Is Gordon Ramsay Going To Destroy Reality T.V.?
Stentorian and epigrammatic chef Gordon Ramsay has been busted and even sued recently over his stateside reality television show "Kitchen Nightmares." And as the U.K.'s Times reports, there's trouble with his U.K. show, "The F Word," too. Allegedly Ramsay doesn't even spear his own sea bass, a particularly pointed barb in light of his bad boy renegade hunter-sauteér image. Also, don't they teach you that at chef school alongside how to make a tuile on desert island and chiffonade for the shipwrecked? All the sordid fishy details after the jump.
More than 4m viewers watched as Ramsay zipped himself into a rubber diving suit, grabbed a spear gun and travelled 13 miles out to sea to hunt bass, bream and mullet in his first attempt at spearfishing.
"I feel like a f****** action man," the chef declared as he prepared to demonstrate how it is possible to catch your own food.
"I have got three stunning sea bass," he boasted as he returned to shore gripping the 2ft-long, freshly speared fish. "I have never caught a fish from a spear and it's not bad for first time out."
But Ramsay didn't catch any fish at all on his trip. The prime specimens he went on to grill with saffron and fennel over an open fire on the beach had in fact been caught by a local expert taken on the trip for that purpose.
"I went in 20 minutes before everyone else to make sure we had fish to put on the barbecue," said Dave O'Callaghan, a member of the British spearfishing squad with more than 20 years' experience.
"I caught about four and then Gordon got in and we spent about an hour in the water. When we came back in we threaded the fish onto a stringer and he carried them.
"Put it like this: Gordon Ramsay caught f*** all."