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Chef Gordon Ramsay is in hot water again thanks to his foul mouth.
On Saturday, the "Hell's Kitchen" host compared an Australian TV newscaster to a pig and allegedly insinuated she was a lesbian, according to reports. Ramsay made the comments during a cooking demonstration at the Melbourne Good Food and Wine Show, one day after an interview with the journalist, Tracy Grimshaw.
The Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun reported that Ramsay showed the crowd of 3,000 a photograph of a naked woman with "the features of a pig" and compared her to Grimshaw.
YouTube video of the incident shows Ramsay telling the crowd: "Look who I sat next to on the plane at Qantas," as the image of the naked pig woman and a photo of Miss Piggy are shown. "There she is, oh Jesus, I'm not going to tell you her name but it begins with T." He then says, "It's a joke."
But the ensuing firestorm prompted Grimshaw to defend herself Monday. "He says it was a joke. Well not to me or to anyone who cares about me," she said in a televised response. "Truly I wonder how many people would laugh if they were effectively described as 'an old ugly pig.' How is that funny exactly? And worse, it's not even witty."
See her response after the jump.
Ramsay was in Australia for the food festival, held in Melbourne and Sydney. His comments came before he was to demonstrate how to make smoked Tasmanian salmon and a minestrone with cod.
During his TV interview with Grimshaw -- which started with him asking her "What turns you on?" and ended with an insult to a mole on her face -- Ramsay admitted to being "fodder" for the media. "You get caught in the realms of this sort of celebrity sort of dogfight, so you just take the blows."
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Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay shakes hands with Nelson Mandela during a lunch to Benefit the Mandela Children's Foundation as part of the celebrations of the opening of the new One&Only Cape Town resort on April 3, 2009, in Cape Town, South Africa. Ramsay will be launching his first restaurant in Africa at the resort, Maze and Robert De Niro will be opening Nobu. The 130-room property is One&Only's first urban resort and sits in the fashionable Waterfront district.
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Chef Gordon Ramsey and his wife Tana Ramsey arrive at the GQ Men of the Year Awards at the Royal Opera House on Sept. 2, 2008 in London.
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Chef Gordon Ramsay and family attends the premiere of the 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' at Empire Leicester Square on Oct. 7, 2008 in London.
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A picture taken on March 20, 2008 shows British TV chef Gordon Ramsay, chef at Gordon Ramsay au Trianon, his restaurant outside Paris in Versailles, which was awarded with two stars on March 2, 2009 by French Michelin restaurant guide in its 100th edition. The 41-year-old chef already heads 10 restaurants and pubs in United Kingdom and another 10 in the United States.
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Gordon Ramsay promotes his new book 'Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite' at Borders Columbus Circle on Feb. 10, 2009, in New York City.
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Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay prepares the food for the opening party in his Maze restaurant at the new One&Only Cape Town resort on April 2, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Gordon Ramsay holds Christmas Theatre at 'Taste of Christmas' at ExCeL on Dec. 4, 2008 in London.
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Chef Gordon Ramsay and his wife, Tana Ramsay, arrive at the Grand Opening of the new One&Only Cape Town resort on April 2, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Grimshaw said she had to respond to Ramsay's food fest comments because "I'm not going to sit meekly and let some arrogant narcissist bully me."
"Gordon Ramsay made me promise not to ask on Friday about his private life. He then got on stage on Saturday and made some very clear and uninformed insinuations about mine," Grimshaw said. "Obviously, Gordon thinks that any woman who doesn't find him attractive must be gay; for the record, I don't and I'm not. But I'm not surprised by any of this ... we're all just fodder to him."
[Via Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun]
| Take off your jacket and leave 'Hell's Kitchen' | |
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6-08-2009 @4:29PM lora said... WELL I LIKE HELLS KITCHEN ALL I CAN SAY DONT WATCH IT IF YOU DONT LIKE IT . GORDON RAMSEY IS ONE GREAT CHEF AND I WAIT FOR HIS SHOW ALL THE TIME TO COME ON. ALL I CAN SAY TURN THE CHANNEL IF YOU DONT LIKE IT WATCH SOMETHING ELSE NOBODY MADE YOU OR ANYONE ELSE WATCH IT !!! THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE TO WATCH SO ALL OF YOU THAT DONT LIKE IT TURN THE CHANNEL. I WISH RAMSEY HAD MORE SHOWS LIKE HELLS KITCHEN TO WATCH AND NIGHTMARE KITCHENS TOO
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6-08-2009 @4:25PM viro said... Gordon Ramsay's comments are indicative of a bitter bitchy troubled old weathered unprofessional bleached gasbag and pottymouth. His 5 yr old tantrums are boring, tasteless, and show what a brat he really is. The only person that gives a porcine's ass about him or Hell's Kitchen is his wife. She has to take his crap for the end of the rainbow payoff. The rest of us just find him to be an ignorant, wrinkled, bleached old blabbering bore. KUDOS to the reporter who put his big nasty ass in its place.I'm surprised someone on the show or elsewhere hasn't punched him right in his wrinkly old leathery windbag.
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6-08-2009 @4:25PM Brian Donaldson said... The guy is an illiterate moron who just got lucky.
The chefs on the Food TV network, such as Emeril Lagasse are of a much higher quality than this English moron.
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6-08-2009 @4:26PM aphinnious said... Gordon Rules, and t.v. isn't the same without him featured on it. Hurry-up somebody produce a new show for him to be in. He's a dynamo that's being wasted by the network's inaction/lack of production/laziness. He's better than Trump, as he's simply more likeable.
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6-08-2009 @4:26PM the pig said... He looks a twat in that jacket.Nice jacket but leave it to the younger lads!
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6-08-2009 @4:29PM chef boy rd said... He's Scottish Brian!
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6-08-2009 @4:33PM Don said... I not only like Gordon Ramsey, I find him much like Simon Cowell. If you really want the truth, that's the guy you ask. Not knowing Ms. Grimshaw, I cannot be certain, but I would say if it merited Gordon's attention, I'd likely believe his opinion. He did say it was a joke. I'm sick of these people doing hatchet jobs on people in the name of truth. It's amazing how sensitive they get when it's their turn on the block.
Ms.Grimshaw, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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6-08-2009 @4:38PM Polly said... I've seen Gordon many times, and at first, found him interesting, but now think he is too foul-mouthed. And after hearing of this latest dust-up with the reporter, find him disrespectful of her, full of himself and just plain nasty all around. He should get off TV and get another life--if someone doesn't kill him first.
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6-08-2009 @4:35PM Dean said... Hells Kitchen is all scripted and all this is just for publicity. Works pretty good doesn`t it.
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6-08-2009 @4:48PM Steve said... This Fellow seems to be grabbing his last 15 minutes of fame and does not care how it comes.
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6-09-2009 @11:34AM Don said... Scott said... Any British Chef is the very definition of an Oxy-Moron.. Gordon *WHO*?!? He can't make it England, so he tries HERE, where ANYONE can be a 'Star'!!!!
Scott, It's obvious to me that you are a piece of worthless organic matter occupying what would otherwise be valuable space and time. Gordon did "make
it" in the UK and hugely so. He "made it" in NYC, too. He's succeeded just about anywhere he's gone.
Next time you want to make an "Imbecile deposit", do us all a favor. Lie down until the feeling passes. Geeez, talk about a moron.
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6-12-2009 @4:18PM Kay said... Gordon is impotent and has demons coming out everywhere or he wouldn't say the crap he says. He obviously can't stand on his own as a great chef or he wouldn't lower himself to his rants and bullying. Someone needs to put their foot in his mouth or the other end and give him what he REALLY needs!
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6-08-2009 @4:57PM Anthony said... Welcome to the world of food service. Anyone shocked or offended by this guys rants and remarks have never worked in a kitchen before. I am 100% positive that when Gordon was a dishwasher in his first restaurant, someone spoke to him in that same exact manner. Now that his head is roughly the size of Great Britain he feels he can do the same to anyone who crosses his path. I don't condone what this guy said but it speaks volumes of where he comes from. If he didn't have this type of personality then he wouldn't be anything. Leave the kitchen talk in the kitchen Chef!
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6-08-2009 @4:57PM g-string said... I just can't wait for the episode where a contestant gets fed up with Ramsey's bull.shit and buries a chop suey knife into his chest. LOL!!!
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6-08-2009 @5:04PM Victoria said... He makes me sick. The article put a quote that he said and "You get caught in the realms of this sort of celebrity sort of dogfight, so you just take the blows." was it. He's so full of himself! He thinks he hot and he thinks that he's an international star (he has to think that especially if he's going to be a jackass in the US, in the English area across the Atlantic, and be an ass in Australia). He's disrespectful and it's disgusting. He needs to get back to reality or someone best show him HIS place. Obviously it isn't the kitchen.
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6-08-2009 @5:01PM Lisa said... I bet Chef Ramsay is laughing....all the way to the bank.
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6-08-2009 @5:02PM mindirella said... He has no brain to mouth filter.
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6-11-2009 @8:27PM Mike said... Gordon's so sly. Look at all this free publicity you guys are enabling for him. Looks like joke's on you. Gordon is stupid??? LOLOLOLOL!!!
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6-08-2009 @5:27PM Susan Gallagher said... Gordon Ramsany is the bomb, Please watch his other show called F word. Gordon is a guy who knows what he wants and he goes and gets it. He has 4 beautiful children and a beautiful wife. His shows are great and also, if you pay attention you can learn how to cook. Susan
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6-08-2009 @5:10PM Gregory said... I cannot stand Ramsey and wont waste one second of my time watching his show...He is a rude PIG who thinks his crap dont stink !! I wonder if he talks to his own family that way ? Hats off to you Grimshaw..You handled it very well.
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