Ainsley Harriott

About

Ainsley Harriott is a British celebrity cook and television presenter, best known for presenting the TV cooking show Ready, Steady, Cook. Online, he’s mostly known for his memorable facial expressions and the dirty humor he often features in his speeches.

Television Career

In 1995, Harriott became the resident chef on the British daytime show Good Morning with Anne and Nick, and also became the host chef on the British game and cooking show Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook. In 2000, Harriott began hosting Ready, Steady, Cook, where the public provide two celebrity chefs a series of ingredients and they had to use them to make several dishes. Since then Hansley has presented more straightforward how-to-cook programmes such as Ainsley’s Barbecue Bible, Ainsley’s Meals in Minutes, Ainsley’s Big Cook Out and Ainsley’s Gourmet Express.

Online Presence

Arround December 2010, a picture of Ainsley spicing a salad became viral on 4chan’s /v/ (Video Games) board and has since spread to other boards, mostly because of his grin, which some users pointed out to resemble a trollface and a rape face. Users of /v/ began photoshopping his face into pictures of various video games and proclaimed him to be “the king of /v/,” with the face of the original salad image becoming an exploitable template a month later. The spice picture also became a snowclone. template (shown bellow, right)

Another Ainsley picture that has gone viral is one where he puts oil on a pan, often acompained with the quote “Looks like it’s time to oil up”.

On July 2nd, 2013, Youtuber Daemon Harte uploaded a video called “Ainsley Harriott and his spicy meat”, consisting of a cut from Ainsley’s Barbecue Bible where he prepares jerk chicken and spreads his marinade over the chicken while making a dirty joke.^[5] As of March 21st, 2015, the video gathered over one milion views. On May 4th, 2014, youtuber h3h3Productions uploaded “ainsley harriott exe”, featuring supercuts from Ainsley’s Barbecue Bible. In less than a year the video gained over one milion views.

On April 19th, 2014, youtuber Filthy Frank uploaded a 10-minute version of his song “gibe de pusi b0ss”, featuring a close shot of Ainsley’s face on the spice photo. The video gained over 760,000 in less than a year. On October 1st, 2014 /r/ainsleyeveryday was created, posting the same photo of Ainsley with a white shirt everyday until March 2nd, 2015 (shown bellow, right).^[2]

Personal Life

Ainsley Harriott was born on February 28th, 1957 in London.^[1] He married former costume designer Clare Fellows, the youngest sister of comedian actor Graham Fellows. They have two children. In November 2012 the couple were reported to have separated while remaining on good terms.

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