Jay Rayner Biography
Jay Rayner is a culinary critic and journalist from England. In 1999, he was appointed restaurant critic for the Observer and has also published a number of books.
How old is Jay Rayner? – Age
He is 56 years old as of 14 September 2022. He was born in 1966 in the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom. His real name is Jason Matthew Rayner.
Jay Rayner Family – Education
He is the youngest son of journalist Claire Rayner and Desmond Rayner. His parents are Jewish. He was up in Harrow’s Sudbury Hill neighborhood and attended the independent Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School. He graduated in 1988 from the University of Leeds, where he studied politics and was the editor of the Leeds Student newspaper.
Jay Rayner Wife
He is married to Pat Gordon-Smith. The couple has two children including Eddie Rayner.
Jay Rayner Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $13 Million.
Jay Rayner BBC Radio
He won a Sony Radio Award in 1997 for Papertalk, a magazine show on BBC Radio Five Live about the newspaper industry that he hosted. He is the host of The Kitchen Cabinet on BBC Radio 4.
Jay Rayner Top Chef
He is the BBC magazine show The One Show’s food reporter, and he was a judge on the American show Top Chef Masters. Top Chef Masters is an American reality competition series that debuted on the cable network Bravo on June 10, 2009. It is a spinoff of the popular Bravo show Top Chef. Chefs battle against each other in weekly challenges in the series. The show differs from Top Chef in that it showcases younger professional cooks who are still on the rise in the food service sector.
Jay Rayner Podcast
Rayner conducts the Out to Lunch podcast, which features celebrity interviews in each episode.
Jay Rayner Career
After graduating, Rayner became a freelance journalist and wrote for publications like The Observer and The Independent on Sunday. He won the British Press Awards for Young Journalist of the Year in 1992. Before becoming the restaurant critic for The Observer in 1999, he was a feature writer for The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, and The Observer.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when many restaurants had to close, Rayner said he wouldn’t write bad reviews. He penned: This does not imply not including criticisms or giving favorable reviews to poor establishments. It simply indicates that I will not review and move on if I am unable to be generally positive.
Rayner has likewise composed for magazines including GQ, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, the New Legislator and Granta. His first book, The Marble Kiss, which came out in 1994, was considered for the Author’s Club First Novel Award. Day of Atonement, which came out in 1998, was considered for the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His first genuine book, Stardust Falling, was distributed in 2002; His third novel, The Apologist, came out in 2004 under the name Eating Crow in the United States.
Rayner was one of the board of pundits who made up the “foe” on the daytime cookery show Eating with the Foe, and plays out a comparative job on the UK rendition of MasterChef. On the first season’s episode titled “UK,” he served as a guest judge.
