#Oscar ramsay series#
Ramsay then moved to London, where he worked in a series of restaurants until being inspired to work for the temperamental Marco Pierre White at Harveys. He ran the kitchen and 60-seat dining room at the Wickham Arms, until his sexual relationship with the owner's wife made the situation difficult. In the mid-1980s, he worked as a commis chef at the Wroxton House Hotel. He describes his decision to enter catering college as "a complete accident". Ramsay enrolled at North Oxfordshire Technical College, sponsored by the Rotarians, to study hotel management. Ramsay's interest in cooking had begun in his teenage years rather than be known as "the football player with the gammy knee", he decided to pay more serious attention to his culinary education at age 19.
At the age of 16, he moved out of the family home and into an apartment in Banbury. He had hoped to become a footballer and was first chosen to play under-14 football at the age of 12, but his early footballing career was marked by injuries after a serious knee injury, he was forced to give it up. He worked as a pot washer in a local Indian restaurant where his sister was a waitress. In his autobiography, he revealed that his father abused and neglected the children. He has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant" and said his family moved constantly due to the aspirations and failures of his father, who was an occasionally violent alcoholic Ramsey described him as a "hard-drinking womaniser". When he was nine years old, he moved with his family to England and grew up in the Bishopton area of Stratford-upon-Avon. He has an older sister, a younger brother (who was later imprisoned in Bali for heroin possession), and a younger sister. Gordon James Ramsay was born in the Scottish town of Johnstone on 8 November 1966, the son of Helen (née Cosgrove), a nurse, and Gordon James Sr., who worked as a swimming pool manager, welder, and shopkeeper.
In July 2006, he won the Catey Award for Independent Restaurateur of the Year, becoming only the third person to have won three Catey Awards. Ramsay was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 New Year Honours list for services to the hospitality industry.
#Oscar ramsay tv#
He is known for presenting TV shows about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen (2004), Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004–2009, 2014), and The F Word (2005–2010), with the latter winning the 2005 BAFTA Award for Best Feature, and the American versions of Hell's Kitchen (2005–present), Kitchen Nightmares (2007–2014), MasterChef (2010–present), and MasterChef Junior (2013–present), as well as Hotel Hell (2012–2016), Gordon Behind Bars (2012), and 24 Hours to Hell and Back (2018–2020). He combines activities in the television, film, hospitality, and food industries, and has promoted and hired various chefs who have apprenticed under his wing.
Ramsay's television appearances are defined by his bluntness, fiery temper, strict demeanour, and frequent use of profanity. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the UK. His global restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 16 Michelin stars overall it currently holds a total of seven. Gordon James Ramsay OBE ( / ˈ r æ m z iː/ born 8 November 1966) is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer.
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