International chef and TV personality Jamie Oliver is in Huntington, West Virginia, cooking up a storm for his new reality TV series Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution . Produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions and Fresh One Productions, the show which is all about getting Americans to change the way they eat not only at home but also at school and work, is set to premier on Friday 26 March. “There’s an incredible community in Huntington, and I want this experience to be a celebration of what we can achieve when people come together,” Jamie says in an ABC press release.

While America is facing the very real problem of childhood obesity, across the pond the British are dealing with another problem. Apparently half of the country’s six-year-old girls want to be thinner. When I was six I was more concerned with Barbie than my weight, but a recent study conducted at Cambridge University has revealed that the nation’s young girls are scarily preoccupied with their weight, and actually think they’re overweight when they’re not.

TV presenter, Claire Sweeney, is looking fit and fabulous after following a 7-week fitness regime that got her in tip-top shape.

Sophie Dahl may be a high school dropout (actually she was expelled from school), but she’s also a successful former model and more recently a cookbook author. The blonde beauty recently explained the reason behind her debut as a culinary author – she used to have nightmares about food

It’s been revealed that Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown eats up to nine bananas a day in an attempt to lose weight in the run-up to the general elections in June this year. Apparently he’s using the fruit as a substitute for his addiction to KitKat chocolate bars. The British PM is under strict orders from his wife, Sarah, to cut out the chocolates after she found out that he would scoff down up to three a day, it was reported in The Sun newspaper.