Rick Stein, Cornwall-based celebrity chef, was left distraught when two thieves stole his trademark Land Rover from a hotel in Italy.
The thieves broke into the car park of the hotel in Puglia, Italy where Stein and his production team were staying to film his new series, Rick Stein’s Mediterranean.
The chef’s distinctive blue Land Rover Defender, costing about £30,000, contained camera equipment and Stein’s favourite blue shirt, which the chef often wore onscreen.
Stein said: “The locals in Puglia are lovely people and the food is fabulous but this has left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth.
”Our parting shot is a sad-looking me, sitting on my suitcases with no Land Rover. The open-top Jeep we’ve hired to go to Corfu just isn’t the same.”
It is unlikely the thieves knew of the Defender’s celebrity status when they stole it, according to the director of the series, David Pritchard.
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