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]
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