[1][2][3][4] He was educated at Eton College and the University of Kent, where he 'wrote a stupid kind of gossip column in the student newspaper.
He sets the brief for one group of quarter finalists, and acts as the third judge alongside John Torode and Gregg Wallace.
[11] He has since joined The Daily Telegraph as a restaurant critic, and hosts a dining programme with the paper called William Sitwell's Supper Club.
[15] Richard Wilkins, the chef of 104 Restaurant Notting Hill, took umbrage with Sitwell's views in the Telegraph and took Sitwell to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), which found, after an investigation, that the newspaper accurately reported the situation and did not breach its policies.
Writing ahead of the 2024 general election, he stated that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt should "go out in a blaze of Conservative economic glory."
Sitwell added that Hunt "could slash taxes, hand power to the regions (giving Councils real power to make a difference), roll out actual, working broadband (in rural areas and on trains), cancel HS2, stop the self-diagnosed as mentally oppressed from getting sick notes from their pliant GPs, champion our cities as places for the super-wealthy to invest and unlock the barriers to building development.