“Not many people have seen me in my pajamas,” the celebrity chef tells ENTERT ahead of ‘Being Gordon Ramsay’

Gordon Ramsay gives a candid look into his life in a new Netflix series.

Speaking with PEOPLE ahead of the premiere of Being Gordon Ramsay, the celebrity chef and father of six says he wanted to take viewers beyond the “shiny” culinary shows he’s known for, such as MasterChef.

“I wanted to show the other side, the other half of me and I don’t think that’s been done properly,” he says. “And so it wasn’t sanitized and set up where it looked slightly, ‘oh God, this is boring.’ It was real and not many people have seen me in my pajamas.”

“I’m getting up to speed with how feisty Tilly is,” he says, referring to his 24-year-old daughter. “And then there’s sort of real life drama that’s unfolding with the pressure of those two young boys and putting this mammoth business in the sky together.”

Gordon and his wife Tana welcomed their eldest daughter, Megan Ramsay, in 1998; fraternal twins Holly Anna Ramsay and Jack Scott Ramsay in 1999; Matilda Ramsay (Tilly) in 2001; son Oscar James Ramsay in 2019; and son Jesse James Ramsay in 2023.

The six-part documentary, which premieres Feb. 18, also follows Gordon as he launches five culinary experiences at 22 Bishopsgate, one of London’s tallest buildings.

The Kitchen Nightmares star explained why he took on such an ambitious project, even though his wife “wasn’t a big fan” of the idea in the beginning.

“I think you know I love a challenge,” he says, noting that opportunities for openings at landmark addresses “come up once every decade.”

“I thrive on pressure,” he adds. “That’s the excitement with chefs. You have that relentless pursuit of absolute utter perfection with a sort of concoction of challenges, difficult challenges. And I think I couldn’t do a project like this 10 years ago, unless I had the wealth of experience that I’ve just spent the last 20 years crafting.”

The docuseries also shows his adult kids sharing screen time with his little ones, such as scene-stealing Oscar.

“Oscar and Jesse are blessed with the most exciting babysitters they’ve ever had or met in their entire lives,” he says of the older children.

The “very close” family has a ritual of spending Sunday lunch together.

“They absolutely adore that moment,” he says. “The two little ones can’t quite believe all their siblings are there, but they chat across the table from what’s going on in the world to Oscar’s school reports, to his Kumon, to his spelling; he’s counting to 25 now in French. And so yeah, it’s quite an incredible dynamic.”

he episodes also see Tilly following in Gordon’s footsteps and going to culinary school — which makes him a proud dad.

“First of all, I’m appalled of the lack of females [in chef roles] and it’s so frustrating from that sort of boisterous old fart mentality that women shouldn’t be in – they should be running the pastry section,” he says. “It’s absolutely bulls—.”

He explains that he’d always been “nervous” about pushing his kids into something they didn’t want to do.

“Food, restaurants, this industry, you really need to want it and Tilly was banging the door down,” he says.

He also didn’t want the staff at his businesses thinking “Oh, it’s Ramsay’s kids, we can’t really discipline them.”

Tilly made the decision to forge her own path by going to culinary school in Ireland instead of asking her father to train her.

“I have to give her credit for that,” he says. “And finally, one out of six wants to be a chef, which has made my entire f—ing year.”