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I found it strange that Gordon Ramsay spoke to The News of The World (since they spend most of their time trashing him) and also that they said Gordon was the father of three in the intro and then listed the names of his four kids halfway through!

Highlight of the interview were the insight into Gordon Ramsay’s new cookbook from the latest season of the F Word, called Gordon Ramsay’s World Kitchen. Gordon said that the series and the book was all about “was getting really good ethnic food, fantastic Indian recipes, Chinese and Thai recipes, fantastic French food and putting these ideas together… Fantastic curries, fantastic Pad Thai, great Chinese food, simple French cooking and then the modern British aspect.”

You can also find out what is behind the Red Horns that wife Tana gave him for his birthday!

Also get Gordon’s thoughts on his kids learning to cook, his success overseas and his new series Masterchef – get the full interview here;

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/scottish/scottish_listings/scottish_music/658986/Telly-chef-reveals-all-about-his-new-cookbook-and-life-in-the-kitchen.html

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It seems that the News of the World has a hard-on for Gordon Ramsay – and at every opportunity the are trying to F#$k him with it.

The latest shameless attempt was to cherry pick quotes from restaurant owners featured on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares to make it look like Gordon Ramsay himself was the failure! Even some chefs that have had mostly good things to say about Gordon Ramsay and the show were only credited with negative comments – including Alan Love of what became Love’s Fish Restaurant and Momma Cherri of Soul Food Shack fame.

The one-eyed article can be found at http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/240947/Two-thirds-of-the-restaurants-saved-by-TVrsquos-Ramsayrsquos-Kitchen-Nightmares-amp-chef-Gordon-Ramsay-shut-or-sold.html

Luckily the public at large have disagreed with the article and rightly pointed out many of the flaws in the story – as shown by the comments associated with the original article.

Some of the biggest losers that appeared on the show were Gordon’s friend Francesco from the Walnut Tree Inn and that knob from the Granary (who is suspected of burning down his own restaurant). These clowns were never going to succeed with their attitudes and were looking for a scapegoat from day one. Other just had poor businesses and couldn’t follow instructions as evidenced in the revisits.

I’m still amazed by the number of restaurant owners who bagged Gordon Ramsay for upsetting their existing customer base – didn’t they called him in because they were going broke?? Scott from The Priory (the big church restaurant) was a prime example – as are most of the US episodes!

While some of the criticsms of editing may be warranted (especially in the US version) other problems within the business are highlighted upon Gordon’s return (hey, they let him back, they couldn’t have hated him too much!). There is another problem with the US version of Kitchen Nightmares(besides being vastly inferior and focussing on makeover and conflicts) – namely that the episodes aired so long after the shooting (inlcuding one episode we didn’t see in the most recent series), they couldn’t benefit from the publicity (which is no doubt part of the lure of applying).

Hey, Gordon Ramsay isn’t perfect and maybe some of his ideas across all of these restaurants may not have been winners, but for someone with no vested interest in their success, he certainly appeared to be the most passionate person on almost every episode!

News Of The World have once again demonstrated what piss-poor and shockingly biased reporting can look like – I’m sure they’ll never learn as long as people keep buying their special version of crap!

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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.

Come back tomorrow for all of the Gordon Ramsay news!

David Driscoll
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It is a massive day for news about Gordon Ramsay mostly centred around the earth-shattering news that Gordon Ramsay may have exaggerated his football exploits – amazing front page news that must be for some trash mags! Anyway here is the Gordon Ramsay news for March 2 – 2009

Let’s get The Gordon Ramsay Football News Out of the Way

Gordon Ramsay admits claims about his Rangers career may be inaccurate – Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
The chef Gordon Ramsay has been forced to admit that boasts he has made about his footballing past playing for Glasgow Rangers may be “inaccurate”.

Ramsay football statement – TeleText – Scotland,UK
Gordon Ramsay has said any inaccuracies in accounts of his football career are due to the passing of time. The chef spoke out following reports he lied …
A statement from Gordon Ramsay Holdings said: “Any inaccuracies regarding the details of this period can be explained by the fact that all this occurred nearly 25 years ago.” Rangers Football Club said they had no comment.

Gordon Ramsay tells porky pies – Melbourne Herald Sun – Australia
CELEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay has been caught out lying again – this time to fight his way to the top of the food chain. The foul-mouthed chef has been …
CELEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay has been caught out lying again – this time to fight his way to the top of the food chain.
The foul-mouthed chef has been exposed lying about his much publicised soccer career with top European club Glasgow Rangers.

Gordon Ramsay’s Rangers claims questioned – Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Knox told the News of the World: “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 …
Ramsay, 42, has said on a number of occasions that he was a member of the first team squad at the Ibrox club playing three games, before injury cut short his career.
But his claims have been dismissed as “complete and utter nonsense” by Rangers historian Robert McElroy.

Ramsay admits inaccuracies – TeleText – Scotland,UK
Gordon Ramsay spoke out following allegations that he lied about signing for Rangers football club and playing in its first team. …

British newspaper attacks chef Gordon Ramsay
– Gold Coast News – goldcoast.com.au – Molendinar,Queensland,Australia
THE reputation of foul-mouthed Gold Coast-bound chef Gordon Ramsay has taken another hit, with revealations he lied about his professional soccer-playing past.
Ramsay has always insisted injury ruined his professional career with noted Scottish club Glasgow Rangers.

How Gordon Ramsay told porky pies about his past to raise his … – Daily Mail – UK
Gordon Ramsay lied about his past as a professional footballer to drum up publicity for his restaurants, it has been claimed.
The foul-mouthed chef has been accused of cooking up a series of lies about the brief period he spent training with Glasgow Rangers.
Rangers officials demolished his boasts that he played professional football matches during three years at the club.

Did Ramsay fib about his football? – Blatherskite – London,UK
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has made much of his cruelly-interrupted football career, claiming to have played a couple of times for Rangers’ first team before injury ended his career.
But the News of the World, which ‘exposed’ Ramsay’s affair with serial mistress Sarah Symonds, now claims he did no such thing, appearing just once in an unofficial testimonial game as an anonymous trialist.

UK chef Ramsay never played top-grade soccer – Thaindian.com – Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand

Chef Gordon Ramsay has always relished boasting about his glory days as a budding soccer star with Glasgow Rangers, but a News of the World report reveals that he never signed up for the team and never played first team games for them, despite saying so on radio, in his autobiography and in a series of interviews. In fact, he was such a liar, fellow cooks nicknamed him Billy Bull***t. He even secretly confessed to top chef Marco Pierre White that his Rangers career was boloney, adding: But it just came out of my mouth and it was a good story at the time.

Ramsay ‘lied about pro-soccer career’ – Ninemsn – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has repeatedly spoken about being signed to top soccer team Glasgow Rangers — but a new report says he made it up.
The News of the World newspaper alleges that Ramsay lied about being signed to the Rangers and playing for their first team.
In truth, the newspaper said, the celebrity chef trialled briefly with the club, playing one testimonial game but never securing a permanent contract.
Ramsay also blamed legendary Rangers

More News About Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Maze in South Africa

Avant-garde and Kitchens – The Times – Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

Sol Kerzner’s new Cape Town joint will feature a Nobu and a Gordon Ramsay Maze. I have mixed feeling about this. If we are to import high-end dining brands, …

Two Michelin Stars in Less Than One Year For Gordon Ramsay Restaurant in France

Michelin honours Ramsay – Straits Times – Singapore

PARIS – THE Michelin restaurant guide marked its 100th edition on Monday with honours for one of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s favourite hotels and for British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s first French adventure.

Three Michelin stars for Sarkozy’s favourite chef is a fix, says … – Independent – London,England,UK

The British chef, Gordon Ramsay, will jump straight to two stars for his new restaurant in Versailles but there will be – somewhat unusually – only one new, three-star chef in the 100th version of the Big Red Book.
Both Fréchon and Ramsay’s promotions by Michelin are controversial in France.
Simon has also repeated his earlier criticism of Ramsay’s restaurant at the Hotel Trianon Palace in Versailles, which opened almost a year ago. He says that any real food lover should object to the award of two stars to the “stereotyped” and “déjà vu” cuisine of the Trianon Palace. The quality of Ramsay’s food, he says, is “not bad at all” but nothing original.

Gordon Ramsay Hasn’t paid some bills – WOW – More Dirt Digging

Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant empire being chased over unpaid bills – Sunday People – UK

TV Gordon pays £315K rent at last, but still owes his suppliers £109K Take one angry chef, add a soupcon of furious suppliers & one large credit crunch, but..
Telly chef Gordon Ramsay is facing his own kitchen nightmare – as his restaurant empire is chased for thousands of pounds in unpaid bills.
Angry food suppliers, property landlords and the taxman are all breathing down Gordon’s neck as his upmarket eateries struggle to cope with the recession.

A Gordon Ramsay Football Story with a Difference – Satire

Gordon Ramsey A Closet Celtic Fan – The Spoof (satire) – UK
Gordon Ramsey, celebrity chef, serial philanderer, foul mouthed hooligan and Scotsman has been revealed as a secret Celtic supporter. …

A Gordon Ramsay Hotel Review

Out of the frying pan – WA today – Perth,WA,Australia
Gordon Ramsay’s first hotel is big on thread count as well as food, writes Saska Graville. Gordon Ramsay is good in bed. I say this with some authority, not because I’ve been reading the recent revelations in the tabloid press but because I’m testing the mattress in one of the rooms of his first hotel venture, the York & Albany in London’s Camden.

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

A New month and a new round of Gordon Ramsay news stories.

Only a brief mention of Gordon Ramsay, but an interesting article

What’s Masterchef got to do with food? – guardian.co.uk – UK

Now, while it’s somewhat satisfying to see one of the legions of highly paid and highly visible TV chefs take what Gordon Ramsay would call a kick to the …
But then, it’s becoming clear that there’s an inverse relationship between the broadcasting of cookery programmes and the nation’s ability to cook.

Some Success for a former Gordon Ramsay Protégé

Tickling the tastebuds with Gordon Ramsay chef – Hucknall Today – Hucknall,UK
With the help of former Gordon Ramsay chef James Crossman, food from different countries has been put on the school menu. …
James, who worked with Gordon Ramsay at his restaurant in Claridge’s Hotel, London hails from Nottingham and is now head chef at the Season restaurant in Beeston.

Another Chance to Win Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay DVD competition – Gloucestershire Echo – Cheltenham,England,UK
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has gone down a storm in the US with the American version of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. His new DVD Ramsay’s Kitchen …

More Great Press for Verre by Gordon Ramsay

Verre By Gordon Ramsay’s Second Serving At ’Taste Of Dubai’ 2009 – Dubai City Guide – Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Verre By Gordon Ramsay at the Hilton Dubai Creek, today announced their return to the Taste of Dubai festival for 2009, following last year’s successful participation in the award winning inaugural event.
Building on last year’s success, Verre promises to encore their magic once again with a new menu of Ramsay inspired, signature dishes.

Here’s the start of the Gordon Ramsay Media Bashing Again! – Starting with the source of all of the lame controversy

MOUTHY CHEF LIED ABOUT RANGERS CAREER – News of the World – London,England,UK
By Carole Aye Maung and Nicola Stow, 01/03/2009 CHEATING chef Gordon Ramsay always relishes boasting about his glory days as a budding Rangers star. …

Ramsay ‘lied about pro-soccer career’ – Ninemsn – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
By ninemsn staff Gordon Ramsay has been accused of lying about his illustrious career as a soccer player. (AAP) Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has repeatedly …

Expect more of this story for days (and hopefully not weeks!)

David Driscoll
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