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Article: Cooked up: Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares; Those angry scenes in Gordon's new TV series were set up say bitter restaurant bosses.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 9, 2004
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Byline: ANDREW CHAPMAN;KEITH BEABEY
THE series was dished up as a Gordon Ramsay special. The famously temperamental triple Michelin-starred chef was to turn things around at failing provincial-restaurants by roasting the kitchen staff alive.
And Channel 4's Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares delivered what it promised.
More than four million viewers tuned in to hear the superstar chef utter the f-word 111 times in the first episode alone.
He forced one chef to flee the kitchen in tears after telling him he was 'a lazy slob who lacks inspiration', that he cooked 'like a tw*t' and that the food was the 'f****** pits'. In the same programme he ...