Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay

Gordon James Ramsay OBE is a British chef, restaurateur, writer, and television personality. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently hold a total of seven. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food. In 2020, Forbes listed his earnings at USD 70 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked him the 19th-highest-earning celebrity in the world.

About Gordon Ramsay in brief

Summary Gordon RamsayGordon James Ramsay OBE is a British chef, restaurateur, writer, and television personality. He was born in Johnstone, Scotland, and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently hold a total of seven. 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. In 2020, Forbes listed his earnings at USD 70 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked him the 19th-highest-earning celebrity in the world. Ramsay played football and was first chosen to play under-14 football at age 12. His footballing career was marked by injuries, causing him to remark later in life, ‘Perhaps I was doomed when it came to football.’ He has claimed to have played two first-team games for Rangers. In his autobiography, Humble Pie, he describes his early life as being marked by abuse and neglect from this ‘hard-drinking womaniser’ His father, Gordon James Sr., was a swimming pool manager, a welder, and a shopkeeper; his sister and their mother, Helen, have been nurses. He has an older sister, a younger brother, and a younger sister. Ramsay moved out of the family home and into a flat in Banbury at the age of 16, and worked as a pot washer in a local Indian restaurant where his sister was a waitress.

At the age 19, Ramsay enrolled at Oxford Technical College sponsored by the Michelin Star. He is married to his second wife, Lisa, and they have three children. The couple have a son and a daughter, both of whom are currently studying at the University of Oxford. They live in London with their husband and two daughters. They have three sons and two step-daughters, who live in the U.S. with their father and step-sister. The family have three grandchildren and one great-grandchild, who lives in New York with his mother and father-in-law. In 2010, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child, a boy, in the spring of 2013. They plan to name the child after Gordon James Ramsay, who was awarded an OBE for services to the charity The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (R.C.I.A.) in 2010. The father-of-three is also known as ‘Ramsay the Chef’ and has been involved in the creation of the TV series Hell’s Kitchen and the cookery book, Hell”s Kitchen: The Final Table. He also has his own restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, in Chelsea, London, which has held three MichelinStars since 2001. In 2004, Ramsay had become one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the UK by 2004. He rose to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point.