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Celeb chef in hot water

His charity begins far from home.

A London celebrity chef who trots around the globe for African kids was arrested for stiffing his own 16-year-old Brooklyn son out of $93,000 in support, The Post has learned.

UK foodies’ darling Bjorn van der Horst — who used to co-own an eatery with “Hell’s Kitchen” star chef Gordon Ramsay — was about to step aboard a London-bound plane at Kennedy Airport Wednesday night when city sheriffs nabbed him.

At a Brooklyn Family Court hearing yesterday, a disheveled van der Horst, 39, was ordered to cough up $57,000 and surrender his passport, officials said.

He was then hauled off to “The Tombs,” the Manhattan Detention Complex, a Correction spokesman said. His next hearing scheduled for Wednesday.

“This is somebody at the higher end [who] lives the good life,” said Bruce Young, a lawyer for the chef’s ex-wife Yael Bizouati and her son. “I’m sure he was expecting to take a cross-Atlantic flight, not sit incarcerated.”

The handsome and “seductively sweet” chef, who operates the high-end Eastside Inn in London and allegedly hauls in more than $15,000 a week, has been alarmingly cheap when it comes to his son, Young charged.

The deadbeat chef has run up a $93,000 tab in unpaid child support over the years

He was supposed to be paying $2,950 a month. But records show he coughed up less than $800 in three payments last year, and around $1,500 in two others.

“He just never paid anything that he was supposed to pay,” Young said.

But it’s the hypocrisy in van der Horst’s work for the UK-based charity “The Great Football Giveaway” — which provides soccer balls to needy kids — that’s truly galling, Young said.

“He was bringing free soccer balls to Africa, which is a very noble thing,” Young said. “But when you’re not paying your son’s own child support, it seemed [to be] disregarding the immediacy of one’s own family and the responsibilities that we all have.”

In messages sent to friends and potential donors in the fall, van der Horst gushed: “I know that in my little community, it’s the little things I do every day that make a difference.”

Young said van der Horst has been a deadbeat since 2005. But when his ex-wife got word he’d be in town for the holidays, a judge issued an arrest warrant and cops were waiting when van der Horst, his wife, Justine, and a business partner arrived at the airport.

City Finance Commissioner David Frankel, whose agency oversees city sheriffs, said the city will do whatever it takes to nab those who owe money.

“If you’re within our jurisdiction, we’re going to come and find you and you’re much better off finding us before we find you,” Frankel said.

Additional reporting by William J. Gorta

sgoldenberg@nypost.com