Gino D'Acampo Slams 'Moron' Parents Who Raise Fussy Eaters

Gino D'Acampo has slammed ‘moron’ parents who ‘can’t be bothered to fight’ their fussy eater kids. 

The celebrity chef has claimed there’s ‘no such thing as a fussy kid’ and lays the blame with the parents for not doing enough to encourage them to eat what they’re given. 

Gino, 45, is dad to three kids Luciano, 19, Rocco, 16, and Mia, nine and insists that he didn’t give his offspring the option to be fussy. 

Speaking on the Sweat, Snot and Tears podcast, he said: “When people talk to me about fussy children with food and ask me, ‘What do I think?’ I tell them there is no such a thing as a fussy child. There isn’t.

“But there is a thing of moron parenting. By moron, I mean idiots."

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He went on: "A child doesn’t grow up fussy, it’s not possible. It’s the parents.

They can’t be bothered to fight, they can’t be bothered to have the argument at the table, they can’t be bothered to see their children go to bed without having any food. I can.”

Gino then shared an insight into the technique he used to ensure his kids didn’t grow up to be fussy about food, revealing that if his daughter chose not to eat her tea she’d be served up the same meal for breakfast. 

He told the podcast: “If you’re not hungry because you aren’t eating the ravioli, that means you can’t eat anything.

“Tomorrow instead of milk and cornflakes, what she’s going to find on the table? The same ravioli that was there last night. You only have to do it once.

“Of course, they will eat it because what they don’t want is to have the same ravioli at dinner time.

“I’m not comparing a dog to a child, for God’s sake, but it’s the same as when you have a little puppy. You only have to tell him off and pretend to smack him a couple of times not to do the wee on the floor.

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“Eventually, he’s not going to do the wee on the floor, he’s going to go outside.”

Last month, the telly chef ruffled some feathers over an ‘unnecessary’ comment he made to This Morning host Holly Willoughby. 

Appearing on the show, Gino started talking about the map of Italy but bizarrely used Holly’s body as a guide. 

It started off fairly normally - well, as normal as it could be - with him stating: "If your belly button is Rome, I was born in Naples, which is on your side, but I went to school where Vesuvius is, which is more inland."

This is when he really started to veer off-piste.

Gino continued: "So, I can technically say I spent my youth training and playing around your vagina."

Yikes. 

Topics: Celebrity, Food And Drink

Claire Reid

Claire is a journalist at LADbible who, after dossing around for a few years, went to Liverpool John Moores University. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and a whole load of debt. When not writing words in exchange for money she is usually at home watching serial killer documentaries surrounded by cats. You can contact Claire at [email protected]