Gino D'Acampo cooks up a storm in Cheshire before leaving for Italy after This Morning announcement

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Celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo served up a new menu of Italian treats at his Alderley Edge restaurant Luciano - before jetting out to Italy for a summer of huge new TV projects. Gino shocked viewers of This Morning earlier this week when he said it was his "last show" due to his departure to his native Italy for a raft of new projects.

But Italian chef Gino tells the MEN it's not a permanent departure from the daytime show. He even hopes to film some "live from Italy" segments to send back to This Morning in the weeks to come, before a return to the ITV studios in September.

The reason for his departure to Italy? He's cooking up an exciting new TV series for fans - combining his passion for food with, well, passion itself.

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He explains: "I'm filming a new dating cooking show - called Cooking Up Love with Gino. I'm basically building a cookery school, and then eight single people will be joining me to run the cookery school and they will find a date as well.

"If you've ever seen the movie Eat, Pray, Love, think along those lines." While he'll be missing from his cookery appearances on This Morning for a while, he is hoping for a live link-up saying: "I've convinced the producers to do a live with Holly and Phil at some point too."

The 45 year old Italian chef had revealed his departure on the ITV show this week. Wandering around the stuido he told Holly and Phil: “I was just walking around because I am a little bit sad today... because I am going to go to Italy very soon, in the next couple of days, so this is my last This Morning."

Looking genuinely surprised, the hosts both asked: "Until when?" Gino came back, "until