I am so totally in love with Gordon Ramsay that he is booting one of my other fake boyfriends from the Top Five. Can you believe it? I thought for sure that Anderson, Michael, James, George and Antonio would always remain my top five. But I’m booting James. I just have to. I love Gordon that much.
I just finished reading his autobiography today at lunch and it was brilliant. I’m positive a ghostwriter helped him, but that ghostwriter needs to be paid a healthy bonus because the book so effortlessly sounded like Gordon that I can’t help but think that the ghostwriter just sat down and had Gordon speak into a recorder for a few hours a day for a couple weeks and then just typed up what Gordon said. I truly felt like GORDON wrote this book.
And what a book – from his days as a child suffering from abuse by his dad, a promising career in football (soccer) that was destroyed due to an injury, and his subsequent obsession with all things food – this book was a real pageturner and I came away from it adoring Gordon Ramsay even more than I did before.
I watch all his tv shows (both the American and the British), and I’m disappointed that we won’t be able to eat in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant in Scotland next month (the one he had in Glasgow shut down in 2004). I may add “Gordon Ramsay” to my Tivo search so that it records ANYthing in which he appears. I remember seeing a BBC-sponsored biographical show about him as well.
Anyway, if you like Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” or BBC America’s “The F Word” then you’ll love this book. It’s a no-holds-barred profanity-laden joy to read.
There is a Santa Claus. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Sounds like it’s right up there with your dryer balls.
I have like one or two women on my fake girlfriend list: Ashley Judd and maybe Charlize Theron, but she said something crazy about freedom in America the other day to the press so she’s off my list.
So it sounds like Ashley is the only one for you in the celeb world, huh?
I’ve put this on my list of books to buy, Jaynee. I love Hell’s Kitchen, but I seem to always catch just the last 15 minutes of it. I’d love to read more about Ramsay.
Have you ever read The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin?
I didn’t really enjoy the second part of the book about his adult life too much, but the first part, about being apprenticed to a chef when he was a boy is FABULOUS! It was in the days before you were allowed to fool around with recipes (coq au vin was ALWAYS coq au vin, wherever you dined), and his training in the kitchens of Paris hotels was a real eye-opener for me.
A good book to get from the library.
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