The Plonker Club

While reading between the lines on some old google alerts, I was ecstatic to discover that new episodes of my favourite television show, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares have already been made! Yes that is the UK edition and not the bastardised over-hyped, poorly edited, super predictable US version!

The report talked about how a restaurant that was ‘rescued’ four months ago had Gordon Ramsay there four months later (from mid-December) to shoot his part of The Great British Food Fight. the restaurant is Silversmiths Restaurant in Sheffield City.

I can’t wait until I can go back and see a Kitchen Nightmare where I can learn something about restaurants and maybe a recipe or two, not just hyped up confrontations, a contrived story line mixed with renovations and a happily-ever-after ending. Not to mention the editing of fights where the peoples clothes change colour as they appear to make a number of exchanges, just one – before the revalation occurs (midway through the final service). Add to this the American arrogance of inviting Gordon Ramsay to your restaurant, then telling him he can’t cook, doesn’t know what he is talking about and that there is no problems because all of the customers love whatever the offend dish/feature is.

I only really watch the show because I am a Gordon Ramsay fan, and occasionally the script isn’t followed to closely.

In case you can’t tell, I’m not a big fan of the cookie cutter US version, it is like a cross between Jerry Springer and a renovation show, with lots of spoilers and recaps to fill in the time!

I’ll email Channel 4 and Optomen to see if I can find out when we can expect this! There will definitely be a counter on The Plonker Club homepage for this one, similar to the one we have for Hell’s Kitchen USA Season 5!

2009 is already becoming a great year!

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerlcub.com

Here is a picture from a great email that I received a few days ago from a friend – simply called Gordon Ramsay’s Latest Dish. Although I first said that I wouldn’t comment on Sarah Symonds and her claims of alleged infidelity, since I figured that Gordon has himself responded only with humour – see “The Story According to Gordon (Ramsay) – Well, sort of (http://www.theplonkerclub.com/wordpress/9/the-story-according-to-gordon-ramsay-%e2%80%93-well-sort-of-%e2%80%a6/), I thought this was okay.

I don’t know the source of the photo, so I can’t give anyone credit – but well done!

Enjoy

David Driscoll

The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com

It has been confirmed that the top rating show Hell’s Kitchen will be returning to television screens (not to mention youtube and torrent sites for all of us addicted overseas viewers!) in January of 2009.

According to the Fox website, Season 5 of Hell’s Kitchen will air Thursday January 29 at 9pm / 8pm Central Time

This show was apparently filmed right after the fourth season, and will air despite claims by some news outlets that reported shooting had been cancelled or postponed.

Casting for seasons 6 and 7 were held throughout the United States in October of this year and we can possibly expect to see another by the end of the year along with a new Kitchen Nightmares UK, Kitchen Nightmares USA and a new show called Man Camp.

Let’s hope that Gordon isn’t being overexposed (no pun intended!)

Check out the countdown at the homepage of the Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite – The Plonker Club and www.theplonkerclub.com

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Two weeks ago, if anyone had asked you, what first comes to mind when I mention the name ‘Gordon Ramsay”, most people would say great cooking and swearing – and not necessarily in that order! (This may now have changed thanks to Sarah Symonds and her claims).

While Gordon has copped a spray from many a do-gooder (especially in Australia) for his ‘choice phrases of encouragement’, no one would doubt that his colourful language and intensity have become a large part of his public persona. This has become even more obvious as advertisers are now using it as part of their marketing campaigns.

This first picture I saw on the back of a bus in Sydney – and I only had to run half a block in order to snap it with my mobile phone. It seems the publishers of his latest cookbook Gordon Ramsay – Cooking for Friends have embraced some of Gordon’s signature phrases (or maybe just jumped on the bandwagon!).

The second is an ad that is currently running on the Lifestyle channel, which in Australia, plays many of Gordon’s shows – currently the latest season of Hells Kitchen USA.

Enjoy, you bunch of $@#%@*&!

David Driscoll

The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com

In a recent survey by onepoll – Gordon Ramsay beat all comers to win UK’s sexiest chef as voted by 4 000 women. One recent article quoted a Telegraph representative as saying that his new ‘bad boy’ image may have further increased his popularity. Here is the top ten.

1. Gordon Ramsay
2. Jean-Christophe Novelli
3. Marco-Pierre White
4. James Martin
5. Jamie Oliver
6. Raymond Blanc
7. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
8. Gary Rhodes
9. Ainsley Harriott
10. Simon Rimmer (ANI)

Regarding GQ magazine and their ‘Man of the Year” awards, although Gordon did make the list, along with the likes of Barack Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Phelps, he didn’t win one of the coveted titles – this one was ‘Prick’ of the Year!!

The full article can be seen at http://men.style.com/gq/features/moty/2008/portfolio

David
www.theplonkerclub.com
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite.