Gordon Ramsay Biography
Gordon Ramsay is a chef, restaurateur, television personality, food critic, and author from the United Kingdom. Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, his global restaurant group, was created in 1997 and has received a total of 16 Michelin stars; it presently has seven. Ramsay rose to prominence in the United Kingdom after appearing in the British television drama Boiling Point in 1999. He is currently one of the most well-known and prominent chefs in the country.
Gordon Ramsay Age
Ramsay is 55 years old as of 2021. He was born Gordon James Ramsay on 8 November 1966 in Johnstone, United Kingdom.
Gordon Ramsay Height
Ramsay stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches(1.88 m).
Gordon Ramsay Family
Ramsay was born Helen (née Cosgrove), a nurse, and Gordon James Sr., a swimming pool manager, welder, and shopkeeper. He has a younger brother and sister, as well as an older sister. He came to England with his family when he was nine years old and grew up in the Bishopton neighborhood of Stratford-upon-Avon. He has described his childhood as “hopelessly itinerant,” claiming that his family was continually moving due to his father’s goals and failures as an occasionally violent alcoholic, whom Ramsay described as a “hard-drinking womaniser.” He confessed in his memoirs that his father abused and neglected his children.
His sister was a waitress at a local Indian restaurant, where he worked as a pot washer. He aspired to be a footballer and was selected to play under-14 football at the age of 12, but his early footballing career was marred by injuries, and he was forced to retire after a catastrophic knee injury. He moved out of the family home and into a flat in Banbury when he was 16 years old.
Gordon Ramsay Husband
Ramsay married Montessori-trained schoolteacher Cayetana Elizabeth Hutcheson in 1996. They have five children, Megan, Holly, Jack, Tilly, and Oscar, and split their time between Los Angeles and Wandsworth Common in London. Megan ran the London Marathon in 2017 in memory of her mother’s miscarriage five months into her pregnancy in June 2016, when a child called Rocky was born. Until 2010, Ramsay’s father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson, was in charge of the restaurant empire’s commercial operations. Hutcheson was sentenced to six months in prison on June 7, 2017, for plotting to hack a computer system related to the Ramsays’ commercial interests. Between October 23, 2010, and March 31, 2011, Hutcheson and his sons were suspected of gaining access to corporate systems about 2,000 times.
Gordon Ramsay House
Ramsay has three properties in Cornwall, totaling £11 million: a £4 million mansion in Trebetherick, a £4.4 million property in Rock, and a £2 million Grade II listed property in Fowey. The Fowey property was placed up for sale in August 2020 for £2.75 million.
Gordon Ramsay Head chef
Marco Pierre White offered Gordon Ramsay the role of head chef at La Tante Claire in Chelsea in 1993. The restaurant was renamed Aubergine, and 14 months later it received its first Michelin star. With the help of his father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson, and ex-Aubergine colleagues, he founded his own restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, in 1998. In 2001, it received its third Michelin star, making Ramsay the first Scot to do so. Restaurant Gordon Ramsay was ranked second best in the UK by The Good Food Guide in 2011, only behind The Fat Duck.
Gordon Ramsay built his first restaurant outside of the United Kingdom, Verre, in Dubai, in 2005. Gordon Ramsay at the Conrad Tokyo and Cerise by Gordon Ramsay, both in Tokyo, opened in 2005; Gordon Ramsay at the London, in New York City, opened in 2006. In May 2008, he opened The London West Hollywood Hotel (previously the Bel-Age Hotel) on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, his first restaurant in the Western United States.
Gordon Ramsay Vegan
In honor of Veganuary in 2019, he introduced a vegan menu to his restaurants and expanded his vegan offerings. Ramsay has a long history of being anti-vegetarian and anti-vegan. When questioned if he had any allergies, he said, “”It’s a joke jack, it’s not vegans!” he continued. Vegetarians are the ones to blame.” In 2006, on The F Word, he changed his mind about vegetarianism after learning about intensive pig farming practices.
Gordon Ramsay Salary
Ramsay earns an annual salary of $60 Million.
Gordon Ramsay Net Worth
Ramsay has an estimated net worth of $220 Million.
Gordon Ramsay Career
Ramsay’s interest in cooking began in his adolescent years, and at the age of 19, he opted to devote more time to his culinary study rather than be known as “the football player with the gammy knee.” Ramsay studied hotel management at North Oxfordshire Technical College, which was financed by Rotarians. “It was a pure accident,” he says of his decision to attend cooking school.
He served as a commis chef at the Wroxton House Hotel in the mid-1980s. He ran the Wickham Arms’ kitchen and 60-seat dining room until his sexual relationship with the owner’s wife made things tough. Ramsay subsequently relocated to London, where he worked in a number of restaurants before being inspired to work at Harveys for the volatile Marco Pierre White.
Ramsay opted to study French cooking after working at Harveys for two years and ten months because he was tired of “the rages, the bullying, and the violence.” Instead of taking a job in Paris, White advised Ramsay to work for Albert Roux at Le Gavroche in Mayfair, where he met Jean-Claude Breton, who would eventually become his maître d’hôtel at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay.
After a year at Le Gavroche, Albert Roux invited Ramsay to join him as his number two at Hotel Diva, a ski resort in the French Alps. Ramsay came to Paris at the age of 23 to work with Michelin-starred chefs Guy Savoy and Jol Robuchon. Guy Savoy was Gordon Ramsay’s tutor, according to episode 18 of Master Chef Season 3. He completed his education in France for three years before succumbing to the physical and mental strains of the kitchen and took a year off to serve as a personal chef on the Bermuda-based private yacht Idlewild. He traveled to Sicily and Sardinia, Italy, as part of his work on the boat, and learned about Italian cuisine.
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