Jamie Oliver reveals he’s homeschooling his five children in isolation amid coronavirus

Jamie Oliver is in isolation with his family due to the coronavirus epidemic. 

And the 44-year-old chef has revealed that his full house is a little manic now that his children are being homeschooled. 

The chef shares five children with wife Jools, 45 – Poppy, 18, Daisy, 16, Petal, 11, Buddy, 9, and River, 3.

Jamie tells Adelaide Now of the situation at his Essex home at the moment: ‘I mean with five kids I’m not going to lie, it’s chaos!’ 

The TV star went on: ‘We’re trying to keep the school routine going and do lots of activities. 

‘We’ve gone a bit old-school and been doing stuff like playing Connect 4 and we even made tie-dye t-shirts.’

Jamie went on to say that while his wife is doing a lot of tidying, some of his children have taken an interest in their dad’s favourite pastime – cooking.  

‘Jools is in cleaning overdrive and [son] Buddy’s been helping me out in the kitchen – he loves it,’ the British cook told the paper. 

Jamie is launching a new series of cooking specials, Jamie: Keep Cooking And Carry On, which will focus on cooking while in lockdown. 

The chef says the recipes are ‘really bendy’ and adaptable, allowing for easy substitutions, as he understands many ingredients are hard to get these days. 

The episodes were made in just a handful of days before he had to go into lockdown, when the chef’s specials normally take months. 

Some of the recipes on offer include pasta and bread made from scratch.   

Jamie shares his brood of five with wife Jules – the pair met way back when they were just 17 and were married in 2000.