To think Gordon Ramsay is… well, just vulgar?

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I’ve always found Gordon Ramsay’s whole persona pretty vulgar - the shouting, the theatrics, the constant swearing. It all feels so over the top. Clearly it’s worked for his career but it’s never sat right with me.

Then today I came across mention of an old public indecency charge and went to Google because I honestly thought it must be nonsense. I didn’t expect to find anything but it led me down a whole rabbit hole of rumours and stories that are… grim, to say the least.

AIBU to think his “brand” has always leaned heavily on vulgarity and that the more you read, the worse it looks?

Watch the programme where he went into prisons and taught inmates how to cook. I have nothing but respect for him since that.

I remember that one - the older couple I think had been in car accident and were just drowing with one disaster to next and he was really sweet with them.

I think it's a clear TV persona - I do remember Angela Hartnett who worked for/with him seeming to have mutual respect when she was on TV a lot.

I've worked with him and he is absolutely lovely, respectful and kind.

He seems okay to me. His brand has been damaged by his daughter and future son in law uninviting the son’s mother to the wedding! As someone who knows absolutely nothing about them and hadn't even heard of his daughter , I now think I dislike the whole family. I’m sure they couldn’t care less what the public thinks but I think they might now be actively disliked irrespective of the reasons for uninviting the mother. It’ll also over shadow the whole day as they’ve had so much negative publicity. What an embarrassment

He's a larger than life character that's certainly true, but I've heard far more good things about him than bad.

I preferred his original British series of Kitchen Nightmares, he was fantastic with many of the businesses he worked with, I think the hysteria was too ramped up for the American version

Yes without a doubt. Money dosent bu class at all.

I think he comes across like a really nice bloke who just plays up to the persona he got famous for. Same with Simon Cowell and Craig Revel Horwood. I've never heard anything bad said about any of them in real life.

Also if you watch Kitchen Nightmares, yes he shouts and swears but only when people are rude and disrespectful. When they're genuinely struggling and want his help then he's lovely and kind.

I don’t think The Ramsay’s are going to end up disliked. Most people seem to be on their side and see the Peaty family as an embarrassment.

I think the Ramsays are dealing with it with dignity, where as the Peaty family come across really badly.

I didn't say he was a great family guy, but many of us have been gossiped about or had unjust things said about them and I don't want to be part of that.

Whatever he's done, people aren't one dimensional and he has a family...they would probably hate to read this kind of thing about him too. I don't doubt he's done some rotten things...most people have. Thankfully my misdemeanours won't (hopefully!) end up on here.

Where's the proof? I can't find anything except rumours

The bottom line is that you don't get Michelin stars if you can't cook or run a restaurant. The advice he gave on Kitchen Nightmares was always sensible, reducing unrealistic menus and using fresh, local ingredients. This was invariably good sense

Another memory is of some Brit running a place in France. GR took him to the local market and it was clear the other guy hadn't a clue. GR spoke to the stallholders in beautiful, colloquial French and afterwards said he'd learned it working in Paris at the start of his career and he wouldn't be so effing stupid as to open an effing business somewhere he didn't speak an effing word of the language.

Well I AM shocked

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I'm glad...I don't like spite and there's too much of it. Family dramas of any sort are sad enough without us stirring the pot.

It's ok. I think she was shoved back in her. Box quite nicely.

Chefs have always been rough as fuck and hard as nails. You don’t get to be a Michelin starred chef without being a bit of a bastard. I do suspect that under all the bluster he has a heard of gold.

My experience as a waitress at a decent restaurant in central London was that the best chefs were the quiet ones.

I didn’t work in a restaurant where Anthony Worrall Thompson was chef, but I ate in a restaurant where the kitchen was open to the dining room and I noticed exactly the same atmosphere around him: calm, intense, focused and highly organised

I've met him and he was actually really nice, very humble and very good with the younger members in our group.
I've had a bit of a crush on him ever since, didn't expect to be saying that before I met him.

Say that to a het up Scot ,you sound posh and silly..aye good luck with that cos you're going to need it.😁

Dh had to work with him a couple of times and liked him too. Said he was very calm and considerate and nothing like his TV persona.

Oh so do I, he’s got something about him.

so fucking true…they might just get their heid in their hauns 😂

I remember another episode where this woman was trying to run a vegetarian restaurant in Paris - paid for by rich daddy.

She was hopeless, lazy and unreliable. GR found a young chef to help her out, who ended up doing all the work.

Restaurant closed down and young chef ended up working for GR!