TV chef Ainsley Harriott is a vibrant and passionate chef who has graced our television screens for decades. Born in London to his mother Peppy and father Chester Leroy, a renowned Jamaican-born ...

We found James Harriott on the 1825 register, owning eight slaves. So we could confirm that Ebenezer's father, Ainsley's great-grandfather, had been a white slave owner. Much Jamaican genealogy ...

Ainsley Harriott has been the energetic and passionate chef on our TV screens for decades. Harriott was born in London to mother Peppy and father Chester Leroy, a famous Jamaican-born pianist and ...

Ainsley Harriott travelled to the West Indies to uncover his roots and soon discovered that Caribbean history isn't quite as 'black and white' as he'd imagined. Ainsley thought he already knew a ...

Ainsley Harriott became a household name back in the 1990s with shows such as BBC's Can't Cook, Won't Cook and Ready Steady Cook. He has topped the charts as a best-selling author and in 2020 was ...