Article: Icing sugar flies as BBC sends in amateur cook to Ramsay's

CHEF Gordon Ramsay is still boiling today after an amateur cook gave him hell in his own kitchen. Ramsay threatened to pull out of a new TV series after he ended up in an icing sugar fight with his "costar".

Ramsay, 34, had invited management consultant Simon Laws to his Michelin three-star restaurant on Chelsea Embankment for the BBC2 series Friends For Dinner. But the chef became so annoyed with Mr Laws, he called a halt to filming until he agreed to knuckle under.

Ramsay, whose kitchen regime was captured in the flyon-the-wall documentary Boiling Point, said: "I thought it would be a nice gesture to have him in my kitchen but it was two days of hell.

"He had not been told he was wrong ...

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