Part of Gino D’Acampo’s restaurant chain has been unable to pay former staff and the taxman £5million after racking up losses.
Celebrity chef Gino, 47, put his My Pasta Bar business into liquidation in 2022. The money owed includes £4.8m to trade creditors, £113,975 to HMRC and £53,304 to staff. The business was wound up this week and previous reports said 49 creditors were not paid.
The chain, which was launched in 2013 and offered simple pasta dishes, had London branches in Fleet Street, Leadenhall Market and Bishopsgate. Liquidators confirmed: “The realisations in the liquidation are insufficient to declare a dividend to creditors.”
In October 2020, D’Acampo received a bailout from Sir Malcolm Walker, founder of supermarket giant Iceland, and senior executive Tarsem Dhaliwal. The Family Fortunes host, who earns an estimated £2m a year, made his name on This Morning and won I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in 2009.
In January 2022, Gino, 47, said Covid led him to call time on the small chain. He clarified: “The Pasta Bar business has got nothing to do with any other business that I do. It’s a standalone business going into liquidation. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.”
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His publicist and agent declined to comment to the Mirror.
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