Gino D'Acampo marks lookalike son Rocco's 18th birthday with cute throwback shot

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Gino D'Acampo marks lookalike son Rocco's 18th birthday with cute throwback shot

Gino D'Acampo celebrated a big family moment as son Rocco turned 18 by playing the embarrassing dad.

He offered a tribute to the teenager on Instagram with a sweet selection of throwback snaps.

The 46-year-old chef uploaded a photo planting a kiss on the baby's cheek taken back in 2005 when he was just a few months old.

They smiled for a selfie on a boat in another, with the third image taken as they filmed Gino's Italian Family Adventure in Napoli, Italy, last year.

Gino and wife Jessica also have son Luciano, 20, and daughter Mia, nine.

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Gino D'Acampo marks lookalike son Rocco's 18th birthday with cute throwback shotGino D'Acampo uploaded a photo of very young Rocco (Gino D'Acampo/Instagram)
Gino D'Acampo marks lookalike son Rocco's 18th birthday with cute throwback shotHe also shares son Luciano and daughter Mia with wife Jessica (WireImage)

But it's Rocco's big day and he captioned the photos: "Buon Compleanno… Happy 18th birthday @roccodacampo!"

Last year, Gino made headlines after confessing how disinterested he is in being a dad.

"I don’t want to say I don’t like children, because it’s not true - I don’t like the children when they’re children," he said on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast.

"I don’t want to do children things – colouring, all that c**p, glittering, not interested, never been interested, never, ever, ever.

Gino D'Acampo marks lookalike son Rocco's 18th birthday with cute throwback shotRocco has turned 18 - and dad wants to celebrate!

"I don’t have patience for kids. For me, they can come to me and start to talk to me sensibly after about 13 – they need to be teenagers.

"I’m more present now for my boys than I was before."

Gino met wife Jessica when he was a 17-year-old chef and she was a waitress in a restaurant Sylvester Stallone's Mambo King in Marbella.

He explained on Good Morning Britain: "I used to be the chef in the restaurant and my wife was the waiter. We used to meet in the meat fridge.

Gino D'Acampo marks lookalike son Rocco's 18th birthday with cute throwback shotThe Italian TV chef wished his boy a happy birthday (Gino D'Acampo/Instagram)

He continued to explain: "I used to put my meat and chicken in there and she would put the butter to serve to the customers in the fridge.

"So you know... you meet once, you meet twice, you meet three times and that's it, it happened in the meat fridge.

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"We kissed for the first time in the meat fridge. Surrounded by pork loins, beef chicken wings and all stuff like that!"

The couple got married in 2002 and have three children together, but somewhat surprisingly for a passionate Italian chef, Gino has confessed he is not a big fans of romance.

"I don’t care about flowers or chocolates or anything like that, that’s not me," Gino told The Mirror in 2014.

"I tell you what I do. I charge her electric toothbrush, because if I don’t she’ll never do it. I make sure I always do the petrol in her car because I know she hates that, and I clean her car every week."

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