For the climax of the BAFTA-nominated food series, the action moves to Gordon’s restaurant at Claridge’s in London’s West End where the most successful amateur brigade of the series will be cooking the lambs that Gordon and his family have been rearing in their back garden.

For the winning brigade it’s the ultimate culinary challenge. Award-winning comedian Ricky Gervais comes for dinner and gets the surprise of his life when he tastes some of the world’s strangest foods. And there’s mayhem in the kitchen as Johnny Vegas cooks pizza in the recipe challenge.

Tuesday 3 July 2007, Channel 4

Gordon Ramsay has been accused of faking scenes in the US version of Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares.

Martin Hyde, a former restaurant manager claimed that Ramsay lied about finding rotten meat in the restaurant and hired actors to patronise the establishment to make it appear more popular.

A representative for Ramsay denied the allegations, saying: “It’s a reality show and as far as I know it’s not something they do.”

Gordon Ramsay’s BAFTA-nominated food show opens its doors for another night of mouth-watering food, with every dish something you can cook at home, plus recipe-based challenges and fast food that won’t make you feel guilty. Among the paying guests in tonight’s programme is David Gest, who proves to be Gordon’s worst nightmare: a diva in the dining room. Read more & comment »

In tonight’s third programme Top Gear’s James May takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge, and in the restaurant Gordon confronts him with a culinary test of his manhood. Denise Van Outen joins the diners in the restaurant to enjoy a delicious starter of duck egg with tapenade and anchovy fingers, a spicy main course of tandoori spiced halibut with cucumber raita, and a heavenly dessert of scotch pancakes with caramelised bananas. Read more & comment »

Gordon Ramsay’s BAFTA-nominated food show opens its doors for another night of mouth-watering food, with every dish something you can cook at home, plus recipe-based challenges and fast food that won’t make you feel guilty. In tonight’s second programme Top Gear’s James May takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge, and in the restaurant Gordon confronts him with a culinary test of his manhood.

Denise Van Outen joins the diners in the restaurant to enjoy a delicious starter of duck egg with tapenade and anchovy fingers, a spicy main course of tandoori spiced halibut with cucumber raita, and a heavenly dessert of scotch pancakes with caramelised bananas. Tonight’s brigade of passionate amateur cooks are four feisty country girls from Lancashire, and they’re willing to do whatever’s necessary to produce food the 50 diners will be willing to pay for. Read more & comment »

BAFTA Award-nominated Gordon Ramsay’s F Word is television’s most entertaining food magazine show. Last year the second season consolidated its reputation for a fresh, edgy and innovative approach to all things foodie. Now it’s back for a third series, and it’s bigger and better than ever.

Once again the series is set in a glamorous, bustling restaurant so all the action takes place against the backdrop of a working kitchen staffed by Gordon and his amateur brigade: four passionate home cooks who have never cooked for paying diners before but think they’ve got what it takes. New this series: in Gordon Ramsay’s Fast Food , Gordon tackles the “I haven’t got time to cook” brigade. He’s determined to get the country cooking and prove that fast food doesn’t have to be bad food; Janet Street Porter starts slapping F Word Food ASBOs on purveyors of “anti-social food behaviour”; Gordon hunts down and kills some of Britain’s best ingredients; and he faces his toughest smallholding challenge to date: raising two lambs in his back garden. Even Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall thinks he’s bitten off more than he can chew. Read more & comment »

During interviews for his most recent series of The F Word on Channel 4, Gordon Ramsay has admitted tht his house has become very competitive over the last year.

Gordon’s wife, Tana, has released her own book, ‘Family Kitchen’ and not only is it outselling Gordon’s books but last week it also outsold Jamie Oliver!

Speaking to Whats On Tv, Gordon admitted that he got a text last week saying:

‘Jamie Oliver - 2,300 copies. Tana Ramsay - 2,900 copies’, so she even outsold him last week! It’s getting very competitive in the house.”

Gordon Ramsay has spoken about his recent dive off the coast of Norway as part of his Channel 4 show, The F Word.

Ramsay went diving for giant crabs in sub zero waters and spent the next three days trying to defrost his nether regions.

He told Closer magazine: “I was in Norway recently diving for Giant King Crabs for the show. It was minus 25 degrees. We came back and I was freezing my nuts off – I swear to God there were ice cubes in my ball bag.

“I won’t be opening a restaurant in Norway – it took three days for my balls to defrost.”

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 – Read more & comment »

Gordon Ramsay has managed to unleash the wrath of forer Spice girl, Victoria Beckham in the making of his new series of The F Word.

Gordon asked Victoria to look after 25 lambs for him in her 25 acre garden and she apparently thinks they are ‘cute’.

However Gordon failed to mention that the lambs would be slaughtered and cooked as part of his final show in the F Word series.

A friend of Victoria told The Mirror: “She met them when they were delivered on Monday and thinks they’re adorable. What Gordon neglected to mention, though, was that he was planning to have them killed”

“There was no way she’d have agreed to it had she known and she’s less than impressed at the news” the source added.

What did she think he was going to do? He is a chef after al…it doesn’t take a genius!

In tonight’s second programme Gordon tackles a pub for the first time, getting to grips with The Fenwick Arms in rural Lancashire. The pub is run by landlord Brian who, after thirty years in the business and a quadruple heart-bypass, still puts in 120 hours a week and insists on laying down the law in the kitchen. Despite their best endeavours Brian and his partner Elaine are £250k in debt, losing £1500 a week and facing bankruptcy within three months unless there’s a drastic reversal in their fortunes.

This is a pub with ideas way above its station: the tables in the restaurant are set as if the Queen is about to arrive for lunch, and the complex menu boasts ostentatious dishes galore, all coated with Brian’s cloying signature sauces, or gravy only fit for filling potholes in the pub car park. In the cramped kitchen, stuffed full of Brian’s world-class collection of novelty dinner plates and appliances bought from eBay, the head chef is only allowed to dress the food. There’s an urgent need to get back to basics, galvanize the staff and produce great, simple food to bring the punters back before it’s too late. Can Gordon get Brian out of the kitchen for long enough to allow his Campaign for Real Gravy to turn things around? Or will a curmudgeonly Brian call time on Gordon’s attempts to save his business?

FOX announced today that it has ordered up a second season of the hit reality Tv show HELL’S KITCHEN.

The show starring Chef Gordon Ramsay and a group of aspiring restaurateurs achieved record viweing figures during its first series which was won by Michael Wray. Fox hope that this second series will reach even higher heights!

Casting information for Season 2 will be available at fox.com.