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or is Tana Ramsey a half-wit?

90 replies

Greensleeves · 09/09/2010 09:43

did anyone watch Hell's Kitchen USA (it's dh that likes it, not meBlush)

where she dressed up as a contestant and said she was a SAHM, and he called her out and said her food was delicious and then SNOGGED her - to shock everyone - and then she took the wig off and everyone went ooooooooh, it's his wife

she then dutifully trooped off while he told everyone the point he had been making - which was Hmm that it doesn't matter who you are, even the lowliest housewife blah blahdi blah

gross

how can she STAND him??!?! Is she just fick?

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CatIsSleepy · 09/09/2010 11:55

i used to quite like Gordon, then i saw that program where he went arsing around India cooking for nonplussed locals and swearing alot. He came across as completely crass.

Can't imagine what it's like to be married to him, I imagine it must be a blessing that he probably works long hours.
'lowly housewife', what an arse, honestly.

I cannot stand Hell's Kitchen USA, mainly because the contestants are all so bloody annoying. So intense and earnest.

mayorquimby · 09/09/2010 12:03

and they're simply awful line-cooks.
Still makes for good watching.
GR: did you just semn me raw chicken
contestant: Confused Blush Shock
GR: YOU COULD HAVE ** KILLED SOMEONE

EarthMotherImNot · 09/09/2010 12:05

GR says "fuck me" quite a lot, so presumably he doesn't get muchWink its freudian methinks.

I'm currently hooked on "Top Chef Masters" at the moment. It's soooo intense plus the evil Jay Raynor, who could ask for moreGrin

narkypuffin · 09/09/2010 12:25

I'm friends with a lovely bloke whose wife is buttock-clenchingly irritating. He's been married for 15 years. He survives by turning his head slightly when she kicks off, as even with his hearing aids, he needs to lip read to understand what people are saying.

Maybe Tana can slip off to a happy place and visualise herself skipping through a meadow or rolling naked in £50 notes.

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Greensleeves · 09/09/2010 18:48

Oh I have an unhealthy fascination with food critics

they are all such mutants Shock

my personal fave is Kate Spicer. I fantasise about air-dropping her into a war-torn refugee camp and watching her pull her spoilt discontented face when somebody offers her a bowl of food

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BootyMum · 10/09/2010 10:26

Yes Greensleeves, My personal fave/irritation is Giles Coren from The Times? Now he's a bit of an odd ball... Those articles he writes in a self deprecating tone saying "I'm normal me" but then dropping in details of his lifestyle and education which just sound smug...

And don't get me started on Michael Winner!

BigBadMummy · 10/09/2010 10:29

conkie I know where he lives. It is near some very good friends of mine.

Do you want to stalk him?

Oh the stories we could tell about this celebrity couple.

And her kitchen is by no means from "Ikea and basic". Though his is awesome, his oven alone was £60K

jonicomelately · 10/09/2010 10:38

I wanted to like her on that ice-skating programme but unfortunately she came across as a bit of a wet blanket.

They deserve one another imo.

horsefly · 10/09/2010 10:45

The lowliest house wife my arse - hasn't she written cookbooks for "family food" herself.

I guess that's what he think's of her - she can't use my masterful kitchen - she's just the lowly "wife"

Litchick · 10/09/2010 10:54

I recall one of his shows when he used to go out to failing restaurabts ad help. He looked at a chef's food and said 'my wife cooks shit like that.'

Then she released a cookery book ( disclaimer I was sent it as a gift along with a lot of other books from my publishers ).

Litchick · 10/09/2010 10:57

Actually, the book has some nice recipes, but she comes across as a PITA, with her 'hidden greens' in the spag bol, or 'we all need to be able to put someyhing on the table quickly,' routine for 'working days'. Hmmmm. What does she do again?

zazen · 10/09/2010 10:58

Am LOLing with the spam fritter and mooncup!! Thanks greeny Grin

zazen · 10/09/2010 11:00

Christ if that's Auden 'on Desire' - there's really no hope. ha ha ha

Am cackling so much I think I might do meself a mischief!

TheCrackFox · 10/09/2010 11:15

Years ago, when Gordon was just breaking into TV he did a fly on the wall type documentary and Tana was serving up spaghetti hoops, fish fingers and chips for their children. It was quite clear, as well, that Gordon had never seen his children eat as he commented "why is that one not using a knife and fork" and Tana replied "because she is only one and would poke her eyes out".

Lo and behold, a couple of years later she had reinvented herself as a brilliant cook.

Yes, they deserve each other.

zazen · 10/09/2010 12:01

LOL "that one" TheC,rackFx I wonder did he actually know his own children let alone wonder about their table manners!!

blimey - I agree: "Yes, they deserve each other."

zazen · 10/09/2010 12:03

sorry that should of course be TheCrackFox

oliviacrumble · 10/09/2010 12:14

Once read an article where Tana Ramsey's sister said that she was always shocked by Tana's lack of knowledge of current affairs.

Tana explained that it was essentially because her husband was her whole world, and she hadn't time/inclination to read newspapers etc. Hmm

Am paraphrasing wildly here, BTW.

toomuchmonthatendofthemoney · 10/09/2010 12:23

titanic mooncup

snort snort

needed that, thanks!

kreecherlivesupstairs · 10/09/2010 12:33

Olivia, that is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
Off topic, I love Jay Rayner, my idea of heaven was Friday nights One Show. Adrian and Jay (I'd have to call him a different name if I shagged him though).

PosieParker · 10/09/2010 12:36

He has never changed a nappy and refused to attend any of his children's births.....he is a wanker.

HappySlapper · 10/09/2010 12:45

He is a cunt, it's true. I'd still do him though. Out of spite Grin

I had no idea she was like this. In my head, she dresses as a dominatrix and rogers him senseless with a strap-on Grin

sethstarkaddersmum · 10/09/2010 12:46

you wouldn't want him at the birth though would you?

rofl @ "because she is only one and would poke her eyes out".

wukter · 10/09/2010 12:54

'that one'
Laugh or cry, eh?

Do like the ad for the new series with all the chefs crying in slow motion, though.

sethstarkaddersmum · 10/09/2010 12:58

I like Jay Rayer too.

am also with Greenie on not being too sure about Kate Spicer as a food critic. I worry she's going to go into the loos afterwards and barf it all up again.

NorbertDentressangle · 10/09/2010 13:10

MIL has the Tana Ramsey cookbook so I had a flick through it. Its so twee though, the photos make you want to barf -it seems she has a permanent smug smile on her face whilst cooking, the photogenic children get featured a lot, the Gordon lookalike son not so evident.

All very happy families.....Hmm

PMSL at the descriptions of Gordon in this thread -I like the 3 week old spam fritter one in particular