Ubiquitous chef and host of Hell’s Kitchen Gordon Ramsay has more going for him than good looks and a foul mouth.
Though we fancy Gordon’s accent to be the Queen’s English, the hell-on-wheels chef was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
2. He’s got game.
Before Gordon was knocking around chefs in the kitchen, he was bruising opponents on the football (or, as we say, soccer) field as a professional player for the Scottish champions.
Gordon holds a degree in hotel management from North Oxon Technical College.
4. He’s a family man.
Gordon lives in London with his wife, Tana, and their four children: Megan, twins Jack and Holly, and Matilda.
5. He’s not the only hotheaded British chef.
Gordon worked alongside Britain’s infamous bad-boy chef Marco Pierre White, host of NBC’s Chopping Block.
6. He’s pedigreed.
Gordon trained in London’s preeminent restaurant Le Gavroche, and under world-renowned French chef Joël Robuchon.
7. He has plenty to say.
Gordon is the author of 11 cookbooks and two autobiographies, including 2006’s Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection.
8. He’s multiplying.
Gordon is the executive chef and owner of a whopping 19 restaurants. His U.S. eateries include New York City’s Gordon Ramsay at The London, Cielo by Angela Hartnett in Boca Raton, FL, and his latest endeavor, Gordon Ramsay at The London West Hollywood, just a stone’s throw from the Hell’s Kitchen studio in sunny L.A.
9. He’s an award winner.
Gordon’s various restaurants around the globe have accumulated a total of nine Michelin stars. London Zagat named his restaurant Gordon Ramsay the Top Restaurant and Best Fine Dining Restaurant in the U.K. These ratings continued in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.
10. He’s not all bite.
In addition to hosting Fox’s sensationalized Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon hosts BBC America’s The F Word and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, where every so often you can find this culinary hell-raiser eating a little humble pie.
