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As we have featured when informing you of past try-outs, some of the questions can be a bit wacky – here are my picks from the MasterChef show that Gordon Ramsay will be hosting in February 2010 (not sure when it will air though!) Full form can be found here!

How did you hear about casting for “MasterChef”(please be specific)?

Do you have any obligations that would prevent you from being gone from your home and job for an extended period of time? If so, please explain.
What excuse could you give for them to have you on the show if you couldn’t comply???

If NO, what is your cooking background (cookbooks, self taught, internet, family recipes)?
Yep, I cook on the internet and have 5 stars on all levels of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen game!

Do you have a favorite chef? If!so, list whom and why:
Will anyone get this question wrong??

Describe your feelings about Chef Gordon Ramsay?
See above!

Describe a major issue that has affected your life. Do you still face this issue?
WTF?

Do you have tattoos? Y/N! Comments:
See above

Have you had plastic surgery? Y/N Comments:
WTFF?

Have you ever hit someone in anger or self defense? YES/NO
If so, please provide details below!(i.e. year, how it happened)
I ain’t nobody’s Bitch!

If chosen to be a contestant on “MasterChef,” is there any part of your life that you would prefer not to share on camera?!(i.e., social organizations, activities, personal history, friends, family,!etc.)
I wonder if Jerry Springer asks the same questions??

List your three (3) closest male friends whom we could call as character references. Please list their names and contact information
List your three (3) closest female friends whom we could call as character references. Please list their names and contact information
Would it be more worrying if they said the same things about you?

Just getting through the application form seems to be an ordeal!

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

In an article on the Business week website (much more reliable than and English Tabloid!) Gordon Ramsay talks candidly about how bad the last year had been financially, amazing considering how bad 2008 was for him!

In fact, the reality is that Gordon Ramsay’s troubles in 2009 flowed over directly from 2008 and opening eight restaurtants just prior to the global economic crisis (note: owning the restaurants – not just consulting like some of his contempories). This is the story of how Gordon Ramsay Holdings was advised to consolidate their debts and file for bankrupcy – something which Gordon said he would not agree to! Gordon spent the first 3 months of filming Hell’s Kitchen in the USA and then hours at night on the phone with business partner and father-in-law Chris Hutcheson, not to mention early morning runs to ‘burn off the stress!’.

The story also summaries Gordon Ramsay’s current status – twenty restuarants worldwide, five international television shows, twenty three cookbooks (and two biographies) in eighteen languages plus multiple endorsements.

The article also gives some insight into Gordon Ramsay’s television earnings
- In the UK £2 000 000 annually from Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word.
- £25 000 000 in UK cookbook sales.
- £3 000 000 in endorsements.
- $9 000 000 from US shows.

Check out this great article: Gordon Ramsay’s Recipe for Redemption

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

The Plonker Club – the home the Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite has launched its audio and video podcasts and plans to release them weekly.

This makes it easier than ever to stay up to date with all Gordon Ramsay news – whether it be about his infamous television shows like Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares, new television shows such as Gordon’s Great Escape (in India) or the new Live cookalong shows scheduled for Australia and the USA this year. Information on Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant empire (including reviews), numerous cookbooks as well media and live appearances will only be a mouse click away.

You can subscribe via our iTunes channel for the audio podcast or to the YouTube page for the video version.

You will also get updates about The Plonker Club including the ever expanding Gordon Ramsay Recipe Database and slowly evolving unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fans Clothing Line.

Check out the initial versions here – the Audio Podcast and Video Podcast directly at the site!

Enjoy and stay tuned for regular broadcasts!

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

While trolling the web, I came across the following information which will be of interest for Gordon Ramsay Fans in Canada, as well as those diehard fans that like to travel or have lots of frequent flyer miles! The tour appears to be promoting Gordon Ramsay’s new(??) book Healthy Appetite – recipes from thr F-word.

I know in the rest of the world, we have Gordon Ramsay Cooking for Friends as the latest book – but anyway.

I just checked the Canadian foodtv website and they do indeed show the F-word, here is the schedule;

Tuesday, January 20 9:00 PM EST F WORD, THE II – 012
Wednesday, January 21 1:00 AM EST F WORD, THE II – 012
Saturday, January 24 11:00 PM EST F WORD, THE II – 012
Sunday, January 25 3:00 AM EST F WORD, THE II – 012
Tuesday, January 27 9:00 PM EST F WORD, THE II – 013
Wednesday, January 28 1:00 AM EST F WORD, THE II – 013
Saturday, January 31 11:00 PM EST F WORD, THE II – 013
Sunday, February 1 3:00 AM EST F WORD, THE II – 013

And here is where to see Gordon Ramsay in the flesh;

Sunday, February 8th, 7:30 pm Toronto Reference Library.
Brought to you by Cookbook Store at Metro Toronto Reference Library
There will be an interview plus question and answer.
Books will be pre-signed by Chef Ramsay time!

The Cookbook Store, 416.920.2665.
$40 ($35 – student ticket price with ID) which comes with a copy of Healthy Appetite.

Monday, February 9th – 12:30 pm to 2:00pm Indigo Eaton Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy Appetite book signing.

We’ll bring you more as soon as we get it!

David Driscoll
Chief Plonker at The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com