SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Jamie Oliver's £10million recipe for revamped mansion

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 20:56 EST, 10 December 2015 | Updated: 21:13 EST, 10 December 2015

Jamie Oliver’s company was accused this week of ‘ruthless’ management, after making dozens of staff redundant this Christmas.

They’ll be less than cheered to know that the chef is about to splash the cash on his new £10million home in leafy Highgate. 

Oliver has just filed an application for renovations to the Grade II*-listed property, where neighbours include Kate Moss.

The proposals include new railings, York stone floors and re-plastering ceilings.

Earlier this year, Oliver admitted he’d ‘f****d up’ 40 per cent of his various ventures. I hope he has better luck with the decorating.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver (pictured) is about to splash the cash on his new £10million home in leafy Highgate, London, to carry out a number of works including new railings, York stone floors and re-plastered ceilings

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver (pictured) is about to splash the cash on his new £10million home in leafy Highgate, London, to carry out a number of works including new railings, York stone floors and re-plastered ceilings

Jamie Oliver is about to splash the cash on his new £10million home in leafy Highgate, north London (above)

Jamie Oliver is about to splash the cash on his new £10million home in leafy Highgate, north London (above)

 

Balmoral hits out at litter louts 

The Queen’s Balmoral estate has attacked ‘thoughtless litter louts’ who have turned a hillside shelter into a tip. Staff took to Balmoral’s Facebook page to vent anger over the detritus. 

‘Davy’s Bourach was built as an emergency shelter in 1966 by the famous hill man Davy Glen,’ they posted. ‘What a shame to see it abused and spoilt.’

In August, staff posted a picture of rubbish dumped on Lochnagar mountain, immortalised in Prince Charles’s 1980 book, The Old Man Of Lochnagar. 

It follows the announcement of a national clean-up day to coincide with the Queen’s 90th.

 

Maverick author Roger Lewis has been snubbed again by the Royal Society of Literature, which has declined to confer a fellowship on him despite being nominated by distinguished novelist Paul Bailey. 

‘One needs to have produced two works of “literary merit”,’ says Lewis, biographer of Laurence Olivier and Peter Sellers and author of Seasonal Suicide Notes. ‘It is good to know I have produced none such.’ 

One existing fellow apparently told Bailey that ‘what Roger doesn’t get is that the RSL exists precisely to keep people like him out’. 

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