Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay, is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality. He’s considered one of the most famous British celebrity chefs, alongside Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, and Delia Smith. He rose to fame through his skills as a head chef and then through his first restaurant. Opened in 1998 in the Chelsea neighbourhood of London, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay got its third Michelin star in 2001. This was the start of his Gordon Ramsay Restaurants group, which owns and operates dozens of restaurants across the globe with plans to keep expanding.
Gordon Ramsay started his TV career in the late 1990s with two TV documentaries on restaurant kitchens, before appearing on a the reality TV series Faking it in 2001, where he helped a man learn to become a chef. This led to the launch of two hit reality TV shows in 2004 with Hell’s Kitchen, a show where chefs compete in cooking challenges and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, where Ramsay set out to help failing restaurants. He followed this up with an American version of Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. Other TV series Ramsay has starred in or appeared in include The F word, Gordon’s Great Escape, MasterChef US, Hotel Hell, MasterChef Junior, Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, and many more. He’s an avid dog lover and currently has four dogs himself, along with one cat.