News|access-date=1 November 2023}} Harrogate, Camden Town (Gino D'Acampo My Restaurant){{cite web|title=Gino D'Acampo - My Restaurant|url=https://ginodacamporestaurants.com/myrestaurant/myrestaurants/camden/|website=ginodacamporestaurants.com|access-date=24 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024192210/https://ginodacamporestaurants.com/myrestaurant/myrestaurants/camden/|archive-date=24 October 2018|url-status=dead}}

Since 2013, D'Acampo has presented seven series of Gino's Italian Escape on ITV. A cookery book is released to accompany each series.{{cite web|date=13 September 2013|title=Gino's Italian Escape|url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week37/ginos-italian-escape|publisher=ITV|access-date=1 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909154129/http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week37/ginos-italian-escape|archive-date=9 September 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last=Drewett |first=Meg |date=12 June 2013 |title=Gino D'Acampo lands primetime TV series, book deal |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a489304/gino-dacampo-lands-primetime-tv-series-book-deal.html |website=Digital Spy |access-date=20 July 2013}}

In autumn 2014, D'Acampo filled in as a team captain for Holly Willoughby on the ITV2 panel show Celebrity Juice, while she went on maternity leave. D'Acampo also appeared in the following series in spring 2015, this time as a regular panellist.{{cite press release|date=16 September 2014|title=Gino D'Acampo to join the Celebrity Juice panel|url=http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/gino-dacampo-join-celebrity-juice-panel|publisher=ITV|access-date=1 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084029/http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/gino-dacampo-join-celebrity-juice-panel|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}} D'Acampo returned to Celebrity Juice in September 2015 where he replaced Fearne Cotton as team captain whilst she was on maternity leave.

In 2015 and 2017, D'Acampo toured the UK with a live stage show called Gino's Italian Escape to accompany his television series. He visited cities including Bath, Newcastle and Margate.{{cite web|date=19 June 2015|title=Gino's Italian Escape - The Live Tour|url=https://www.itv.com/tours/ginos-italian-escapes-the-live-tour|publisher=ITV|access-date=1 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708214655/https://www.itv.com/tours/ginos-italian-escapes-the-live-tour|archive-date=8 July 2015|url-status=dead}}

In May 2018, it was confirmed that Channel 5 had picked up Win Your Wish List for its Saturday night schedule, with D'Acampo as host. The show is now called Gino's Win Your Wish List.{{cite web|last=Whittingham|first=Clive|date=15 May 2018|title=Channel 5 adds Stellify to new Wish List|url=http://www.c21media.net/channel-5-adds-stellify-to-new-wish-list/|publisher=C21Media|access-date=1 November 2023}} The revival is produced by Stellify Media.

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• Fantastico! (2007)
• Buonissimo! (2008)
• The Italian Diet (2010)
• Gino's Pasta (2011)
• Italian Home Baking (2011)
• Gino's Italian Escape (2013)
• Gino's Italian Escape: A Taste of the Sun{{cite web|date=9 September 2013|title=The book {{!}} Gino's Italian Escape|url=http://www.itv.com/ginositalianescape/book|publisher=ITV|access-date=1 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917214335/http://www.itv.com/ginositalianescape/book|archive-date=17 September 2013|url-status=dead}} (2014)
• Gino's Veg Italia! 100 Quick and Easy Vegetarian Recipes{{cite book|last=D'Acampo|first=Gino|year=2015|title=Gino's Veg Italia!: 100 Quick and Easy Vegetarian Recipes|publisher=Hodder |isbn=978-1-4447-9519-6|id={{ASIN|1444795198|country=uk}}}} (2015)
• Gino's Italian Escape: Islands in the Sun (2015)
• Gino's Hidden Italy (2016)
• Gino's Healthy Italian for Less (2017)
• Gino's Italian Coastal Escape (2017)
• Gino's Italian Adriatic Escape (2018)
• Gino's Italian Express (2019)
• Gino's Italian Family Adventure (2021)cc
• Gino's Italy: Like Mamma Used to Make (2022)
• Gino's Air Fryer Cookbook: Italian Classics Made Easy (2024)

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D'Acampo lives with his wife Jessica Stellina Morrison, whom he married in 2002.{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Emily|date=5 December 2009|title=Gino D'Acampo is crowned King of I'm a Celebrity|url=http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/144318|newspaper=Daily Express|access-date=1 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111029093309/http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/144318|archive-date=29 October 2011|url-status=dead}} He has three children.{{cite news |last=Campbell |first=Tina |date=2 November 2022 |title=Gino D'Acampo blasts David Beckham for putting pressure on working dads to spend more time with their children |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/gino-dacampo-david-beckham-happy-mum-happy-baby-podcast-b1037010.html |newspaper=Evening Standard |access-date=25 December 2022}}

In 1998, D'Acampo was convicted of burgling singer Paul Young's London home, and served two years in prison. D'Acampo has apologised to Young, who accepted and suggested that D'Acampo could invite him to dinner in his restaurant.{{cite news|last1=Robertson|first1=Peter|last2=Razaq|first2=Rashid|date=25 November 2011|title=Invite me to dinner and I'll let you off burgling my home, Paul Young tells TV chef|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/invite-me-to-dinner-and-ill-let-you-off-burgling-my-home-paul-young-tells-tv-chef-6371984.html|newspaper=Evening Standard|access-date=25 January 2018}}

D'Acampo is a fan of the rugby union team Leicester Tigers.{{cite magazine |last=Head |first=Tom |date=17 February 2011 |title=Interview: Gino D'Acampo |url=http://www.leedsguide.co.uk/review/interview/gino-dacampo/18029 |magazine=The Leeds Guide |access-date=20 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928185820/http://www.leedsguide.co.uk/review/interview/gino-dacampo/18029 |archive-date=28 September 2013 |url-status=dead}}

In February 2025, ITV News reported on various allegations of inappropriate and intimidating behaviour by D'Acampo spanning more than 12 years from people who have worked with him. He told ITV News he "firmly denied" the allegations, claiming they were "deeply upsetting".{{cite web |date=6 February 2024 |title=ITV News uncovers multiple claims of sexually inappropriate behaviour by Gino D'Acampo |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2025-02-06/itv-news-uncovers-multiple-claims-of-inappropriate-behaviour-by-gino-dacampo |website=ITV News}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20181210063246/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bcffbac1f Gino D'Acampo] at the British Film Institute
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