Kevin Woodford
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| Born | 4 June 1950 Willaston, Douglas, Isle of Man |
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Kevin Woodford (born 4 June 1950) is a Manx celebrity chef, actor, television presenter, businessman, hotelier and former restaurateur.
Career[]
He originally trained as a chef and then moved into education as a lecturer in professional cookery. After gaining a higher degree in the Management of Organisations he returned to education as Head of Hotel and Catering Studies at a Granville College in Sheffield.
He was a Senior Examiner for City and Guilds Professional Cookery Examinations, judge at several International Cookery Competitions and worked as a hotel and restaurant consultant for various national and some International organisations.
Kevin is currently working with Stena Line to develop menus for their 7 Irish Sea passenger ferries. Kevin is also helping train their galley chefs and on board service managers as part of a package developing sales and improving the customer experience.
Television presenting and acting career[]
His first TV appearance was on This Morning, and this was followed by him presenting The Reluctant Cook for BBC2, followed by Surprise Chefs for ITV. He then became a regular chef on the BBC cookery show, Ready Steady Cook, as well as presenting Can't Cook, Won't Cook for which he won a National Television Award for Best Daytime Presenter. More recently, he presented and co-produced a 104 part series of a CBBC cookery show, Planet Cook in which he played "Captain Cook". It later aired on Channel 4 and the series was first shown coast to coast in Australia and was a huge hit.
He has also presented Songs of Praise and the live topical debate magazine show The Heaven and Earth Show.
He travelled the world as Jill Dando's co-presenter on BBC Summer Holiday and Presenter for BBC's Holiday programme for 5 years.
He has also acting roles in Doctors (Robert Hale). For BBC's 'Fasten your Seatbelt' series he demonstrated his ability as a New York taxi driver, entertainer on board 'Oriana', deck hand on a tall ship, and concierge at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong.
He presented Big Kevin, Little Kevin for the BBC, has written and published 7 cookery books and is the only chef in Europe to have had his own recipes used on a set of Isle of Man postage stamps and was the recipient of 'This is Your Life' for BBC1. He has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.[1]
Woodford began reporting on consumer show Watchdog in 2015.
Business ventures[]
Woodford owned a restaurant in Douglas, Isle of Man for several years.
In 2009 he developed a small boutique hotel called Birchfield House in Douglas.
Woodford is also an after dinner speaker
Personal life[]
Woodford is married and has a son and daughter
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- 1950 births
- British television presenters
- Living people
- British television chefs
- Manx male actors
- British male television actors
- British businesspeople
- British television personalities
- Manx people
- Manx culture
- 21st-century Manx male actors
- 21st-century Manx writers
- 20th-century Manx writers
- 20th-century Manx male actors