MASTERCHEF winner Kenny Tutt’s restaurant business has gone bust owing over £1 million to the taxman, bank, employees and even loyal customers.
Last month, Tutt was forced to defend the closure of his two restaurants, Pitch and Bayside Social, both in Worthing, west Sussex, amid claims that he’d left workers in the lurch with monies owed and some were forced to use food banks.
Now we can reveal that Tutt’s firm Pitch Foods Ltd is being wound up in a creditor’s voluntary liquidation with a huge number of debts.
Employees will be first in the queue for any recompense as the preferential creditors as they are owed £35,689 in wage arrears, holiday pay and pension schemes.
Only £17,732 in assets is currently available to pay this back, according to the liquidator’s statement of affairs filed at Companies House.