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Jamie Oliver shares his weird funeral plans

The celebrity chef wants to be cremated in a pizza oven.

Jamie Oliver wants to be cremated in a pizza oven when he dies.

The TV chef made the odd revelation to the Daily Mail in a quirky Q+A.

“I’d come down the aisle to [the song] Mr Brightside, then we’d have [poem] Nothing Gold Can Stay and my kids and Jools would say a few words,” he said when asked about the order of service at his (hopefully distant) funeral.

“Jamie Cullum would sing Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer, then I’d be burnt in a wood oven – I’ve got to keep it culinary!”

And Jamie said he would like to be remembered as “a half-honest bloke who had a go”.

On a happier note, 41-year-old revealed his favourite childhood memory was convincing his now-wife Jools to date him when he was just 18.

“I’d been in love with her for about six months, but I wasn’t very confident with women – I sounded like Scooby-Doo whenever I spoke to one – so it took me ages to ask her. I took her to Browns restaurant in Cambridge and it was very exciting.”

The pair are expecting their fifth child any day now.

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