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THE recession clobbered Gordon Ramsay so badly last year that he was forced to pump £5.7million of his own money into his business empire.

After a stressful time the fiery chef spent a month in India for a new cookery series - and found it the perfect antidote to a "really s**tty year".

During 35 days travelling the country, Gordon spent time in the area of Mumbai where Slumdog Millionaire was filmed.

He says the experience reminded him of his own impoverished childhood in a series of council estates around the UK - and made him forget his troubles.

In the second part of our exclusive interview, Gordon, 43, says: "There's an amazing spirit that reminded me of my childhood. They use broken bits of cars to play cricket in the streets and you see makeshift gyms made of oil drums.

"But everyone's so happy. Nobody was looking for sympathy and they were excited about their next meal. It took me back to long summers and getting excited about going home for gammon, fried eggs and chips. You left nothing on your plate.

"I turn down so many invitations for golf tournaments and Ascot races because it makes me feel sick. There's so much waste and pompousness surrounding it."

The Sun

by Emma Cox

18 January 2010

ANY LOVING husband would want their wife to do well in a competition.

But Gordon Ramsay has a particular reason for wanting Tana to win Dancing On Ice - she has promised him another BABY if she scoops the prize.

The fiery chef now has everything crossed for Tana to go all the way on the skating show after she said she'll try for a brother or sister to join their children Megan, 11, Jack and Holly, nine, and Tilly, seven.

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Gordon, 43, says: "She's promised that if she wins, we can have a baby. I've always wanted five babies and so has she.

"I want a chef for every one of the five sections in the kitchen - one on hot starters, one on cold starters. And they can be a ready made five-a-side football team for weekends as well."

The Times

by Lucy Cavendish

16 January 2010

‘I just had to get away. I’d really had enough,’ says the celebrity chef.

On the driveway of Gordon Ramsay’s huge house near Wandsworth Common, South London, are five cars. All have personalised numberplates and are clean, new and expensive looking. There is a 4x4 and a slinky sports car and ... well, let’s just say that although Ramsay has taken a mighty bashing, personally and financially, in the past year, it hasn’t reached as far as his cars or home.

“Yeah, but it’s been a kick up the arse,” he says almost as soon as we have settled in his vast kitchen. “It’s been a shit 12 months. I got to where I am by busting my arse and then, suddenly, it all turned around and bit me on the arse. But, you know, I wasn’t the only one. No one saw the recession coming and I got caught up in it all.”

Radio Times.com

by Paul Jones

27 October 2009

Gordon Ramsay has told how he underwent a painful beauty treatment to have the deep grooves on his chin filled in, on the advice of Simon Cowell.

The tough-talking F Word host, known for his craggy looks, told the Radio Times how he acted on the suggestion after making it big in the US.

He told the magazine: 'My mother said they were smile lines. I could deal with that at 21, but not at 42.

'Simon Cowell suggested that now I'm a success in America, I should do something, so I had a filler put under the deep crevices. It hurt.'

The procedure to inject a filler to plump out the creases can cost up to £400 a time.

Experts say he will need at least two or three sessions a year to keep his smooth new look.

Ramsay's admission came after his spokesperson denied claims in May 2008 that he had undergone a procedure.

When asked for comment, Gordon's spokesperson said at the time: 'Gordon would be the first person to mercilessly take the p*** out of anyone that has had surgery.'

In the interview, he discussed his 'year from hell' which saw the supercook accused of cheating on his wife Tana, his business hitting rocky times and the sexism row he was at the centre of in Australia.

He also praised his 'brilliant' wife, revealing how the media storm following rumours that he had had an affair made the couple 'incredibly closer with the support of friends like David and Victoria [Beckham] and our families'.

Ramsay is seen in the article being made up like a Terminator cyborg. He told Radio Times: 'It was a year from hell... but when I take a beating I come back twice as strong.'

Speaking about how his wife has faced criticism after signing up for ITV's Dancing On Ice, he said: 'Already jibes have started - she's called "Clingon", "Gordon's little limpet".

BBC Breakfast

by Bill Turnbull

17 September 2009

Gordon Ramsay manged to stop short of an F-word row with a BBC Breakfast presenter today after he was questioned on air about his cooking.

During a piece about his contribution of a range of sauces to Comic Relief, the chef began to steam up when asked if he actually produced anything in the kitchen himself.

Host Bill Turnbull wondered if it was still possible to get a meal cooked personally by him in one of his restaurants, to which Ramsay shot back: 'Of course I still cook.'

Ramsay said the presenter should 'get a life'. 'You sound sad. I am 42 years of age. I have been at the stove for 21 years, I want a life outside my kitchen, sorry. Would you like me to polish you shoes Bill, come on, get a life.'

The Michelin-starred chef, whose restaurant chain includes Claridge's, Maze and Petrus in London, grew unhappy as Turnbull veered off the subject of charity and onto the subject of his restaurants - and his recent financial difficulties.

But the final straw came when Turnbull probed: 'But ARE you cooking anywhere?'.

'Yeah of course I cook,' Ramsay replied. 'I wouldn't maintain that standard.'

He went on to argue that customers would not expect couture clothes designers to stitch every garment .

He said: 'When you go and spend £500 on an Armani suit and you are happy with it, you don't ask the lady at the desk whether it was Georgio himself who stitched it.

'I know the confidence I have in my team, in fact we have been together for over 10 years - how can you propel talent if you don't expose them?'

Kevin Cahill of Comic Relief, who was sat next to Ramsay on the sofa, jokingly patted the chef's back to calm him.

But Turnbull continued to push the question. 'But simply put I can't get a Gordon Ramsay meal anywhere...' he said.

Ramsay, however, managed to keep it light-hearted and even got the last word in, sniping, 'after your two-hour stint [of presenting], come to my kitchen and I'll show you what a proper day's work is all about'.

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Fox News

12 August 2009

TV chef Gordon Ramsay has spoken for the first time about being hit hard by the credit crunch.

The host of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares said business at his restaurants plunged so sharply he was advised to file for bankruptcy as profits fell from £3million to just under £400,000.

But he and his father-in-law pumped in £5million of their own money to keep the business afloat.Speaking on U.S TV Ramsay said he had been hit hard by the global recession as diners stayed away from his chain of over 20 restaurants.

'Heading out of global economic downturn has been tough but for me it has also been a breath of fresh air,' he said on Fox News.'The industry was getting far too arrogant, they weren't respecting customers enough and they forgot the customers were king.

'Customers just disappeared Those that were in the restaurants weren't drinking wine. All were on tap water.

'Then we had a huge downturn, Monday to Thursday. Your staff costs are the same, your running costs are the same. It was a nightmare.'

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Daily Mail

by Jenny Johnston

4 July 2009

Love cheat, liar, sexist bully - Gordon Ramsay's been getting a lot of stick. In this barnstorming confession, he takes the criticism right on his newly-Botoxed chin.

Gordon Ramsay has had his face rearranged. His wife, Tana, is standing beside him in their kitchen, her arm in a sling. Blimey. Is there a connection?

Sadly not. It transpires Tana's broken arm was the result of over-zealous rollerblading with the kids, rather than a well-aimed blow to her husband's chin.

Quite what has happened to his face, though, remains a mystery until the end of our interview. It puzzles me throughout. Ramsay's face has always been the most expressive part of him. And given that this interview involves him talking about supposedly the worst six months of his life – 'It's been a rollercoaster, a nightmare, a s***storm, and every other f****** thing you want to call it,' is his own inimitable summing up – his face really should look lived-in.

Channel NIne

by Tracy Grimshaw

4 June 2009

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June 5, 2009: The chef from hell is back, and more firey than ever – Tracy goes head-to-head with superchef Gordon Ramsay.We talk exclusively to the father and daughter of the victim, Christina Watson

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Sunday Times

by John Arlidge

31 May 2009

Gordon Ramsay has revealed how close his restaurant empire came to going under.

GORDON RAMSAY, the foul-mouthed television chef, has publicly admitted for the first time that his restaurant empire came close to collapse earlier this year.

His accountants drew up plans to put the business into administration and at one point Ramsay owed the tax-man more than £7m.

“It was the worst bollocking ever . . . They told me I was f*****,” Ramsay said in his first interview since his business was plunged into chaos and his family-man image was tarnished by claims that he had had a seven-year affair.

News of the World

by Carole Aye Maung

1 March 2009

CHEATING chef Gordon Ramsay always relishes boasting about his glory days as a budding soccer star with Glasgow Rangers.

But today the News of the World can reveal it’s a load of codswallop created to fuel his ruthless bid for stardom.

For Ramsay NEVER “signed” for the Glasgow giants 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” —and 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”.

Today that story is booted into touch for good.

*Clearly, this is not an interview with the vainglorious chef, but a series of interviews with other people revealing the truth about his porky pies...

Daily Mail

by Jenny Johnston

22 November 2008

Tuck into this puff-pastry interview hilariously served up by Big Boy Ramsay about the joys of life with his wife.... published just a day before he gave his mistress a good room servicing at the Mariott hotel.

It's not only rivals who feel the wrath of Gordon Ramsay. He is happy to give his children a kick up the backside, too.

Mr Pot meet Mr Kettle. Gordon Ramsay is asking - and not entirely flippantly - if Jamie Oliver really needs to swear so much. 'You have to ask if there's a reason to swear,' he says, in a timely, if surreal, contribution to the broadcasting standards debate.

'Maybe if you are delivering babies and it's going t**s up and the umbilical cord is wrapped around their ankle, of course you might need to swear. But not teaching someone to make a f****** Cornish pasty, no.'

Er, Gordon... 'Yes, I know, I know, I know. Who am I to say that? I'm the last person to tell him that. But Jamie really should know better, because he is the domestic darling of the blue rinse brigade. He is the nation's treasure.'

The Times

22 November 2008

Ok, so this is not an interview as such, but this is a revealing, happy families article, that our "mate" Gordon Ramsay did for The Times which ran the day before the News of the World revealed that he is partial to an extra portion of slapper on the side.

Wanting to add a little dolce vita to his celebrations this year, Gordon Ramsay teams up with fellow chef Angela Hartnett to produce a menu that would make her mamma proud.

If there’s a nation that knows how to enjoy good food better than the Italians, I’ve yet to meet them. Nowhere else have they made the family meal such an art form.

You’ll find whole generations – from the grandmother in her black shawl to the babies being passed from lap to lap – sitting around the same table chatting and eating, and eating and chatting, the noise of their conversation increasing with every course. It’s a really enjoyable way of living – and equally rewarding for the cook, too.

I guess the closest we come to that kind of conviviality is at Christmas, which is the one time most of us still sit down to eat as an extended family. So, this year, I’ve turned to Angela Hartnett, head chef of Murano and York & Albany, for a bit of Italian inspiration. Her mother’s side of the family is Italian through and through, and that has shaped her style of cooking. ...

Daily Telegraph

22 November 2008

Chef Gordon Ramsay enjoys sporting pursuits with his young family - in between stints in the kitchens at Claridge's.

This delightful, happy family article was skillfully placed by Big Boy's publicist, Lord Farrow of Black Amex, on the day before the News of the World revealed that Ramsay likes to slip through the Maze of family life for a bit on the side.