J amie Oliver has opened about the impact feuds with numerous other celebrity chefs have had on him over the years.

Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Oliver said he was "destroyed" after his "hero" Marco Pierre White slammed him publicly but had happily reconciled with Gordon Ramsay after years of exchanges.

The 49-year-old told the self-titled podcast's host it was his wife, Jools Oliver, and Ramsay's wife, Tana Ramsay, who stepped in and encouraged them to patch things up.

"I was a target [for] probably 10 years, I think, it was regular," Oliver said of Ramsay.

"I generally used to bite [back] once a year, and then that used to set him off for another year ... I think it kind of generated the noise, it was serving its purpose for him - I mean, I'd have to ask Gordon what it was all about.

"Cause we never fell out, we got on for the first couple of years, and then - as he did more TV - it just went on and on and on, and it was quite, it was painful but in the end it was Jools and his wife Tana that sorted it out."

Oliver revealed some of his five kids are friends with some of Ramsay's six children and chat on social media.

"It was like, 'come on dads, grow up' so I think that both of us got a telling off, and then we went to have a drink and put it all to rest and let bygones be bygones," he said.

Oliver revealed when his Jamie's Italian chain went under, Ramsay was "very supportive" and "very kind" sending him messages and said they were still friends.

However, that's not the case with Marco Pierre White. Oliver said he was "destroyed" to hear his "hero" slam him in the press and didn't know what sparked it as they'd never worked together.

"He doesn't like me at all, still doesn't," Oliver told Theroux when asked about it.

But the chef said, "that's fine, I don't need anything from him".

"I still think he was like a game changer, he was still my hero for that period of my life but that's life, and it's not just Marco, it's lots of people," Oliver said.

His comment provided the perfect segue for Theroux to ask about the late Anthony Bourdain, who had also publicly slighted the British TV personality before apologising to him.

Oliver was also a fan of the American chef, whose memoir Kitchen Confidential was going to be the first narrative book the dyslexic Oliver had read cover-to-cover, aged 27.

But, he revealed he never finished the book because when he was three-quarters of the way through - while on his honeymoon - a "double-page spread" of Bourdain slating him came out and he never picked the book up again.

"[It] just absolutely brutally destroyed me," he recalled.

Oliver revealed that years later, while the pair were in Miami at a food festival, Bourdain came over to apologise to him and they shared a hug.

"He just went into this speech about getting it wrong and that he apologised profusely for everything that he'd done," Oliver recalled.

The celebrity chef said he believed because he got his big break in TV so early on in his career, with The Naked Chef, he was seen as either a sell out or less of a chef by others in the industry who had built up successful restaurants or had Michelin stars after years of grafting.

"You always hate what's on the other side and they all say, 'I'd never do TV' [but] they all do, by the way. They all do. They all change. But to have that apology was epic for me, it was so epic and it meant such a lot," he said.

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