Who is Chris Bavin and is the TV presenter married?
NAKED Grocer Chris Bavin has worked in the market of fruit and veg for an incredible 20 years.
Here is what you need to know about the food expert, who is joining Fred Siriex on BBC Two’s latest series Remarkable Places To Eat.
Who is Chris Bavin?
Greengrocer Chris has made his living importing and selling fresh produce to wholesale markets across the UK.
In 2009, he and wife Millie Bavin opened their own high street greengrocers The Naked Grocer, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
The Naked Grocer was a finalist for the Independent Retailer Of The Year Award three times, winning the accolade two years in a row.
The parents closed the doors to their shop in 2015, to focus on direct home and office deliveries from a farm in Sunbury.
Their products include milk, eggs, fresh fruit and salad boxes, as well as soup ingredients, juicing ingredients, jars of Cobham honey and weaning boxes.
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What TV programmes has Chris Bavin been in?
Since 2013, Chris has co-presented Eat Well For Less? alongside MasterChef’s Gregg Wallace.
The show helps families across Britain reduce their shopping budgets without compromising on quality.
In one episode, the TV presenters helped a mum who was cooking THREE different meals a night slash her annual food spend by £4,000.
Another family HALVED their food bill, saving £6,500-a-year, thanks to Gregg and Chris.
Chris has also presented Food: Truth Or Scare, with Gloria Hunniford, since 2016, and Tomorrow’s Food, with Dara O Briain, Angela Hartnett and Dr Shini Somara.
He is currently writing a cookbook, while a number of his recipes are available on the BBC Food website.
He also presented BBC Two’s Britain In Bloom contest in April.
Is Chris Bavin married and does he have children?
Chris Bavin married wife Millie Bavin in August 2011.
Over the course of their decade of marriage, Chris and Millie have had three children.
They’re most recent child was born on Thursday, 9 January 2020.
Prior to the couple’s business endeavour with the Naked Grocer, Millie worked as a fashion buyer and costume designer for film and TV – and has also studied for a diploma in diet and nutrition.