We're all middle class now; AS JAMIE OLIVER IS VOTED THE HERO OF MIDDLE ENGLAND.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: January 6, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT

HAD YOU been playing an after-dinner game to while away family tensions at Christmas by guessing who was the hero of the British middle classes today, anyone who'd named Jamie Oliver would have been mocked unsparingly.

Bumptious Jamie seems an unlikely icon for middleclass Middle England - although not necessarily more so than some of the other names listed in the top ten of influences on the Middle Classes, published this week. <...

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