Jamie Oliver's US sob-fest gets South Park treatment

Cult TV cartoon South Park has poked fun at Jamie Oliver's recent sobbing on-screen breakdown - by cooking up a teary cameo role.

The episode, to be aired in the UK on Sunday, features Oliver trying to make everyone "healfy" but spending most of the show whimpering and crying.

Oliver is captured in comic form cowering as part of a spoof cooking show.

The celebrity chef broke down in tears on prime-time TV in the United States earlier this year as he tried to convert the country's fattest city to healthy eating.

Some of the residents of Huntington, West Virginia, refused to eat lettuce, while schoolchildren mistook tomatoes for potatoes.

The irreverent hit programme also includes South Park character Cartman dressing up as Gordon Ramsay and inadvertently attracting a professional camera crew to film "Hell's Kitchen Nightmares Iron Top Chef Cafeteria Throwdown Ultimate Cookoff Challenge".

The guise is a ploy by Cartman and his friend Stan to show food-obsessed Randy that he is a terrible cook and should put more effort into his relationship with Stan's mother.

The episode, called Creme Fraiche, aired on American TV last night and will be broadcast on Comedy Central on 10pm on Sunday, 21 November.