Still the amazing revelation (In case you can’t tell, I was being sarcastic – H. Simpson) about Gordon Ramsay which has no bearings on his entertainment value nor ability to cook! March 3 Gordon Ramsay News is here!
Same Old Stories about Gordon Ramsay’s (lack of) Football Career
So did Gordon Ramsay ever play for Rangers? – Reuters UK – UK
LONDON (Reuters) – Chef Gordon Ramsay has admitted there may have been “inaccuracies” in accounts of his football-playing past after a weekend newspaper report said he had lied about appearing for Rangers.
The News of the World said Ramsay, 42, never actually signed for the Glasgow club and questioned whether he had ever played in the first team.
The article quoted Ramsay — one of the world’s most famous chefs who runs a string of acclaimed restaurants and appears on reality television cooking shows — as telling a radio show in 2002 that he played three first-team games.
Gordon Ramsay admits claims about his Rangers career may be inaccurate = Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Knox told a Sunday newspaper: “The first time I ever saw Gordon Ramsay was in 1996 when he launched his first book. But he didn’t know me from Adam because we’ve never met.”
The only evidence of Ramsay’s Rangers career is a photo in his book of him in a Rangers squad which also included Rangers legend Ally McCoist.
However Allan Cairns, the photographer who took the picture in September 1985, said the photo was not one of Rangers first team but a side picked to play a testimonial match.
Ramsay explains football career errors – RTE.ie – Ireland
Gordon Ramsay has admitted there may have been inaccuracies in accounts of his football career, but attributed it to the passing of time.
Ramsay spoke out following allegations that he lied about signing for Rangers football club and playing in its first team.
The News of the World newspaper reported that Ramsay misrepresented his career both in his autobiography Humble Pie, in interviews and on BBC Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs in March 2002.
Ramsay ‘fabricated’ soccer career – Adelaidenow – Australia
CELEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay has been accused of lying about playing professional soccer to fight his way to the top of the food chain.
The foul-mouthed chef allegedly fabricated his much publicised soccer career with top European club Glasgow Rangers, with club officials saying it never happened.
Tough love: Rihanna, Brown reunite – Arizona Republic – Phoenix,AZ,USA
A British tab says claims by TV chef and donkey spotter Gordon Ramsay of having been a budding soccer star for the Glasgow Rangers are as rotten as last week’s risotto.
News of the World quotes Rangers historian Robert McElroy as saying Ramsay never had a contract with the team.
The tab also says Ramsay once told chef Marco Pierre White that his Rangers career was nonsense.
Will Tana Ramsay and The Kids being Joining Gordon Ramsay in the USA?
Stateside calls for Gordon Ramsay and his wife Tana – Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
After having to deny claims he cheated on his wife, and also being caught embellishing his early football career, Gordon Ramsay may be about to forsake this …
Tana, the chef’s long-suffering wife, says she has become rather partial to the United States where she has been filming a cookery programme and catching up with their close friends, David and Victoria Beckham.
She reckons the television programme could be the start of “something special” for the family.
“Our children are settled in the UK but the US has some great schools,” Tana tells Closer. “It would be great to work in America, but we’ll see.”
Gordon Ramsay Can Still Cook Says Michelin in France!!
Gordon Ramsay wins Michelin stars for first restaurant in France – Times Online – UK
Gordon Ramsay weathered the disdain of French critics today, emerging as one of the winners in the 100th edition of the Michelin Red Guide, the bible of gastronomy.
Ramsay, 42, was given two stars for his first French restaurant, Gordon Ramsay au Trianon, at Versailles, which opened a year ago. This makes him the first British chef to be awarded deux macarons on Michelin’s home soil in the 109 years since the guide was first published.
Newspapers Minding Gordon Ramsay’s Business!
Gordon Ramsay Holdings finally ‘files’ 2007 accounts – Quick Bites – London,England,UK
It seems that Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) is finally getting around to filing its 2007 accounts, only a few months late. Correction: it seems that GRH has …
As to the sales figures for 2007 themselves, as reported by Bloomberg, they are a lot less impressive that they were said to be as recently as last October. Just four months ago, Chris Hutcheson – CEO of, and 31% shareholder in, GRH – told the Evening Standard that “turnover grew strongly again in [the year to 31 August] 2007 to reach £46 million”.
This would have represented growth of 20.7% from the £38.1m reported for 2006.
Ramsay’s Restaurants Report Profit Increase in Overdue Accounts – Bloomberg – USA
Gordon Ramsay, the chef known for his gourmet eateries and television tirades, said net income for the year ended Aug. 31, 2007, jumped to 1.37 million pounds ($1.92 million) from 112,103 pounds on gains for Maze and other venues.
Sales advanced 9.2 percent from a year earlier to 41.6 million pounds, Gordon Ramsay Holdings Ltd. said today
Where have you been Award – Little and Big Gordon Ramsay to Team Up
Gordon Ramsay : Gordon Ramsay hires 9-year-old ‘Little Gordon’ for … – Entertainment and Showbiz! – Baroda,India
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has hired a nine-year-old to be a part of his show after being impressed with the lad’s hilarious mimicking of him on cyberspace.
Child-actor Felix Light had done three videos in a “Little Gordon” advertising campaign for restaurant recruiting firm Caterer.com.
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