Gordon Ramsay has announced that he is sick of seeing male chefs on TV and wants to find a modern day Fanny Craddock to raise the female profile in cooking.

Gordon told The Sun:

“The world needs a new female cook. I’m genuinely fed up with the glut of alpha male chefs crowding the screen and battling for supremacy.

“I’m horrified by the lack of women cooks –

especially on TV. I want to fill the shoes of legendary TV cook Fanny Cradock.”

He will launch his Find Me A Fanny search in the new series of Channel 4’s Gordon Ramsay’s F Word on May 8.

A C4 spokesman said: “If you’re a woman and you think you can show Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith a thing or two, or even Gordon, then he wants you!

“When he finds the winner she’ll even get her own slot on The F Word.”

Gordon Ramsay’s F Word, C4, May 8, 9pm