Jamie Oliver tries naked cheffing to woo wife Jools and burns his sweetbreads

Jamie Oliver has confessed that he once burned his genitals while trying to woo his wife Jools.

The couple met in 1993 and married in 2000 and now have four children — Poppy, Daisy Boo, Petal and Buddy.

Recalling the incident, on an early date, the chef said: “I am a romantic, so I had cleaned the house, I had Sade on and I was cooking sea bass.

“I should add I was also completely naked apart from a bow on my manhood. I opened the oven and a jet of steam burnt my penis.

“It was really, really, really painful and I screamed, which wasn’t very romantic.

“I had to pack myself with frozen peas. I was so swollen and it was so painful.”

Oliver — appearing on the Graham Norton Show on BBC1 tonight — also revealed that he is considering getting a tattoo.

“I’m 40 next year and thought it might be a good idea,” he said. “It was a mid-life crisis thing. I’d have to put it somewhere my dad wouldn’t find out because he won’t like it and doesn’t believe in that.

“I wasn’t sure what I should have and someone suggested I tattoo ‘al dente’ on my private parts.”

Fellow show guest Sir Ian McKellen spoke of his disdain for working on the special effects-laden third and final instalment of The Hobbit series.

He said: “Filming with a green screen is the miserable part.

“At the end of the first day, I shed a tear and with my head in my hand said, ‘This is not why I became an actor,’ forgetting that the mics were still on.”