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[h3]Gordon Ramsay is known as the bete noir of the cooking world, a foul mouthed perfectionist who doesn’t suffer fools gladly - as famously recorded in his treatment of celebrities in the hugely successful TV shows ‘Hell’s Kitchens’ and ‘Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ .[/h3]

As a youngster he took up professional football with Glasgow Rangers in 1981, but unexpectedly hung up his boots after a leg injury. Football’s loss was the culinary world’s gain when Gordon decided on a career in catering enrolling with an HND course in hotel management.

Five years later Gordon joined the famous Maxim’s restaurant in London as Chef de partie, eventually followed by a year at ‘Harvey’s’ Marco Pierre White’s south London restaurant. Still only in his twenties Gordon moved to Le Gavroche to work alongside the eminent Albert Roux.

The master chef in the making soon realised he needed first hand experience of the intricacies of classic French cooking. In 1990 he moved to France where he spent three years in the kitchens of Guy Savoy and Joel Robuchon.

Gordon then took a year off to cook on the yacht of a media tycoon. A year later, he was back in London as chef of the newly opened Aubergine. Within three years of opening he garnered two Michelin stars and several accolades. 1995 saw Gordon win 'Newcomer of the Year' at the prestigious Catey Awards. It was perhaps inevitable that the chef with a reputation for excellence and a volatile temper would soon be setting up his own establishment.

In 1998, following the publication of his first book ‘Passion for Flavour’, he opened Gordon Ramsay in London’s chic Chelsea. He was still only 32.

Gordon’s first taste of TV exposure was on Channel Four’s controversial ‘Boiling Point’, a forbearer of the later reality TV shows ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ which would make him a household name.

A year later Gordon opened Pétrus with his protégé Marcus Wareing as Chef Patron, in London's St. James's Street. This collaboration saw Gordon earning his first Michelin star. The wave of acclaim and success continued and in October 2001, Gordon opened 'Gordon Ramsay' in Claridge's. The restaurant’s reputation for excellence gained a Michelin star in 2003.

1999 saw the publication of Gordon’s second book ‘Passion for Seafood’.
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2000 witnessed a watershed for the now popular and media savvy chef. Gordon not only won Chef of the Year award at the Cateys 2000, but his restaurant was also voted the Top Restaurant in the UK. As if that wasn’t enough, it was also named as the best Fine Dining Restaurant in the 2001 Harden’s Guide. Not bad for a lad who started out on an HND management course.

A third book, ‘Chef for all Seasons’, was shortly followed by ‘Beyond Boiling Point’ a sequel to C4’s original documentary.

In 2001, Gordon won his third Michelin star in the Great Britain & Ireland Red Guide. However, the opening of Amaryllis in Glasgow wasn't such a success and having won a Michelin star, the restaurant eventually closed.

During this time the Gordon Ramsay Scholar Award was launched with the aim to encourage young chefs. That same year Gordon also opened ‘Verre’ in The Dubai

By 2003 Gordon's award-winning food was now being served in another famous London hotel, The Savoy, but it was Ramsay’s hugely successful Reality TV shows that was to bring him into the public spotlight.

In what became ‘water cooler’ television, ‘Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen’ saw the volatile chef give a variety of micro-celebrities a memorable tongue-lashing, notably former Conservative MP Edwina Curry and Coronation Street actress Amanda Barrie, who was actually moved to hit him after provocation. Ramsey branded the celebrity chefs a ‘bunch of whingers’ and complained to the press that most of the stars ‘hadn’t done a day’s work in their lives’

Gordon also enjoyed huge success in America with the television show Hell's Kitchen USA. The American public loved him and in 2006, he took the Ramsay empire to America where he opened Gordon Ramsay at the London in New York.

Gordon lives with his wife Tana and children in South London. He regularly jogs home from work late at night after a long shift in his central London restaurants.

Richard Bevan
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- Gordon was asked to have a make-over on ‘Queer Eye For The Straight Eye’ but declined the offer saying that he was happy with the way that he looked and that he already had a large gay following.

- In an edition of Heat magazine Gordon said of ‘Ready Steady Cook’ presenter Ainsley Harriott “he’s not a serious chef, he’s a comedian”

- The celebrity chef has said that he didn't attend the births of his children because he thought it would put him off sex.

- Ramsay has banned his children from his own restaurant - the exclusive Michelin-starred restaurant at Claridge's in London, because he would rather they ate junk food than posh food. He has said that his four children are not to set foot in the restaurant until they are at least 15. "I want them to know what junk food is about. I want them to know what a pizza is like because I don't want them to grow up as food snobs."
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