{"id":679600,"date":"2026-07-08T02:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679600\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:22:21","slug":"rick-stein-78-emotional-as-new-statement-issued-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679600\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Stein, 78, &#8217;emotional&#8217; as new statement issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The TV chef, who was born in Churchill near Chipping Norton, has been a regular on our screens for decades now.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 79-year-old has featured in numerous TV shows and travelled the world, most notably in his Long Weekend BBC series across Europe and his cooking adventures in India, to name a few.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He also has a business portfolio spanning Padstow, Marlborough, Newquay, Winchester, Australia and in Sandbanks in Dorset.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26255137.car-parts-giant-considering-closing-cowley-headquarters\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Car parts giant considering closing Cowley headquarters<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Over the weekend, Mr Stein visited his Sandbanks restaurant &#8211; on the exclusive millionaire&#8217;s peninsula in Poole Harbour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a statement on Instagram after the appearance, he said: &#8220;The magic of restaurants Sas [his wife] and I went to Rick Stein Sandbanks last night for a few drinks and nibbles with the regulars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was I have to admit rather emotional to realise how much the place means to them I guess for various reasons quite a few are on their own.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;What with a special sunset over Poole harbour and lots happy conversation\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I sat thinking special a restaurant can be good for the community. Thanks to @grazbakas and Kat who know everyone and a lovely team of very friendly staff and some great chefs who produced not only the nibbles but for us the Twice Cooked Crab souffl\u00e9 afterwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TV chef, who was born in Churchill near Chipping Norton, has been a regular on our screens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}