Gordon Ramsay is a British chef and a reality TV star. He is most known for his appearance in “Hell’s kitchen”, “The F word” and American version of these shows.
His estimated net worth is around 160$ million and his annual salary is around 60$ million per year.
Early life
Gordon Ramsay was born on 8 November 1966 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK. He spent his childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon and was the second of four children. Two of his siblings have been imprisoned for heroin possession as juveniles.
Gordon’s mother, Helen and his younger sister Yvonne have been nurses and his father Gordon James Senior died in 1997 and worked as a pool manager and shopkeeper.
Ramsay’s childhood wasn’t a happy one. In his autobiography, Humble Pie, he wrote that his family moved a lot from one place to another due to his father’s failed jobs offers. His father was an alcoholic and a womanizer, who was often violent to him and the rest of the family.
At the age of sixteen, Ramsay moved out of his family home and moved into a flat in Banbury in Oxfordshire.
Football aspirations
At an early age, Ramsay tried to build his football career. When he was only twelve, he was chosen to play for Warwickshire. However, he had no luck with his football career because he often got injured and had to pause his playing.
In his autobiography he claims that, in the 1984, he even got a trial with the Rangers and was signed by the club when he was only fifteen. It was later discovered that he wasn’t on the first team and that he only trained with them for a while and that he left after his knee injury.
Cooking career
After he failed to pursue his football career, Ramsay decided to dedicate his time to build his cooking education. He attended the North Oxfordshire Technical College to study hotel management. His decision came more as an accident than a life choice.
Ramsay worked in restaurants around the town, and he seemed to be doing well managing larger kitchens and restaurant staff. He knew that the only way to progress further in his career is to study French cuisine. He worked in Le Gavroche in Mayfair where he met Jean-Claude Breton who offered Ramsay to work with him in a ski resort in French Alps as his helping hand.
After three years, Gordon had to leave his position due to high stress and mental pressure the job entitled, and decided to work on a private yacht Idlewild in Bermuda.
After his return to London in 1993, Ramsay was offered a position of head-chef at La Tante Claire in Chelsea. After few successful years in Chelsea, Ramsay finally had the chance to open his own restaurant. The restaurant was opened in 1998 with help of his father-in-law Chris Hutcheson. In 2010 his father in law resigned from the position of company’s CEO.
The restaurant won its third Michelin star in 2001, and after that he opened three more restaurants, PEtrus, Amaryllis and Claridge’s. since then, Ramsay has opened restaurants in Dubai, Tokyo, New York City, Ireland and Montreal.
Business interests
All of his restaurants and other business properties are held by his company Gordon Ramsay Holdings Limited. Ramsay shares this company with his Father-in-law, and the company was valued to around 67$ million in 2007.
His company also bought few pubs and gastro-pubs around London. He also worked as an consultant for many catering organizations including Singapore Airlines.
Some of his restaurants around the world have suffered a loss of popularity by the customers, but nevertheless this hasn’t affected Ramsay’s income a whole lot.
TV career
Gordon Ramsay is mostly known from our TV screens. He appeared for the first time in documentaries Boiling Point in 1998. In 2001 he appeared on the TV series Faking It, and the episode in which he acted up won the BAFTA award.
In the period from 2004 to 2007, Ramsay appeared in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on Channel 4, 2007 Hell’s Kitchen on ITV1.
In 2005, FOX network offered Ramsay a chance to do an American version of Hell’s Kitchen. The show was a complete success and in 2014 13th season of the show was aired. The audience fell in love with Ramsay’s perfectionism and his famous short temper behavior.
Personal life
In 1996 Ramsay married Cayetana Elizabeth Hutcheson. The couple has four children and in 2016, they announced to the public that they are expecting their fifth child. Only a month later they announced that Tana had a miscarriage. His father in law, Christopher Hutcheson was responsible for his restaurant empire, but in 2010 he resigned and the partnership ended with a lawsuit.
Quick summary:
Full Name: Gordon Ramsay
Date of Birth: November 8, 1966
Birth Place: Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Age: 50 years
Profession: Professional cook, TV personality, reality TV star
Height: 1.87 m
Weight: 105 kg
Net worth: 160$ million
