How many years has this being going? It started it's life as a hoax email at least 5 years ago. Basically some sad idiot had typed out some recipes from Jamie's second book (The return of the naked chef, aka naked chef takes off) a few months after it was released and before the next book was released and the email tried to pass it off new recipes with some silly story about a disgruntled person at the publisher. See link below for this and other urban legend/bullshit email debunking.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/nakedchef.asp

Honestly, if anyone is stupid enough to buy something like that then they deserve to lose their money.

gregandjanine wrote:

I have reported this thread to Bob and the rest of the crew. I have also made  a report on Ebay and forwarded that report to Bob and the team.

It looked like a scam to me but I wasn't sure and didn't want to report it until I was positive. Pleased that someone here knew and has taken the initiative

Let's hope the listing is taken down now -- although I get the feeling that unless it's someone like Microsoft jumping on Ebay, they're not all that fast to remove listings like this one.

I looked the ebay link and decided to ask the seller a question,
I asked  it the book was 'for real' of the book and questioned that the photo is an old one.

                      ....THIS IS THE REPLY THAT I RECEIVED.......
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Item: *** THE LATEST JAMIE OLIVER COOK BOOK NAKED CHEF 2 *** (290104130325) 
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rickyg01403 is the seller.



yes it is for real. this book is not out yet, thats why you cant buy it anywhere else yet, it is due to come out at some point this year.

see this link for all of his old books, what makes you say the picture is old?

https://shop.jamieoliver.com/JamiesBook … kshop.jsp#

see... you cant even buy it on his own website yet. at the end of the day its only £1.99 and its worth it.

thanks

richard
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Details for item number: 290104130325
Item title: *** THE LATEST JAMIE OLIVER COOK BOOK NAKED CHEF 2 ***
Item URL: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? … L:RTQ:UK:1
End date:  Wednesday, 18 Apr, 2007 13:35:26 BST

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I have bought a copy to send directly on to mission control. ( if I can manage such a complicated computer skill!! , I am getting a bit ahead of myself I think as I have only just learned to cut and paste

Last edited by mummza (Sat 14 Apr 07 4:51pm)

Whilst I agree with you whole heartedly White Rabbit

I didn't know this hoax was in existence until I came on this site to check it out about a year ago..... It was sent to me in an email...  I thought it was odd when I found out about it.  It was only after I received a similar response from members, that I realised it was a hoax.

I think the person on Ebay has a hide to try and earn money from something that is fraud..... The reason why I have reported the matter to both Jamie's office and also to Ebay.

Janine