cookbooks and the perishing of his restaurant business.
Whether or not they bring a valid explanation to the table, the chef's comments were somewhat more nuanced than squarely blaming Brexit - he referred to a mix of factors including the rise of the gig economy and the death of the high street.
"The world changed, the high street changed - it started to become uberfied - our competitors changed, and we looked less different to them as we did in the beginning," he said.
For him, Brexit was more the straw that broke the camel's back.
"Then, when there's that chain reaction, throw a bit of Brexit in, say the B word, confidence goes and people's habits changed."
While whether or not it directly affected Jamie's Italian, which went into administration in May and was recently sold off in its entirety, research does suggest that Britain's exit from the European will have a negative impact on the UK hospitality industry.
A study by MCA Insight published recently stated that the value of the UK's eating and drinking out industry has already dropped by £1.4 billion as a result of the vote, and could fall by another £5.4 billion by 2020 in the advent of a no-deal Brexit.
