http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191786/Australias-Prime-Minister-calls-Gordon-Ramsay-lowlife-row-TV-host-reaches-boiling-point.htmlAustralia's Prime Minister has waded into an extraordinary row between Gordon Ramsay and TV presenter Tracy Grimshaw.
Kevin Rudd took time out from dealing with his country's economic woes to brand the celebrity chef 'lowlife'.
His intervention came as the unseemly spat between Ramsay and Ms Grimshaw ramped up dramatically.
She used her show A Current Affair to hit back at the insults he had thrown at her at a food and wine show, and as he threatened legal action, her station chiefs at Channel 9 released backstage video of the chef insulting stylists and a weather forecaster.
All this after what had seemed to be a fairly uneventful interview on Grimshaw's primetime programme on Friday night.
The famously foul-mouthed Ramsay's TV programmes Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares are ratings winners for Australia's Nine Network.
But on the Saturday morning after the Current Affair interview was broadcast, the chef and restaurateur hosted a foodie event attended by about 3,000 people in Melbourne.
Ramsay told the stunned audience that Grimshaw was a lesbian and needed 'to see Simon Cowell's Botox doctor'.
He also showed a doctored picture of a woman naked on all fours with the face of a pig and said 'that's Tracy Grimshaw'.
Ramsay repeated the insults on Sunday and Monday at the same food exposition. Later he said he was only joking.
Grimshaw failed to see the humour and retaliated on her programme last night, calling Ramsay an 'arrogant narcissist' and a 'bully'.
'Obviously Gordon thinks that any woman who doesn't find him attractive must be gay,' Grimshaw said. 'For the record, I don't and I'm not.'
She also attacked Ramsay's relationship with his wife, Tana. She said: 'We have all seen how Gordon Ramsay treats his wife and he supposedly loves her. We are all just fodder to him.'
The presenter continued her attack today in a radio interview during which she said Ramsay would not be invited back on her programme.
'I'm not interested in speaking to the bloke again,' Grimshaw told Fairfax Radio. 'I can't imagine any circumstances where I would want to interview him again.'
Now the spat has drawn in Prime Minister Rudd, who made it clear he was so offended by the chef's remarks that he felt he had to speak out .
Congratulating Ms Grimshaw on giving Ramsay a 'left uppercut' when she responded to his attack, Mr Rudd added: 'I think I can describe his remarks as reflecting a new form of low-life.
'I just drew a breath when I saw the sort of stuff which was said about her. I just think that's off and offensive.'
Surrounded by reporters who followed him on his morning run along the Yarra River in Melbourne, Ramsay claimed that 'things have been over-exaggerated' and he had never used the word lesbian when speaking of Miss Grimshaw.
'I am very sorry now that Tracy now decides to attack my wife...
'So for me on a personal front to see how sad and how bitter for someone like that to come out, a renowned pro, to stoop that low to attack my life is disgusting.
A series of uncut scenes shot minutes before Ramsay's ill-fated interview Miss Grimshaw have also been released by Channel 9.
They show the chef swearing and insulting staff at the Channel Nine TV studio.
In make-up, he was filmed speaking to staff saying: 'Christ almighty. Your f****** breath stinks. F****** caffeine. Turn round the other way.'
In another shot, speaking about the station's weather forecaster Lavinia Nixon, he said: 'She doesn't know her a*** from her elbow. She said it would be p***** down with rain at lunchtime and it isn't.'
He also told another female reporter that if she ran a marathon she should rub extra-virgin olive oil into her nipples.
He said: 'Having run ten marathons, extra-virgin olive oil is good for the nipples. Hot tip.'
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Meanwhile, Sarah Simmons, the woman at the centre of an alleged affair with the chef, has labelled Ramsay as 'nervous and very angry at the world' following his outburst at Grimshaw.
'If women were an ingredient I think he would liken them to lard,' she told Australian TV show Today Tonight from her Los Angeles home.
'He would think they were stupid, a little chunky, just good for baking cakes and staying at home.
'I would say right now that his ego is starting to eat him up and he is beginning to look to the general public, myself included, like a vicious pig.
'I don't know why Gordon Ramsay is doing certain things. I can only say from the outside that it looks to me that he is very nervous and very angry at the world.' 'When I know him if you could get past the hot headiness he is quite a nice person.
'Sadly these days I think he is growing into his own persona and was becoming a parody of himself.' And the alleged former lover says she is not surprised at the chef's comments about Grimshaw.
'Gordon Ramsay called me a name I would rather not repeat it is so disgusting and low level I still haven't forgiven him for it,' she added.
