Fake TV chef given porridge

A CONMAN chef from North Lincolnshire who duped his way on to TV by claiming to have worked with the industry's biggest names has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

Conman Kenny Goldsmith, 40, of Low Street, Winterton, appeared on Saturday Kitchen and UKTV Food as well as the French TV show Cuisine France.

He boasted of having cooked alongside the likes of Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Ken Hom and the late French star chef Bernard Loiseau.

But far from helping to train Jamie Oliver, as he claimed, Goldsmith honed his supposed skills working in a prison kitchen and was a well-seasoned fraudster, Lincoln Crown Court heard yesterday.

Goldsmith was jailed after admitting conning a string of pubs, restaurants and suppliers out of more than £100,000.

His partner Kristy Emmans, 38, of Patrick Street, Grimsby, who also admitted fraud and theft charges was jailed for 18 months.

Judge Richard O'Rorke told the pair: "You are both financial locusts grazing off the back of other people's hard work and savings. This was ruthless and cynical fraud."

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