Gordon Ramsey in India

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did anyone else think he was a bit crass and slightly naive at times?

victoria peckham once asked the priceless q on here

" gordon have oyu not made enough money now to be able to fuck off?"

I know he is known for swearing but his constant use of "Jesus" was really offensive.

And the swearing made it unwatchable, in my opinion.

Some very good friends of ours live next door to him and he is a complete cock. Tana is lovely and will always stop to chat but not Gordon.

i think the f-word won't be picked up again next year, they moved it from prime time to ten pm mid-run, which shows channel four's lack of faith. i wonder if the mail has been covering this, it's right up their 'foul mouthed tv chef' street.

Where is NP?

Will fb her.

I was a fan of him a few years ago (until I realised what a mysoginist he was) and I love Indian food so I thought I would watch this.

The food was great, but I found him hugely disrepectful, especially when he was at the ashram and sat on the golden ball in the middle of the pool, just absolutely no respect for the beliefs of other people.

Also saying sexually suggestive comments to the women he met was just awful, and their elegance in dealing with him just made him look like a fool.

And I agree with GetOrfMyLand when she says that he feels uncomfortable when he comes up against middle-class, wealthy, educated Indians, for someone who has a bit of a superiority complex it must be a struggle.

And can he find any other words to describe the food rather than "delicious"?

I watched last night and felt that he finally felt at home and relaxed and less showeyoffey when he was in the slum restaurant with the fabulous chef shouting at him to get stuff done.

I smiled at the fact that everyone kept calling him fat/overweight and old. They seem to be less sychophantic than european/american people he comes into contact with

Going against the grain here. I like him. I lioke his energy. He is a great chef - so says Michelin tho I have never eaten his food. He is driven. He makes good telly. We don't KNOW what happens in his private life. Maybe Tana stays cos he is a good bloke. He is self made. Are many of those in the media who decry him jealous?

what did you think of the show, lardy? what do you think his indian hosts thought of him?

ps the media has been paying him vast amounts of cash to do his thing, if anything i'm not seeing enough decrying tbh.

Hmm. I think it is all typical telly manipulation. Gordon feigning suprise that the chutney is amde with ants for example (he will of course have read the scripts. And leaning back to chat to us as we supposedly share a taxi with him. It is all made ot be good telly to make us think we are on a great adventure with a mate. The F Word was changed for the last series and Grodon was made to look like a good bloke supporting local restaurants, not swearing and praising the food instead. It is all media constructs. Knocking him down is part of the same. It is all publicity and all money. If he were more tame the producers may have thought is less good telly. 'Drama is conflict' as I learnt at school. I can't buy into it. If I saw someone in the street talking to someone else in the street in this manner I would think it rude but telly is telly. Does this make sense?

I saw Gardeners World being filmed once at the Malvers Show and could not look into it in the same way. 'One more time Monty, give it more welly' the direcotr cried as he enthused' hello and welcome to GW' and then they immediately after filmed the end with the 3 presenters sitting on a bench with plastic bags full of their supposed purchases and raving about how wonderful it all had been.

BTW do you reall ythink there were 3 choices on the cards for the winning contestants ot choose on Blind Date. Don't you think there was just one choice but it was a bit more drama to feed us with??

not really, tbh. unless you're saying that he's a rude git who's always been like this and that the producers are only now letting us see this in its glory because they think he's at the end of his shelf life in this country?
i think that might be it, tbh.

saying 'give it more welly' isn't manipulation, it's direction.
and my pal was on blind date, lol, there were three cards. he got a shit day out at alton towers.

I think he is probably a rude git and that was encouraged for the India show. Not sure where the future lies for him but I wish him well. I have enjoyed watching him.

I think at the ashram they decided to let him get on with it and look like a nob. No need for them to object to his behaviour, if you just carry on acting reasonably in the face of such twuntery it's a more powerful way of disapproving.

what I didnt get on the f word what what IS a locla restuarant
i mean all restaurants are local to SOMWHERE arent they

for that reaosn
i not a watcha it

i was once "picked out of the crowd" to be in a fashion show.
hilarious.

you were gokked!

Only saw last night's programme, but I was at his behavoiur. It was wildly inappropriate and totally unecessary. I went to Kerala years ago, and the people were incredibly friendly and helpful, very gentle and polite. They must have been utterly amazed at how he went on.

I really liked his Kitchen Nightmares programme, and although he was always pretty agressive with the people on it you felt that he did actually care about them enough to want them to succeed; a sort of tough to be kind management approach which seemed to work well for him.

Unbelievable when he was calling that poor man a little f*cker! And more, just ranting at him.
Anyone else notice how most of the experts he met were women, and he just couldn't handle it at all? He was rude to them and accorded them no respect at all. Hard to imagine him meeting the male equivalent and not going into some gush about what wonderful chefs they were etc.

He was awful. I knew he was bad, but this was terrible.

Did anyone else think it was like watching someone on a stag night in Prague or something? Just did not give a shit, no respect, really juvenile and pathetic. The saddest thing is that giving him airtime reinforces that behaviour as 'acceptable' to people who think like him.

I've been to Kerala too, and it saddened me to see how vile he was being in the face of such lovely, lovely people. It was a real clash, and one that reflected so badly on us Brits.

I hated it

Watched this last night and could hardly believe what I was seeing.

His behaviour was bizarre and embarrassing. That "OOh I'm an Alpha Male" shtick is getting so old and boring. Ranting and raving about the vegetarian food (I need MEAT, I'm a REAL man) and huge surprise that it could be tasty ("I was expecting it to be bland" - really, Gordon, you were expecting a veggie CURRY in INDIA to be bland?)

The appalling way he spoke about that woman food writer, his utterly pathetic behaviour at the Ashram... I can hardly believe C4 showed it, unless they are looking for an excuse to get rid of him.

Hi. I'm normally a huge Gordon fan, but I felt disappointed after watching the programmes. I think it was his chance to redeem himself after all the bad publicity he's been having recently but he just came across as this arrogant rude twat! I wanted to see a humbler, maturer Gordon....

I'm Indian myself and squirmed at his lame attempts to joke with the people he met and his behaviour at the ashram was shocking - doing lengths across the meditation pool and shouting for meat (has he not heard of when in Rome etc.....)

I am not vegetarian but always eat veggie food in India (it's so tasty, NOT bland and you don't miss the meat imo) and the vegetarians he met were a lot more agile and sprightly then he was!

A huge opportunity missed I think!

The food looked delicious. He looked like a prize fuckwit. His complete lack of respect for ANYONE was appalling. His language was appalling. His self-importance was appalling. God, he was just appalling.