Gordon Ramsay is known to many as the chef that broke boundaries when he was featured on the 1998 documentary series, Boiling Point. The documentary showed us not just the inner workings of Ramsay's then fledgling restaurateur career, but also his now famous ability to shout foul mouthed tirades out to his staff when things weren't going his way.
13 years later and the chef has undoubtedly become one of the latest culinary masters to join the celebrity chef club, joining the likes of Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith and his former mentor, Marco Pierre White. Ramsay also made a name for himself after starring as the head chef in the cooking reality show, Hell's Kitchen.
Ramsay's blunt and to-the-point style made him the perfect celebrity chef to present a range of different television shows. Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares allowed him to help a range of failing restaurants around the country, with the objective to help them change their ways and turn a profit in only 7 days. The show was an instant hit and allowed the chef to launch the more traditional cooking show, The F Word.
Gordon Ramsay is also one of the few British chefs to have successfully carved a television career for himself across the Atlantic, through the American versions of Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen. He also recently was made a judge on the American reboot of the cooking competition, MasterChef.
Unfortunately, the chef's popularity has been dented after a number of personal and public controversies were aired in celebrity gossip columns. The chef allegedly fired his father-in-law from the position of CEO of Gordon Ramsay Holdings after news emerged that he had fathered two children with another woman.
Ramsay's latest foray into the wild has seen him starring alongside Scottish star Dougray Scott in the romantic comedy, Love's Kitchen. Unfortunately the move seems to have backfired after a trailer was uploaded to YouTube. The Sun described the movie to be one of the ‘biggest turkeys' they had ever seen. The celebrity news blog Popbitch provides a less than complementary review for the movie as well, saying "things go from bad to worse for Gordon Ramsay… and, how humiliating, they even spelled his name wrong in the credits."
The proof shall be in the pudding when the movie is released later this month, though many believe Ramsay's British television career may be over. The chef need not worry though, as American audiences can't get enough of him. Kitchen Nightmares and MasterChef have both been renewed, and are set to return to American screens later on this year.
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