To think "Jamie at Home" shoudl actually be filmed, you know in a 'home' that we could relate too.. not him cookign in what appears to be a shed...

[Dabbles]

(prepares to be shot down by all the posh people who have their outside oven...)

There are no Tory's on my island. Maybe Hagues new book is lying next to my towel to be read after Hugh has finished with me.

Here - let me help you up.

I used to know HFW's sister vaguely. Nice lady, did look exactly like Hugh. Same hair and everything.

sophable just to go back to teh GR rumour and osrry if amn being dense, glass of vino too many (hic)! was the GR sucker male or female?!

Erm, quite a lot of this thread is defamatory and I suspect there is no one around from MN HQ to pull it so maybe let it die out?

right. male. allegedly. tana, really it's all about making him more attractive.

Quite a lot of this thread's defamatory? Eh?

i believe that it is a woman's right to gossip.

no one is saying 'this or that definitely happened' we're talking about rumours.

which is think is allowed, oh spanky one.

Well, Kathy unless someone can prove all this stuff is true, yes it probably is...

Very JUICY!
Sure GR wont give a stuff what mumsnetters write about him, he is always slagging off his fellow chefs!

definitely - gossip is FUN!

Krabbie, there are a few posts quoting rumours. That doesn't amount to a lot of the thread.

The problem is that with the state of the law at the moment, it doesn't matter hugely that this is on a late night thread and not in the front page of the Sun.
[Feeling like a killjoy emoticon]

"on" even

If it bothers you then report the specific posts - there are actually only a very small number retailing this rumour.

but the fact that they are couched in rumour rather than fact means that they are not surely.

otherwise no speculation or alledging about anything at all.

do we need a legal expert?

'retailing'
i'm not selling them kathy

bah humbug!!

Eeeh, am not bothered personally, Kathy, I just think it's a but late at night for anyone at MN HQ to be up to delete particular posts. Probably GR is not the most litigious person in the world and won't give a stuff BUT you never know...
And I seem to be keeping this in active convos so I think I'll just shuffle off to bed...

[Kathy gets insecure and goes off to check Dictionary.com]

"5. to relate or repeat in detail to others: to retail scandal.
?verb (used without object) "

But if you have any more as good as that one I will pay good money

It's not quite my field, sophable, but my recollection from lawschool days is there a limit to how much you can get away with the old "allegedly" - otherwise if you think about it, the tabloids would be even more stuffed with scandalous crap than they already are.
I really am going to bed now.

I often wonder if he really uses that sort of language "At Home" in front of his kids

This made me laugh:
www.holymoly.co.uk/news/28/gordon-ramsay-says-that-swearing-in-necessary-in-the-kitch en-844.html
By the way Sophable, what is a pinko?

puffling have you been trawling through old threads.

a pinko is a commie. but people that call people that are generally referring to socialists. or indeed anyone that doesn't think you should bring back hanging, not to say lynching.

i started a great thread once (preens) about pinko liberal guardianistas uniting.

mumsnet has gone all right wing since then.

Only read OP.

Mmm, BBQ.