Patricia Llewellyn is a British television producer and current Managing Director of the television production company, Optomen. She is best known for her work on cookery programmes and has a reputation as a "starmaker", having built hit series around previously unknown chefs, notably Two Fat Ladies and The Naked Chef for which she won a BAFTA for Best Features programme in 2000. Her recent credits include Heston's Feast for chef Heston Blumenthal, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares plus long running food magazine series The F Word for chef, Gordon Ramsay. Llewellyn has also had success in finding on-screen talent in other areas: Optomen's BBC2 series "Mary Queen Of Shops" launched the career of Mary Portas, she also launched the television career of archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver. Llewellyn also Executive Produced "The F**king Fulfords", a BAFTA nominated Cutting Edge for Channel 4 that made Francis Fulford and his family national talking points. Outside of the UK, Patricia Llewellyn is Executive Producer on "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares", "Masterchef" and "Hotel Hell" for FOX Broadcasting in the USA.
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