ITV ‘poaches well-liked farmer to entrance new cooking present’ after James Martin revealed he is taking a TV break amid most cancers battle

In keeping with a brand new report, ITV has poached a preferred farmer from rival channels to entrance a model new cooking present, which is ready to launch in February.

It has been alleged that Jimmy’s Farm star, Jimmy Doherty, 48 – who normally seems on BBC or Channel 4 – has been signed as much as host a brand new five-episode ITV cooking present, titled Jimmy’s Style of Florida. 

The information come as celeb chef James Martin, 51, lately introduced he can be taking a break from TV amid his most cancers battle. 

In keeping with the The Solar, Jimmy’s new ITV present was unveiled earlier this week at Go to Florida’s World Journey Market dinner in London.

Footage is alleged to have proven the farmer showcasing his new journey – starting off in Pensacola, Florida earlier than travelling across the nation and ending his journey in Miami.

Simply days in the past, James shared an replace on his most cancers battle with followers, saying he’s ‘happening a bit of break’ from work within the coming weeks.

The TV chef, took his tour present to Liverpool’s Philharmonic Corridor on Monday and gave a heartfelt message to followers about his well being whereas on stage.

In keeping with The Each day Mirror, he stated: ‘On a private observe, I simply needed to say thanks for 30 years of tv. For me personally, I have been by a whole lot of s**t with most cancers however I am getting sorted on the finish of subsequent month.

‘I will probably be again preventing on the finish of February however I am happening a bit of little bit of a break to get that sorted. I simply needed to say thanks for all of your assist and all of your messages.’

Martin landed in sizzling water earlier this yr when his foul-mouthed rant at his TV crew was laid naked by a rare leaked tape recorded shortly after his shock most cancers prognosis.

The TV presenter, who’s on the centre of a bullying storm following allegations he intimidated workers on his meals present James Martin’s Spanish Journey, revealed that he had an operation to take away the facial most cancers after his prognosis in 2018.

The shock admission got here after a rare tape was leaked to The Solar the place Martin berated his TV crew in a foul-mouthed rant over a blocked drain.

He advised the newspaper that the outburst was the end result of a string of unlucky occasions in his life, which started with the demise of his grandfather, then was adopted by a house invasion by masked burglars, and eventually his most cancers prognosis.

He stated: ‘I used to be then identified with most cancers on my face and I needed to have surgical procedure, which I could not do till two days earlier than Christmas once we had completed filming. Since then it has returned on a number of events and I’ve to have common therapies.’

The abusive ten-minute tirade at workers throughout a Zoom name in 2018. which occurred throughout the manufacturing of his present, James Martin’s Saturday Morning, occurred on a heated Zoom name in 2018 – the identical yr he had surgical procedure for his most cancers.

Martin stated he ‘wholly regrets’ getting offended, and agreed ‘classes have been discovered.’

Afterwards, The Each day Mail solely revealed he might face being axed by ITV after senior bosses have been left livid at his behaviour.