Born 8 November 1966, Gordon James Ramsay Jr. is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur,
and television personality.
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Born in Scotland, Ramsay grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total.
His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held three
Michelin stars since 2001.
First appearing on television in the UK in the late 1990s, by 2004 Ramsay had become
one of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture, and, along with other chefs
like Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, and Delia Smith, he has influenced viewers to become
more culinarily adventurous.
As a reality television personality, Ramsay is known for his fiery temper, strict demeanour,
and use of expletives.
He often makes blunt and controversial comments, including insults and wisecracks about contestants
and their cooking abilities.
He combines activities in the television, film, hospitality, and food industries and
has promoted and hired various chefs who have apprenticed under his wing.
Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as
the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with
the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior,
and Hotel Hell.
In 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $60 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked
him the 21st highest earning celebrity in the world.
Early life Ramsay was born on 8 November 1966 in Johnstone,
Renfrewshire.
From the age of five, he was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Ramsay is the second of four children.
He has an older sister, Diane; a younger brother, Ronnie, who Ramsay revealed had been imprisoned
for heroin possession as a juvenile; and a younger sister, Yvonne.
Ramsay's father, Gordon James Senior (died 1997),[9] was – at various times – a swimming
pool manager, a welder, and a shopkeeper; his sister Yvonne and their mother, Helen
(née Cosgrove), have been nurses.
Ramsay has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant", and his family moved constantly
due to the aspirations and failures of his father, who was an at-times-violent alcoholic.
In 1976, they finally settled in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he grew up in the Bishopton area of
the town.
In his autobiography, Humble Pie, he describes his early life as being marked by abuse and
neglect from this "hard-drinking womaniser".
At the age of 16, Ramsay moved out of the family home and into a flat in Banbury.
Football career Ramsay played football and was first chosen
to play under-14 football at age 12.
He was chosen to play for Warwickshire.
His footballing career was marked by injuries, causing him to remark later in life, "Perhaps
I was doomed when it came to football."
In mid-1984, Ramsay had a trial with Rangers, the club he supported as a boy.
He seriously injured his knee, smashing the cartilage during training.
Ramsay continued to train and play on the injured knee, tearing a cruciate ligament
during a squash game.
Ramsay has claimed to have played two first team games for Rangers.
According to his autobiography Ramsay played "a couple of non-league matches as a trialist"
for Rangers and was signed by the club at the age of 15.
Allan Cairns, the photographer who took the picture in September 1985, said the photo
was not one of Rangers first team but a side picked to play a testimonial match.
A Rangers spokesman said: "Ramsay was a trialist in that testimonial game.
He trained with us for a few months after that but then got injured."
Rangers revisited In series 4, episode 12 of The F Word (originally
aired on 29 July 2008), Ramsay visited Ibrox, the home ground of his favourite childhood
team, Rangers, and exclaimed, "Home, Sweet Home" and said, "My dream came true when I
was spotted in the mid-80s and I joined the youth team here in Ibrox."
He related that one of his fondest memories is playing alongside one of Scotland's football
legends, Ally McCoist, who said about Ramsay, "I remember him well and the one thing that
never ever will change is that he's a competitive so-and-so and wants to do and be the best
that he can."
Ramsay recalled that, "the pain of being released on the back of an injury" was only assuaged
many years later, "after receiving [his] third Michelin Star", and concluded that, "without
the upset at Ibrox, I would not be the chef I am today."
Early cooking career By this time, Ramsay's interest in cooking
had already begun, and rather than be known as the football player with the gammy knee,
at age 19, Ramsay paid more serious attention to his culinary education.
After weighing his options, Ramsay enrolled at North Oxfordshire Technical College, sponsored
by the Rotarians, to study hotel management.
He describes his decision to enter catering college as "an accident, a complete accident."
In the early 1980s, he worked as a commis chef at the Wroxton House Hotel then ran the
kitchen and 60-seat dining room at the Wickham Arms, until his sexual relationship with the
owner's wife made the situation difficult.[20] Ramsay then moved to London, where he worked
in a series of restaurants until being inspired to work for the temperamental Marco Pierre
White at Harveys.
After working at Harveys for two years and ten months, Ramsay, tired of "the rages and
the bullying and violence", decided that the way to further advance his career was to study
French cuisine.
White discouraged Ramsay from taking a job in Paris, instead encouraging him to work
for Albert Roux at Le Gavroche in Mayfair.
(While at Le Gavroche, he met Jean-Claude Breton, now his maître d'hôtel at Royal
Hospital Road.)
After working at Le Gavroche for a year, Albert Roux invited Ramsay to work with him at Hotel
Diva, a ski resort in the French Alps, as his number two.
From there, a 23-year-old Ramsay moved to Paris to work with Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon,
both Michelin-starred chefs.
In Master Chef series 3 episode 18, Gordon Ramsay stated that Guy Savoy was his mentor.
He continued his training in France for three years, before giving in to the physical and
mental stress of the kitchens and taking a year to work as a personal chef on the private
yacht Idlewild, based in Bermuda.[10] The boat also got him to travel to Sicilly and
Sardinia, Italy to learn about Italian cuisine.
Head chef Upon his return to London in 1993, Ramsay
was offered the position of head chef (under chef-patron Pierre Koffmann) at the Three
Michelin starred La Tante Claire in Chelsea.
Shortly thereafter, Marco Pierre White re-entered his life, offering to set him up with a head
chef position and 10% share in the Rossmore, owned by White's business partners.
The restaurant was renamed Aubergine and went on to win its first Michelin star fourteen
months later.
In 1997, Aubergine won its second Michelin star.
Despite the restaurant's success, a dispute with Ramsay's business owners as they wanted
to turn Aubergines into a chain and Ramsay's dream of running his own restaurant led to
his leaving the partnership in July 1998.
In 1998, Ramsay opened his own restaurant in Chelsea, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, with
the help of his father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson, and his former colleagues at Aubergines.[24]
The restaurant gained its third Michelin star in 2001, making Ramsay the first Scot to achieve
that feat.
From his first restaurant, Ramsay's empire has expanded rapidly, next opening Petrus,
then Amaryllis in Glasgow (which he was later forced to close) and later Gordon Ramsay at
Claridge's.
He hired his friend and maître d'hôtel Jean-Philippe Susilovic, who works at Petrus and also appears
on Ramsay's US TV show Hell's Kitchen.
Restaurants at the Dubai Creek and Connaught hotels followed, the latter branded with his
protégé Angela Hartnett's name.
Ramsay has opened restaurants outside the UK, beginning with Verre in Dubai.
Two restaurants, Gordon Ramsay at Conrad Tokyo and Cerise by Gordon Ramsay, both opened in
Tokyo in 2005.
In November 2006, Gordon Ramsay at the London opened in New York City,[26] winning top newcomer
in the city's coveted Zagat guide, despite mixed reviews from professional critics.
In 2007, Ramsay opened his first restaurant in Ireland, Gordon Ramsay at Powerscourt,
at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Powerscourt, County Wicklow.
This restaurant closed in 2013.
In May 2008 he opened his first restaurant, Boxwood, on the US west coast in The London
West Hollywood Hotel (formerly the Bel-Age Hotel) on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
On 9 August 2011, Ramsay opened his first Canadian restaurant, Laurier Gordon Ramsay
(at the former Rotisserie Laurier BBQ) in Montreal.
In February 2012 Danny Lavy, the owner of the restaurant, announced the restaurant was
disassociating itself from Ramsay, citing a lack of involvement and understanding on
Ramsay's part.
The restaurant closed in 2013.
Awards Opened in September 1998, Restaurant Gordon
Ramsay was Ramsay's first solo restaurant, located at Royal Hospital Road, London.
In 2001, it was voted Top Restaurant in the UK in the London Zagat Survey and was awarded
its third Michelin star.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II
in the 2006 honours list for services to the hospitality industry, but almost missed the
award when his plane was delayed.
In July 2006, Ramsay won the Catey award for "Independent Restaurateur of the Year", becoming
only the third person to have won three Catey awards.
Ramsay's two previous Catey awards were in 1995 (Newcomer of the Year) and 2000 (Chef
of the Year).
The other two triple-winners are Michel Roux, and Jacquie Pern.[34] In September 2006, he
was named as the most influential person in the UK hospitality industry in the annual
Caterersearch 100 list, published by Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine.
He overtook Jamie Oliver, who had been top of the list in 2005.
Also in 2006, Ramsay was nominated as a candidate for Rector of the University of St Andrews,
but lost at the polls to Simon Pepper.
Ramsay's flagship restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, was voted London's top restaurant
in Harden's for eight years, but in 2008 was placed below Petrus, a restaurant run by former
protégé Marcus Wareing.[37] In January 2013, Ramsay was inducted into the Culinary Hall
of Fame.