Gordon Ramsay is a self-made man who trained with some of the world’s leading chefs, such as Albert Roux and Marco Pierre White in London, and Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon in France before launching his own empire.
He began in 1998, at age 31, with the opening of his namesake restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, which was awarded three Michelin stars. Since then, he’s opened a string of successful restaurants in cities across the globe, including Doha, Qatar; Las Vegas; Atlantic City, N.J.; Singapore; Dubai and several restaurants throughout the U.K.
At the same time, the chef became a TV personality, who today in the U.S. hosts MasterChef, MasterChef Jr., Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, among others. (FOX’s Masterchef Junior returned in 2022 and is now casting for Season 9.)
In March 2022, the notoriously cranky chef did a surprisingly kind deed for a school kitchen manager at Edward Peake Middle School in Biggleswade, England. The school cook called into a radio program featuring Ramsay and asked for his help, saying she was “cooking on her own here” after the school’s two chef were out sick. The celebrity chef sent Rob Roy Cameron, one of his chefs to help out at the school.
And along the way, Ramsay managed to marry and become father to six children with wife Cayetana “Tana” Hutcheson: Megan Jane Ramsay, twins Jack Scott Ramsay and Holly Anna Ramsay, Matilda “Tilly” Ramsay, Oscar Ramsay and brand-new addition Jesse James Ramsay, whose birth Ramsay announced on Nov. 11, 2023.
So far, none of Ramsay’s kids want to follow in his footsteps and become a chef—although daughter Tilly does have TV credits as a presenter on her CV and will be joining her dad as one of the judges on the upcoming ninth season of MasterChef Junior.
Who is Gordon Ramsay’s wife?
Gordon met Cayetana “Tana” Elizabeth Hutcheson in 1992 when he was 26 and she was only 18. They dated for four years before marrying in December 1996. A Montessori-trained schoolteacher, Tana went on to become a bestselling author with six cookbooks geared toward families looking for simple and delicious meals and a TV presenter. She was born on August 23, 1974, in Croydon, Surrey, and she does most of the cooking for the family.
Who are Gordon Ramsay’s kids?
Megan Jane Ramsay
Born May 16, 1998, Megan, 25, is the eldest of Gordon’s children. Despite two celebrity parents, Megan avoids the media whenever possible, but she did allow her father to throw her a birthday party on an episode of Hell’s Kitchen. She studied psychology at Oxford Brooks University, graduating in 2019, and works as a police officer.
Holly Anna Ramsay
Born Jan. 1, 2000, Holly, 23, took a fashion course at Ravensbourne University in London, has worked as a model and is also a mental-health advocate via her podcast 21 & Over, and a documentary producer with more than 300K Instagram followers.
Holly co-hosts 21 & Over with psychotherapist Talitha Fosh, on which she revealed that she had been sexually assaulted twice when she was 18 years old. She hopes to help other young people through their issues with “anxiety, self-doubt, mental health and creating identities in today’s world.”
She also produced Holly Ramsay: The Talk, a documentary short about sexual education.
Holly has no interest in following her father into the kitchen. In fact, Gordon made fun of a TikTok video of Holly’s in which she attempted to make his potato gnocchi recipe.
Jack Scott Ramsay
Born Jan. 1, 2000, Jack and Holly are fraternal twins. Jack, 23, has a love of sports. He played rugby in high school, and also has played water polo and studied Jiu-Jitsu. He attended Dulwich College and then Exeter University. In October 2020 after finishing his degree at Exeter, Jack joined the Royal Marines.
Matilda “Tilly” Ramsay
Born Nov. 8, 2001, Matilda, 22, is the most likely to follow somewhat in her father’s footsteps. Tilly is an influencer who’s best known for presenting the BBC cooking show Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch on CBBC alongside her family, out of which came the cookbook Matilda & The Ramsay Bunch: Tilly’s Kitchen Takeover, and has made guest appearances on several of her father’s TV shows.
This year, Tilly will be joining her dad as one of the judges on the upcoming ninth season of MasterChef Junior, as well as its holiday special.
In 2021, she competed on Strictly Come Dancing, the original British version of Dancing with the Stars. Gordon congratulated her with a post on Instagram which noted she’s one of the youngest dancers ever!
Tilly Ramsay also competed on season 13 of MasterChef Australia, where she surprised fellow competitors by telling them she’s not allowed in her dad’s restaurants.
“I’m not even allowed in my dad’s Michelin-star restaurants so I don’t know what to do,” she said. When pressed, she doubled down, saying; “I’ve been once.”
