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Jamie Oliver has withdrawn a young particular person’s e book he wrote from sale after criticism that it stereotyped First Nation Australians.

In his e book, Billy And The Yarn Damage out, the TV chef tells the story of a First Countries lady residing in foster care in an Indigenous neighborhood who gets kidnapped by the radical’s villain.

However the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Training Corporation (Natsiec) blasted the e book for contributing to the “erasure, trivialisation, and stereotyping of First Countries peoples and experiences”.

The physique’s chief executive, Sharon Davis, stated the e book “ignores the violent oppression of First Countries folks” and that its depictions of First Countries folks and cultural practices had been “irresponsible and negative, reflecting a profound lack of files and admire”, in accordance to The Guardian

In a assertion, Oliver, 49, stated: “I am devastated to own induced offence and apologise wholeheartedly.

“It used to be by no design my arrangement to misinterpret this deeply painful concern. Alongside with my publishers we own got determined to withdraw the e book from sale.”

A spokesman for writer Penguin Random Residence stated: “It is definite that our publishing requirements fell short on this event, and we have to always be taught from that and rob decisive motion.”

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The chef published his first kid’s e book, Billy And The Big Adventure, final twelve months and stated in a social media publish that he had “fastidiously chosen the font to invent sure the text is as sure as that you would possibly maybe presumably assume of” as folks with dyslexia, which Oliver has, can bag it laborious to be taught.

He is also effectively-acknowledged for fronting several TV sequence including Jamie’s Easy Christmas (2022), Jamie Cooks The Mediterranean (2023) and Jamie: Mercurial And Easy, which started airing on Channel 4 final month.

On the launch of his profession, he used to be acknowledged as The Bare Chef, after his 1999 e book and TV sequence of the identical title.