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Full Gordon Ramsay Biography
Gordon James Ramsay OBE (born November 8, 1966 in Johnstone, Scotland) is a Scottish celebrity chef and currently one of only three chefs in the UK whose restaurant is rated at three Michelin stars. He has been awarded a total of twelve Michelin stars. He is famous in the UK for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, and improving cooking and restaurants around the country; he is best known in the United States as the host of FOX's Hell's Kitchen, which debuted in May 2005. On September 19, 2007, he debuted in a new FOX series Kitchen Nightmares.
Ramsay was first chosen to play under-14 football at age 11 and was chosen to play for Warwickshire at age 12. His football career was marked by a number of injuries, causing Ramsay to remark, "Perhaps I was doomed when it came to football". In the summer of 1984, Ramsay was being actively scouted by Scottish club, Rangers, the club he supported as a boy, when he seriously injured his knee, smashing the cartilage during training. Ramsay, who is left-footed, continued to train and play on the injured knee, tearing a cruciate ligament during a squash game. He never fully recovered from the double injury and was told by Rangers that he would not be signed, suggesting that he could sign with a club in a lower division. By this time, Ramsay's interest in cooking had already begun, and he chose to take on this new challenge, rather than be known as "the football player with the gammy knee". In September 2005 Ramsay expressed an interest in moving into football again as an owner with the proposed takeover of Greenock Morton football club.
After weighing his options, without enough O levels to join either the Navy or the Police, Ramsay enrolled at a local college, sponsored by the Rotarians to study Hotel Management. He describes his decision to enter catering college as "an accident, a complete accident".
Ramsay was nominated as a candidate for Rector at the University of St Andrews, but beaten at the polls by Simon Pepper. Despite a publicity campaign, Ramsay never visited St Andrews and did not appear in press interviews.
Ramsay is one of only three chefs in the UK to maintain three Michelin Guide stars for his restaurant (the others being Heston Blumenthal and Alain Roux). He was appointed OBE in the 2006 honours list "for services to the hospitality industry".
Ramsay acts as a consultant to numerous catering organisations, and was recruited by Singapore Airlines as one of its "International Culinary Panel" consultants.
In 2004, Ramsay appeared in two British television series. Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares aired on Channel 4, and saw the chef troubleshooting failing restaurants over a two-week period. This series ran its third season in 2006. Hell's Kitchen was a reality show, which aired on ITV1, and saw Ramsay attempt to train ten British celebrities to be chefs, as they ran a restaurant on Brick Lane which opened to the public for the two-week duration of the show.
In May of 2005, the FOX network introduced Ramsay to American audiences in a U.S. version of Hell's Kitchen produced by Granada Entertainment and A. Smith & Co. The show follows a similar premise as the original British series, showcasing Ramsay's perfectionism and infamous short temper. The show proved to be popular enough with audiences in the United States that, in August of 2005, shortly following the Season 1 finale, Hell's Kitchen was picked up for a second season. In August of 2006, FOX announced that Hell's Kitchen had been picked up for a third season which aired in 2007. In addition, Ramsay is also hosting a new US version of Kitchen Nightmares which premiered on FOX September 19, 2007. In addition, FOX announced that they had renewed Hell's Kitchen for a fourth season, for which casting calls are currently underway.
During one episode of The F-Word, Ramsay cooked in Doncaster Prison in Marshgate for its inmates. He challenged prisoner Kieron Tarff to an onion-chopping race, which Ramsay lost. The chef was so impressed by Tarff that he offered him a job at his restaurant when he is released (in 2007).
During Top Gear, he stated that his current cars are a Ferrari F430 and a Range Rover Sport Supercharged, the latter replacing the Bentley Continental GT he owned before realising that Jordan had the same car. He also drives a dark grey Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and a dark grey Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder (both of which featured in episodes of the F Word), as well as a white Audi Q7 (featured on an episode of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares). On May 14, 2006, he appeared on Top Gear in the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car segment. Ramsay currently holds the top spot on Top Gear's celebrity leader board, with a lap time of 1.46.38
Although Ramsay often mocks the French, two of his maître d's, Jean-Baptiste Requien (who works for Ramsay at Gordon Ramsay at The London NYC and Gordon Ramsay's Maze at The London NYC) and Jean-Claude Breton (Royal Hospital Road), are French.
The Gordon Ramsay "Buy a Brick" appeal launched in September 2004 helped the Scottish Spina Bifida Association build a new Family Support Centre and Head Office in Glasgow. In November 2007 Ramsay will host a St Andrew's Day Gala Dinner at Stirling Castle in aid of the Association. |
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