The celebrity chef, 47, has doubled his profits after it was suggested that he was unable to pay £5million to his former employees and in tax after liquidating his restaurant chain, My Pasta Bar, in 2022.
Gino D'Acampo, 47, has reportedly 'raked in £6million in the last two years,' according to a new report Accounts said 49 creditors were not paid, with £4.8million owed to trade creditors, £113,975 to HMRC and £53,304 to staff, according to reports. IRG is owned by Iceland founder Malcolm Walker and CEO Tarsem Dhaliwal, after Gino previously had a food range with the supermarket giant
'I get upset only in a way where you kind of go,"Wait a second, do you understand that to be a business person, what I do, unless you have some failures you will never be successful?"'Because nobody ever talks about me opening another restaurant again in Manchester - nobody ever talks about I'm going to open four new restaurants by the end of this year.'Everybody's very quick to point the finger and to say,"Ah, but, but, you closed this, you closed that".
Accounts from the parent company show it has £1.65m in investments, which includes £821,494 in property. 'Considering that I've just, as I've said, I've just opened a restaurant in Manchester last week, employed 45 new people in my new restaurant, you would think they should encourage me to say,"Gino, come on man, keep going, keep going. Don't worry about the failing one, just keep going".
READ MORE: Celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo 'is unable to pay former staff and the taxman' after My Pasta Bar chain winds up with £5million losses Advertisement 'We should acknowledge people failing but not pointing the finger like that, that is not a very nice way to do it and I don't buy into stuff like that anyway.'
This one received a £12.9million bailout by co-investors including Iceland bosses Mr Walker and Mr Dhaliwal.