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As the (lack of) controversy dies down, maybe we can get back to the normal Gordon Ramsay news – oh no, wait – trashy ‘exposes’ is what is normally dished up!

Hopefully this is the end of the Glasgow Rangers and Gordon Ramsay Story

Gordon Ramsay: He shoots, he scores, he tells whoppers, but don’t … – Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Gordon Ramsay: He shoots, he scores, he tells whoppers, but don’t we all?
As Gordon Ramsay’s football fantasies are exposed, we examine the human tendency to embellish the past
For such a silly, unnecessary lie, Gordon Ramsay’s claim to have played first-team football for Glasgow Rangers, before his career was cut short by an injury, fooled an awful lot of people for an awfully long time.
The claim was not just exaggerated, but patently ridiculous. The Rangers first-team coach who released him, according to the chef, was manager of Dundee at the time. Ramsay seems to have played in one testimonial match, and that was it. But the myth of the tragically injured football star who re-invented himself as a chef grew and grew. It just seemed so plausible. It even explained all those f-words.

Bono blasted for tax dodge – Vancouver Sun – British Columbia, Canada
Loud-mouth celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has had to eat some crow: turns out his claim to have played briefly for Glasgow Rangers, a prominent soccer team, is just plain false.
He has said for years, and wrote in his autobiography, that he played three first-team games with the club, then suffered an injury that made him turn to other work.
Bono flees taxes – Windsor Star – Ontario, Canada
Ramsay’s response: “Any inaccuracies regarding the details of this period,” his public relations guy said, “can be explained by the fact that all this occurred nearly 25 years ago.” Hmm

If Losing it Is Good For You – Gordon Ramsay Must Be a Healthy F$#@ker

Janet Street-Porter: A good tantrum can be better than diplomacy – Independent – London,England,UK
Now we regard a good tantrum as an important part of a good night’s entertainment. Millions tune in to marvel at Gordon Ramsay abusing lousy chefs and second-rate restaurateurs. Kitchen Nightmares USA has replaced boxing as a top combat sport – it’s unmissable. Even better, the hapless Yanks Ramsay abuses pathetically call him Chef Ramsay as they snivel into their sleeves and take the public dressing-down as a life-enhancing experience.
Every episode ends with these pitiful people thanking Ramsay, pictured, for ranting at them about their appalling cooking, their filthy kitchens and their poor interpersonal skills. It’s the modern equivalent of the Papal Inquisition, but instead of thumb-screws we have profanities galore, and instead of heretics, chefs who resort to the microwave and frozen ingredients.

More Wraps for Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares

Do you like to eat? – RantRave | Published Opinion. – Lynnwood,WA,USA
Now, anyone who knows me, knows that one of my passions is culinary arts. So I watch a lot of shows related to that interest. One such show is Gordon Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares.” Why? Because, if you really watch it, and absorb it, you realize that this show is, most the time, about fixing more than just a failing restaurant.

Now, I know how show-biz works, Ramsay is probably the most successful restaurateur on the planet, and deity among chefs, but he’s not a psychologist. Great motivator, but not a psychologist. I’m sure he has a huge stable of advisers for the show, but still…

TV DVD’S – Newsday – Long Island,NY,USA
RAMSAY’S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES: COMPLETE SERIES ONE. Profane chef Gordon Ramsay slaps around struggling restaurateurs in eight episodes of his initial UK series, plus four whatever-happened-to update episodes; $25 for two discs, Acorn.

THE F WORD: SERIES ONE. In Ramsay’s follow-up UK show, he berates staffers at his own cafe (Series Two hits shelves March 17); $30 for 9 episodes on three discs, BFS.

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

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

In an article by the Press Association, there was reports of an offficial statement by Gordon Ramsay Holdings, confirming claims that previous details of his football career may be inaccurate but have explained them by stating that “Any inaccuracies regarding the details of this period can be explained by the fact that all this occurred nearly 25 years ago.”

The report from Channel 4 also reports that the official Gordon Ramsay website has been changed – from “Gordon’s first career break came whilst playing football for Oxford United where he was spotted by a Glasgow Rangers scout in a FA youth club match. Three years later he gave up professional football and returned to college to complete an HND course in Hotel Management.” I now reportedly says that Gordon Ramsay was monitored by Rangers over a three year period but a knee injury put paid to any further hopes of being signed.

Now, hopefully that is the end of it – Yeah right!

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

Gordon Ramsay’s new F-Up and and F#$%king Liar is how the News of the World have reported this story about Gordon Ramsay’s claims about playing fopr the Glasgow Rangers football team as a teenager.

Normally I would doubt anything this trash mag has to say, but instead of naming wanna-be’s who are trying to make a name for themselves or ‘anonymous friends’ they have public sources testifying. Some of these include Marco Pierre White (though they don;t seem to quote him, just account a statement to him), an alleged respected Rangers historian Robert McElroy, Rangers coach Archie Knox, John Hagart at Rangers, a photographer who took the team photo that has appeared in public so many times and an allegedely official Rangers spokesman.

Another comment which Marco Pierre-White supposedly made about Gordon Ramsay and was relayed via his ghost-writer was that “Ramsay was nicknamed ‘Billy Bulls**t’ by those he worked with”

At the end of the day, he may have told a lie that got a little out of hand, but who cares? To me it’s a bit like the Bramley Apple stunt that we saw in Gordon Ramsay’s Boiling Point – a bit of fun, but after a while he may have just painted himself into a corner. Either way, he is still a brilliant cook and a great entertainer – I’m sure the original source has had similar claims levelled at them many, many times more!

I’m linking to the page now, reluctantly – you could probably find a story anywhere – but here is the original source.

F-ing liar!
EXPOSED: How foul mouth chef Ramsay’s served up a load of boloney about his past

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