http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/incoming/358760/Carole-Malone-Gordan-Ramsays-cooked-his-goose.htmlFINALLY, he's blown it. Not because of his affairs or his sleazy betrayal of his wife and children.
Not because he's a congenital liar and not because his empire is on the slide (although all of the above should have been reason enough).
No, Gordon Ramsay is now a busted flush because this arrogant, chauvinistic boor made the mistake of trying to bully, insult and make a fool of an articulate, intelligent female TV presenter who is loved in Australia every bit as much as he is now hated.
Last week Ramsay compared current affairs journalist Tracy Grimshaw's face to a pig's. He also insinuated she was a lesbian and in an interview he taunted her by asking if a mole on her upper lip "was a wart".
He also joked they'd been lovers for 20 years then laughed and said: "No, no, I wouldn't stoop that low."
But far from being cowed by this idiot's jibes, Tracy chewed Ramsay into a million pieces on live TV then spat him out into the faces of the Australian people.
In her two-minute response to his rudeness she made him look like the bigoted, sexist, homophobe he is- without ever once uttering the F word and never for a second losing her dignity.
And I'll bet the one thing that's gnawing at Gordon Ramsay's guts is that his career-which was dying on its backside anyway-has been torpedoed by a mere woman, those creatures he views as only being good for bonking, bullying and b*llocking.
Because make no mistake, in Ramsay's world women ARE inconsequential. He has no respect for them and regards them as inferiors good for only one thing-and it's not making hollandaise sauce.
Attack
But so visceral has been Australia's response to his attack on Tracy, that even the PM, Kevin Rudd, waded in, slating him as "a new form of lowlife", which makes you wonder why we in Blighty have tolerated him for so long. Why DID we ever rate this bullying, foul-mouthed coward?
Because he IS a bully-and like all bullies the minute someone tougher/ smarter/stronger takes him on, he collapses like a big, wobbly jelly, as we saw in his grovelling, almost tearful apology to Tracy Grimshaw.
Because while he initially tried to pass off what he'd done as a joke, the newsman interviewing him wasn't having it. He berated Ramsay for not having apologised, and when he said he'd tried to, the presenter said: "Well, there's the camera-try again."
And so the Big Bad Bully duly obliged-and it was pitiful to watch.
When he told the interviewer: "I didn't mean to hurt her," the response was: "Well, you did."
And then we saw it. While this man, who because of his position is allowed to heckle, humiliate and destroy people on national television, can dish it out, he sure as hell can't take it.
He then tried to claw his way back to the moral high ground, claiming it was disgraceful that Tracy had insulted his wife Tana.
Of course she hadn't. All she'd said was, "We've all seen how Gordon Ramsay treats his wife- and he's supposed to love her."
She wasn't attacking Tana. She was attacking HIM!
Lies
And how many times is this coward going to swear on the life of his kids that he's telling the truth. He did it in that apology on Aussie TV and he's done it here.
But let's not forget this is a man who's lied about having an affair (to his wife and to us), he's lied about his football career at Rangers.
Hell, he even lied about being told off by his mother for what he'd said to Tracy (he hadn't even spoken to her).
Ramsay no longer has credibility-as a businessman or as a human being-which is why it's hard to see where he can go from here.
Having been exposed as a coward, a liar and a chauvinist, he can no longer play the Big Man-because he isn't.
He's been cut down to size by a 5ft 4ins woman with a brain bigger even than his ego.
And it's made him look small- very small indeed!
