"I want to encourage people to enjoy cooking and sharing great, inexpensive, easy to prepare meals with family and friends. Cooking should be celebrated as an everyday thing"Manu Feildel has become one of the most popular personalities on Australian television as co-host of the successful “My Kitchen Rules” series on Channel 7, which debuted in 2010. The tenth series went to air on Seven in January 2019. The series has been nominated for several AACTA and Logie awards since 2012, winning Most Popular Reality Program in 2014. In late 2017 Manu debuted with Pete Evans as the co-host for ‘My Kitchen Rules New Zealand’. Manu has written 4 cookbooks - Manu’s French Kitchen, Manu’s French Bistro and French for Everyone and More Please! After landing in Australia in 1999 it was in 2004 that Tony Bilson approached Manu to open his new venture Bilsons at the Radisson Hotel. In its second year of opening, the restaurant won 2 Chef's Hats, and in its third year, this accolade had increased to 3 Chef's Hats. In 2008 Bilson's won three chefs hats for the third year running. In March 2009 Manu opened his first restaurant L’etoile in Paddington, Sydney, were he was awarded a Chef's Hat in August 2009. In addition to My Kitchen Rules Manu is known from many other Australian TV appearances on TEN's Ready Steady Cook, The Circle, Sunrise, Seven’s Morning show and 9am with David & Kim. Manu won the 2011 series of Dancing with the Stars. Other TV credits include co-host of “Boys Weekend” which now airs to over 100 countries worldwide. In 2013 he recorded the first 2 part series of a 2 episode special on Channel 7, My France with Manu, to date he has recorded 2 further series, with Series 3 airing in 2016. In 2017 Manu realised a long held dream to follow Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days on a gastronomic world tour – in ‘Around the World with Manu’. In 2018 Manu was seen discovering the culinary delights and new cultural experiences in ‘Manu’s American Road Trip’