Lesley Waters (born 3 April 1960) is an

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. She regularly appeared on such cookery programmes as ''

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'', and is currently one of the featured chefs on '' This Morning''.

Career

Waters studied French Cuisine at

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for three years, before cooking in top hotels, and winning awards including a scholarship to the Hotel Intercontinental in

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. She then joined

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's restaurant, where she was promoted to senior chef. She then worked as a freelance corporate chef and caterer for government officials before joining Leith's School of Food and Wine as an instructor, rising to head teacher. Waters started in television in 1989 on various cable TV shows, before ''

'' and ''

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''.

Personal life

Waters is married to Tim, a photographer, and the couple have two children. They live in a manor house near Halstock,

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. The house is now the base for Waters' cookery school. A panel of dietary experts recently publicly praised Waters for the use of ‘good fats’ in her recipes.

References

External links

Profile at Lesley Waters Cookery SchoolInterview regarding her move to Dorset
1960 births Living people English television chefs Chefs of French cuisine {{England-tv-bio-stub