Taste-In, Taster Olly Smith.
Olly Smith is a uniquely enthusiastic British TV presenter currently hosting Iron Chef UK for Channel 4. Olly also appears regularly on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen as well as being the host of Gordon Ramsay's Taste of Christmas, MasterChef Live for the BBC, Taste of London for Channel 4 and the F-Word Live with Channel 4. Olly also appears as a pundit on BBC Breakfast, Sky News and across the nation on channels such as BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4.
Olly writes a weekly wine column for The Mail on Sunday's Live Magazine reaching 5.3 million readers each week. Olly is also a columnist for Sainsbury's Magazine reaching 3.9 million readers every month.
Olly's new book 'Eat &Drink' is published by Headline in May 2010 which he also illustrated and is a treasure trove of recipes, wine tips and tales of adventure from Olly's travels across the high seas of flavour. Olly is launching his first wine bar and eatery 'The Glass House' on board the luxury cruise liner Azura with P&O Cruises in April 2010.
In 2009 for his work in food and wine, Olly won the prestigious International Wine & Spirits Communicator of the Year award, an honour he described as being like "surfing all the way to the shores of Happyland".
Before romping onto our screens as a TV presenter, Olly previously wrote for TV and film for shows such as Pingu, Charlie & Lola, as well as a single day gag-writing on the Oscar-winning animated feature 'Wallace & Gromit Curse of the Were-Rabbit'. While producing, writing and voicing a short animation called 'The Fly Who Loved Me' in support of international charity UNICEF, Olly also got to meet his hero Sir Roger Moore which was completely awesome.
Olly loves music (he was a Chorister at King's College Cambridge and the Top Music Scholar at Charterhouse singing and playing the French Horn, piano and organ). Olly also loves keeping pigs, fishing, rocking out on his guitar, watching movies and learning to play golf.
Olly is a well-known TV presenter and wine expert.