Article: Gordon the tonic? In a new series of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, gospel singing CHARITA JONES won't stand for Gordon's foulmouthed methods. On a mission to save her restaurant, she tells MARY GREENE about dicing with the kitchen devil. And, overleaf, we find out what happened to past victims of the chef's acid tongue.

Byline: MARY GREENE

A woman needs to be very brave to square up to Gordon Ramsay, but Charita Jones ain't takin' sass from no badmouth chef. 'I told him, "Listen, I'm a churchgoing woman... You'd better mind your language."' Even braver, though, for Charita to volunteer her soul food restaurant in Brighton - the pride of her life - as one of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, in a return of the series where the triple Michelin-starred chef attempts to turn around the fortunes of failing restaurants by flame-grilling their owners and making mincemeat of their staff. Turn around their fortunes, that is, if they're lucky.

Sue Ray, the luckless owner of ...

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