Gordon Ramsay blasted Delia Smith on GMTV last Friday, saying he was ‘insulted’ by her lazy cooking.

“You know, it’s really hard for me because she was an icon,” Said Ramsay. “She removed all that intimidation out of food, gave the nation an amazing amount of joy for years, and you know it’s a real insult now. So more than anything I’m frustrated that we have to teach the nation to cook from a tin – tinned mince. Tined mince! So I’m insulted and I share that view with a lot of top chefs in this country that are fed up with that level of laziness.”

The top TV chef also revealed he’ll be hanging up his apron on his Kitchen Nightmares series. Speaking to GMTV’s Michael Underwood about his American show, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA, he said:

“They’ve just asked for 25 more. When we had the last programme that went out, there was 33,000 applicants. Now I personally, I’ve haven’t said this before but, I don’t want to do anymore nightmares. I think I want to stop because it’s a lot of hard work. I put so much effort into it, but then when it doesn’t work, I get the blame.”

Ramsay went on to add that fat chefs should get the chop from the kitchen: “I don’t think a chef should be fat, because I was a fat chef once, and so I don’t think it’s a good advert for customers, especially when it comes to encouraging them to eat desert, and you look at the poor fat chef and think, ‘Well why should I have a desert? He’s clearly eaten them all.’”