Gordon Ramsay
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" 'Gordon Ramsay' is an anagram for 'my gonads roar' "
—The Truth About Gordon Ramsay Documentary
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Gordon James Ramsay, OBE (born 8 November 1966) is a British multiple Michelin star awarded chef, television personality and restaurateur known for his ferocious temperament and no-bulls attitude.
He has starred in main roles in successful television shows The F Word, Ramsay's Best Restaurant, and both British and American versions of Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen, and MasterChef. He also made an appearance in the 2017 animated film Smurfs: The Lost Village as the voice of Baker Smurf.
His daugther Matilda has also become a TV Presenter and a celebrity chef.
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- Berserk Button: There are mainly two: badly prepared food, and incompetence on people who should know better.
- Career-Ending Injury: What geared him into a cooking career. He used to play soccer, and got several injuries during his brief career, including an extremely severe knee injury just when he was close to be signed by a professional club. Ramsey then decided that rather than be know as the footballer with the gammy knee he could get a career, and enrolled to study hotel management, from where he jumped to catering, and from there into going to France to study haute cuisine.
- Catch Phrase:
- "Absolutely delicious!"
- "What a shame..."
- "YOU DONKEY!"
- "IT'S FUCKING RAW!"
- "I'M SHUTTING IT DOWN!"
- "Oh, fuck me..."
- "Give me your jacket."
- "Do me a favour... fuck off out of my kitchen!"
- Mean Brit: the modern face of the stereotype, as despite his Scottish origins he doesn't quite veer into Violent Glaswegian.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: A variation: he can be in real life as explosively furious as the persona he embraces in Hell's Kitchen and his renewal shows (as it was that aspect of his personality that got him media attention in the first place), but he is actually quite mellow, and he tends to be extremely nice with children (as shown in the editions of MasterChef Junior he participated) and in his own cooking shows.
- The Perfectionist: the main reason of his success as a chef, and the main reason of his volatile temper in most of his TV shows, is his drive to achieve culinary perfection and his demand on others to have the same level of standards as him.