The Plonker Club

Gordon Ramsay was due to appear in Perth, Western Australia for two charity events on June 24 and 25, but the promters, Diablo events have recently announced their cancellation.

Their official statement reads as follows “Diablo Events has exercised its rights of termination under the Celebrity Appearance Agreement between Diablo Events, Gordon Ramsay Holdings and Gordon Ramsay. Consequently, Gordon Ramsay will no longer be appearing in Perth for Diablo Events for either the breakfast function on 24 June 2009 or the Black Tie Dinner on 25 June 2009.

We will be in contact regarding refunds in due course and apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

No doubt the Ramsay bashers and trashy media will link this to the ridiculous spectale that was made of Gordon Ramsay’s jokes about Tracey Grimashaw (and not other celebrities who took it better and didn’t have the platform to launch their bitter and mis-informed responses). I’m not sure how these events normally work, but the story in other media related to slow ticket sales – not cancellations.

Possibly it is normal to sell many of the tickets at the last minute and that the bad press removed this option, either way the people of Perth and charities involved are the big losers.

As I type this, Gordon Ramsay is in Queensalnd, helping Sanctuary Cove celebrate their 21st birthday, where he will be joined with his wife Tana. Hopefully we here something positive coming out of this event.

Chief Plonker

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Here is another great Gordon Ramsay interview, where he touches on some of the more recent dramas of the past six months, his experiences on hit television shows Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares and confirmation of Cookalong Live for the US in December of this year. This interview also gives some insight into what Australian and more specifically Melbourne can expect when he launches his internationally renowned ‘Maze’ restaurant early next year (and on the back of the very successful ‘Maze” launch in South Africa). This will be the fifth ‘Maze’ to be launched and their much doubt as to whether this would go ahead after Gordon ramsay’s own confirmation last week in a Times UK interview that his business was close to folding, which forced the very public sell-off of a number of his overseas ventures.

Gordon Ramsay’s first stop on his nationwide tour is Melbourne for this weeks Good Food and Wine Festival and will be appearing multiple times each day for the three day event – where organisers will be charging a premium to see him (every other chef and cooking demonstration is covered in the admission charge!).

It will be interesting to see if Gordon Ramsay is given the same ‘rock star’ treatment by the Australian public that he received when in Australia last year, considering all of the recent controversy that the last six months have brought him.

Here is the interview from today’s Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper, which will no doubt be the first of many interviews with Gordon Ramsay visiting Melbourne, Sanctuary Cove, Perth and Sydney over the next month. Stay tuned for complete coverage of the Gordon Ramsay Tour Down Under!

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

Gordon Ramsay arrives in Melbourne Thursday for the start of his extensive Australian culinary tour. In interviews conducted days prior Gordon Ramsay has confirmed that his ‘Maze’ restaurant, will still be opening at the Crown Casino complex next year and he will be checking on progress while completing his duties at the local Good Food and Wine festival this weekend.

Despite Gordon Ramsay’s admission of tough economic times severely hitting his restaurant empire, Gordon Ramsay Holding, and the forced sell-off of several overseas ventures, it seems that Maze will still be going ahead> It will be following Gordon’s Ramsay’s mantra of featuring local produce including Australian Seafood. In extensive interview with the Herald Sun Newspaper Gordon Ramsay was quoted as saying;

“It’s a tremendously exciting project for me where I’ll be among some of the best and most creative chefs in the world – Tetsuya, Matt Moran, Neil Perry and Shannon Bennett. “And bugger me, I’ll be in Melbourne, the food capital of Australia. What a place to open.”

Gordon Ramsay also stated in the same interview;

“Australia is home to some of the most spectacular produce in the world,” and that “seafood is in abundance, which is refreshing in comparison to some of the problems we’re having in the UK.”

The full interview can be seen at Gordon Ramsay opening new restaurant.

Gordon Ramsay will be appearing at the Melbourne Good Food and Wine Festival on the following dates, after which it is off to host fund-raising events at Sanctuary Cove (rumoured to be followed by a short Queensland holiday) and then Perth.

Friday 5th June
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:45pm – 1:15pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 6:00pm – 6:30pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 8:00pm – 8:30pm

Saturday 6th June
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:00pm – 12:30pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 3:45pm – 4:15pm

Sunday 7th June
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 4:15pm – 4:45pm

Monday 8th June
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 3:00pm – 3:30pm

It is unclear where Gordon Ramsay will be after his final Perth date of June 25, since he will be back in Sydney for their Good Food and Wine show in early June.

Stay tuned to the Plonker Club for all of the latest Gordon Ramsay news and views.

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

That’s right, if you haven’t aklready signed up to be part of the fundraising dinners hosted by masterchef Gordon Ramsay, you can now win an all expenses paid trip.

This unbelieveable experience is brought to you by “Gourmet Traveller” and inlcudes the following;

Flights for 2 to Gold Coast or Brisbane airports
2 nights accomodation atFederation Suite, with full buffet breakfast each morning in The Cove.
Tickets to the gourmet dinner hosted by Gordon Ramsay (three-courses\ of Gordon Ramsay’s dishes)
A goodie bag valued at $150 including a copy of his autobiography, Humble Pie.

Enter at the following site

http://gourmettraveller.com.au/win-a-trip-to-sanctuary-cove-to-see-gordon-ramsay.htm

and worst of luck to all of you, because I want to win this!

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

Gordon Ramsay Invites you to Dinner

From June 12-14 you can dine on the best that Gordon ramsay has to offer and raise money for charity, all in the lap of luxury at Sanctuary Cove on Australia’s Gold Coast!

Further details can be found at http://www.goodfoodshow.com.au/files/details.html

Among the packages being offered is the opportunity of joining Gordon ramsay and a limited number of private cocktails parties.

This is all part of Gordon Ramsay’s tour of Australia for the Good Food shows in June and July in Sydney Melbourne, Queensland and Gordon’s other chairty event in Western Australia