http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/purfleet/Fword-Ramsay-silenced-by-Lynn.1605262.jpFOUL-MOUTHED and big-mouthed TV chef Gordon Ramsay has been making his presence known in Lynn.
I have to admit to watching his various programmes, but only in the hope that someone, somewhere will give as good as they get.
I just can't understand how it is that someone hasn't silenced big gob by now with the copper-bottomed base of one of his saucepans.
He might have met his match had he taken his mouth into the Wenns, next door to Rococo's where he was making an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. Lynn people are made of stern enough stuff to deal with the likes of Ramsay, I know.
Spies tell me he dined with his production crew in Pizza Express and sampled the delights of speedway at the Norfolk Stadium. I don't know what else of Lynn and West Norfolk he experienced, or the opinion he formed of the area and its people... but Rococo's sports new signage and appears to now be called Maggie's.
I'm not so prissy that foul language causes me to shrivel (I've had a career working in newspaper offices), but it loses effect when used constantly in everyday speech without good reason. Ramsay's main claim to fame is that he is bad tempered, opinionated to a point beyond rudeness and sprinkles his language as liberally with the f word as he does his recipes with wine. Better that his claim to fame be as a superb and innovative chef, don't you think?
It would make for an interesting industrial tribunal hearing if he treats his staff the same as he treats
his hapless volunteers for his F Word programmes. No employee would expect in this day and age to put up with such brutal treatment. Do you think it's all turned on for the TV audiences?
So I am delighted to report that the Lynn News silenced "big boy". A polite request for an interview was met with refusal because, he said, he was under contract to Channel 4.
When has anyone ever managed to make him button it? It happened here first, folks!
Ramsay's more of a Rooney when what we need are more Beckhams.
He has maintained dignity throughout his captaincy of the England team, and, despite his showbiz lifestyle, always comes across as grounded, genuine and passionate about what he does best. It was refreshing to see him, choking back tears and red-eyed as he left the field on Saturday and again when he handed on the armband. I'd sooner be an effing Becham than an effing Ramsay any day.
