Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay, OBEis a Scottish-born British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently hold 6. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held 3 Michelin stars since 2001. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef, MasterChef...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth8 November 1966
CityJohnstone, Scotland
I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.
You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.
I'm quite a chauvinistic person.
I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.
If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.
When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.
I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.