31 Oct, 2022 @ 17:27
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UNITED AGAIN: Celebrity Chef Steven Saunders and TOWIE’s Elliott Wright team up at Olivia’s on the Costa del Sol

Elliott Wright
EXCITED: Olivia's La Cala boss Elliott Wright is looking forward to June after opening up on Monday

THEY had both been interviewed – and even written columns – for the Olive Press when they opened restaurants on the Costa del Sol back in 2015.

Now Ready Steady Cook presenter Steven Saunders is joining TOWIE star Elliot Wright at his popular Mijas restaurant Olivia’s La Cala.

In an intriguing link up, Saunders has taken over executive duties in the kitchen.

Elliott Wright
EXCITED: Olivia’s La Cala boss Elliott Wright is looking forward to teaming up with Steven Saunders

It comes after the celebrity chef had closed his own La Cala restaurant, Little Geranium, and moved back to England during the pandemic.

Delighted to be back, he told the Olive Press: “This is home to me – I couldn’t wait to get back.”

Steven Saunders Twitter
‘Back’home – Steven Saunders. Twitter

Wright meanwhile added he was the perfect fit to take his restaurant to the next level after recovering from a fire that gutted the premises.

“We have come a long way since we rose like a Phoenix from the ashes, and now Steven is creating a new menu to keep us on an upward path,” he said.

Olive Press Front Elliott Wright Steven Saunders

Here, the pair appear on a front page from 2015, with fellow TV presenter Nick Knowles as the filling in a delicious celebrity sarnie.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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