http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/84890/Marco-Pierre-White-Ramsay-s-filth-has-dragged-us-into-the-gutter-



FLAMBOYANT celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has accused his controversial rival Gordon Ramsay of dragging the restaurant business into the gutter.

Marco Pierre said he only starred in ITV’s Hell’s Kitchen to repair the damage done by foul-mouthed Ramsay, who stars in Channel 4’s Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

He felt Ramsay’s bad language and huge ego were destroying the reputation of talented chefs who work outside the spotlight.

He said: “When I did Hell’s Kit­chen it was because I did not like the way certain people were portraying my industry.

“I joined the show and didn’t shout and I didn’t swear. I didn’t do any of that. I went on there and I did my job to the best of my abilities. I think they were shocked. I honestly bel­ieve if Gordon was made of chocolate he would eat himself.”

The two men were once colleagues when a young Ramsay worked in Marco Pierre’s kitchen but today they no longer speak.

Ramsay’s aggressive rantings in the kitchen have become his trade- mark but he met his match when as a young chef he was reduced to tears by Marco Pierre.

The last time they spoke Marco Pierre referred to him as “the ­monster Ramsay”.

He said: “The last words I ever said to him were: ‘Has somebody stolen the bolts out of your neck, Gordon?” Marco Pierre, 47, was speaking at a charity breakfast in aid of Norwood which supports children and families with learning difficulties and other disadvantages.

He told guests of the charity, whose president is Richard Desmond, owner of the Sunday Express, how the death of his mother when he was six had made him an “angry young man” but also helped him achieve his goals.

He said: “I was born in humble ­beginnings in Leeds and when I left school I didn’t know what to do with my life.

“The effect of my mother’s death as a child I did not realise at the time.

“It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that the internal pain I had suffered started to show itself.

“That is where my reputation as an angry young man started to manifest itself.

“The very long hours I was working – I would do 80 to 90 hours a week – acted as a painkiller for me.

Marco is becoming a rather sad figure to me, it seems his ego has taken such a beating, that in his version of HK-UK, he had to have posters of his younger self on the walls of the kitchen.  Gordon won more Michelin stars than he, so he gave his stars back (all of a sudden they mean nothing to him).  Gordon is the ultimate bad boy chef, so Marco is now, he says, a gentle loving soul ((except for all the bad-mouthing he does about Gordon (a monster, indeed!)).

He says Gordon is ruining the reputation of Chefs everywhere, but is proud to admit that his terrorism in the kitchen, brought not only Gordon, but many others, to tears, even ripping the clothes off one chef who complained of the heat.   He is a Chef who would throw customers out of his restaurant for not much more reason than he felt like it, and if you were female (customer), you might be privileged enough to have him screw you in the walk-in.

We all know now that Gordon was so wrong to steal Aubergine's reservation book and blame it on Marco, it was so wrong, I was so disappointed to hear GR admit to it, but message to Marco, my dear, you are a world class, respected chef.  Gordon surpassed you because he had the ambition, and the drive to be better than you, and you let him, you coasted on your laurels and he overtook you.

So keep following in his footsteps Marco, maybe someday, you can be the next Gordon Ramsay!

P.S.  It seems Marco's new show is more of a take-off of Raymond Blanc's "Last Restaurant Standing", so first he takes over for GR in HK-UK, and now is taking over for his mentor, Raymond Blanc in the US version of LRS.  Mentors and protegees, beware, Marco is on your tail!