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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

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Kitchen Nightmares returns in midseason and lands the Friday night at 9 pm timeslot, taking over for the cancelled Dollhouse, which wraps up its run on January 22nd. However, it’s likely a good thing that FOX is choosing to rest Hell’s Kitchen for the time being. I assume they’ll wait to bring the format back until summertime and I hear that they have two cycles of the reality competition cycle already in the can.

Fox is expanding its line of Gordon Ramsay reality shows by giving a series order to Reveille’s “MasterChef.”

Ramsay will co-produce and star in the program, in which nonprofessional cooks compete to create perfect dishes. The project is based on a Shine TV format that’s popular in the U.K. and Australia. The show joins Ramsay’s other titles on Fox — “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Kitchen Nightmares” — and should keep Fox stocked with the temperamental chef’s reality fare nearly year-around. Read more…

In what is no doubt some of the most distressing news that I have heard this year, rumours are circulating the internet that Gordon Ramsay will not be making any more Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

The original quote comes from The Sun newspaper in the UK and according to them Gordon Ramsay said “If the restaurants succeed, there’s no praise. If they’re screwed, we’re blamed and get lawyers’ letters,” he said.

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With a catch cry of “Shak’s too small, House’s too big” – one of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ favourite characters is back with Momma Cherri’s Speakeasy (did anyone actually think that she wouldn’t keep fighting for her dream?? She was one of the only people in the history of Kitchen Nightmares to have Gordon ramsay eat all of her food!!).

Momma Cherri has had her ups and downs, but she is back with her new establishment formerly known as the G-Lounge at 43 Providence Place in Brighton. For those who know the local area it is behind the London Road, next to the old Woolworths’ building and has easy access to Buses, Brighton Mainline Rail Station, A23, A27 as well as secure car parking 100 metres away.

Here’s how Momma Cherri’s website (http://www.mommacherri.co.uk/) describes the new venue; Read more…