Chris Bavin

After a TV production company first stumbled across green grocer, Chris Bavin in 2011 he has gone from strength to strength and is the co-presenter of BBC1’s hugely successful series Eat Well for Less? with Gregg Wallace. The show has had incredible ratings and the accompanying book is a best seller.

In addition to Eat Well for Less? Chris also presents BBC2’s series Britain in Bloom and is co-judge on BBC1’s prime time competition series Britain’s Best Home Cook with Mary Berry and Angela Hartnett – presented by Claudia Winkleman. He is co-presenter of BBC1’s returning series Food: Truth or Scare with Gloria Hunniford and is also a regular guest and reporter for The One Show. Chris has presented Tomorrow’s Food with Dara O’Brian and The Truth about Meat;

Chris is the co-founder of ‘The Naked Grocer’ a retail business that was twice voted ‘National Independent Retailer of the Year’, as well as receiving the ‘Best Contribution to the Community’ award.

Chris’s first job was as a junior flower trader, a job he relished and excelled at. He spent much of his working day in various wholesale markets across the UK, places where Chris felt very much at home. Packed full of all the colourful characters and the buzz that a busy wholesale market provides, Chris felt he had found his vocation.