By Rob Cooper UPDATED: 20:36 EST, 24 January 2012 One of Jamie Oliver's apprentice chefs has been found dead in a garden close to his home three months after he vanished. The remains of Kevin Boyle, 26, were found in Coulsdon, south London, just before the celebrity was due to make a missing person appeal on This Morning on ITV on Monday. Kevin had cooked for the Prince of Wales, former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Oprah Winfrey after training with the celebrity chef on the Channel 4 series Jamie's Kitchen. Tragic: Jamie Oliver with his trainee Kevin Boyle when he was 17 at the opening of Jamie's Fifteen restaurant in Hoxton
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Jamie Oliver pays tribute to 'my friend Kevin Boyle' and says he is 'deeply saddened' by the tragic news
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Chef was due to make emotional appeal for missing Kevin, 26, on ITV's This Morning but body was discovered hours later
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Kevin was a trainee on Jamie's Kitchen on Channel 4 in 2002
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Second trainee chef tragedy to hit Jamie Oliver: Christopher Pethick, 20, found hanged in 2008
Celebrity restaurant: Kevin, 26, had worked at @placeholder's restaurant Fifteen in centreal London after being recruited as one of 15 trainees in 2002 on Channel 4's Jamie's Kitchen