Jamie Oliver started serving alcohol in his family pub when he was just 10-years-old.
The 39-year-old television chef said that he worked in the pub throughout his childhood to earn himself some pocket money.
The 'Jamie's Comfort Food' writer told The Daily Telegraph newspaper: "I was pulling pints at 10! I didn't feel put out. I loved it. I loved the concept of earning money."
Although he occasionally worked behind the bar, Jamie confessed that a lot of the time, he was made to do the jobs no one else wanted to do.
He said: "I was small and agile and keen - I'd clean parts of the chimney, get put in the big bins to dig out the crud on the bottom and polish brass in piss-stained toilets."
However, he was soon promoted from the toilets to the kitchen, which ignited his passion for food.
Jamie said: "Once I started doing veg prep I had to get in the kitchen, even though it was full of bad language and dirty jokes."
The father-of-four suggested that he wasn't always hard-working in the pub though, joking that he would have "live crab and lobster races on the kitchen floor because it was fish day on a Tuesday."
Admitting that he was a fan of the social aspect of his family pub, he added: "My three best friends were Cockneys and gypsies, and I used to hang out with the old-age pensioners."
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