'Whore' Jamie in salmon farm row

They're a touchy lot, these celebrity chefs who seem to relieve all that tension in the kitchen by insulting each other.

Jamie Oliver is the latest to feel the wrath of a rival, being branded a 'Sainsbury's whore' by Clarissa Dickson Wright, the surviving half of TV's Two Fat Ladies.

The Fifteen boss was attacked for promoting salmon farming in his latest TV advert for the supermarket.

Environmentalists say the practice damages the sea bed and produces salmon that is not good enough to be served in restaurants.

Protesters handed out leaflets outside Fifteen yesterday.

Dickson Wright waded in, saying: 'I think he's a whore. Isn't that what whores do, take money for something they wouldn't do otherwise? Jamie has just sold his soul carte blanche to Sainsbury's and turns up wherever they want him. It makes me sad because he sold his talents.'

But Oliver's spokesman sniped back: 'I think she's just trying to put her name to something. She only seems to be in the papers these days if she's slagging someone off or saying how marvellous fox-hunting is.'

The row is just the latest in a long line of flare-ups between TV chefs.

Antony Worrall Thompson, Gary Rhodes and Egon Ronay have all lined up to insult Delia Smith, who, in turn, called Worrall Thompson 'just revolting'. Gordon Ramsay has launched typically venomous attacks on Ainsley Harriott, Raymond Blanc and Nigella Lawson.