Gordon Ramsay: still around, still tedious

Great excitement in the office this morning! LiS' favourite celebrity chef and advertiser of gin, Gordon Ramsay, was on the Jay Leno show last night and, as you can imagine, he was just a hoot. There he was, making his usual contribution to haute cuisine and anger management by larking it up round a stove with Jay and - oh, what giggles! - Dustin Hoffman. Ramsay looked uncharacteristically nervous, I thought. Which was a far cry from how he looked the last time I saw him. So for purely and wholly legitimate work reasons, I was invited to a celebrity's birthday a year or two ago. I'd tell you whose birthday it was but unfortunately I'd then have to kill you. Anyway, among the celebrity guests, all of whom worked in the same, non-food-based profession as the birthday celebrant, there was Gordon Ramsay who, frankly, looked as... [read full story]