{"id":96138,"date":"2014-12-30T04:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=96138"},"modified":"2014-12-30T04:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T09:11:58","slug":"chef-jamie-oliver-had-to-turn-down-hobbit-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/12\/30\/96138-chef-jamie-oliver-had-to-turn-down-hobbit-cameo\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Jamie Oliver had to turn down Hobbit cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HTBOTFA-TRLR2-0012-cb222072-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-94528 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HTBOTFA-TRLR2-0012-cb222072-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HTBOTFA-TRLR2-0012-cb222072-1024x472.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HTBOTFA-TRLR2-0012-cb222072-600x276.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HTBOTFA-TRLR2-0012-cb222072.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> The Sydney Morning Herald reports that British chef Jamie Oliver had to turn down the opportunity to cameo in The Hobbit due to work comittments. Unlucky!<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver reveals he was offered a hobbit role in one of Peter Jackson&#8217;s blockbuster Tolkien adaptations, but rejected the chance due to work commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was Oliver could play a hobbit in exchange for cooking director Peter Jackson a 50th birthday meal in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The British cook told US actress Kate Hudson about the deal with the Lord of the Rings director on his new Channel 4 show, Jamie And Jimmy&#8217;s Friday Night Feast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The worst thing that happened to me was that I got phoned up by the exec producer and asked did I want to go and cook for Peter Jackson&#8217;s birthday, the big birthday,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if I did, they would fly me over and I could be a hobbit in the film. But I was working, I couldn&#8217;t get out of it. I really wanted to do it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/movies\/jamie-olivers-disappointment-over-the-hobbit-role-20141230-12fbwz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Join us in Los Angeles in February at The One Last Party<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/one-last-party-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"one last party logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-94754 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/one-last-party-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/one-last-party-logo-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/one-last-party-logo-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> We&#8217;re hosting a Party of Special Magnificence next February &#8212; a toast to all SIX movies, both LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-one-last-party-there-and-back-again\/x\/326973#home\" target=\"_blank\">Visit our Indiegogo campaign page to grab your tickets and help make it happen &#8212; so we can all celebrate Peter Jackson\u2019s Middle-earth movies together!<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Morning Herald reports that British chef Jamie Oliver had to turn down the opportunity to cameo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":94529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[114,1300,4,74,148],"tags":[2739],"class_list":["post-96138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-hobbit","tag-jamie-oliver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HTBOTFA-TRLR2-0001-cb2220721.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-p0C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96140,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96138\/revisions\/96140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}