UPDATE 6.50pm: Grimshaw kicked off ACA with a massive spray at Ramsay, saying she was having a go because “bullies thrive when no-one takes them on”, calling him an “arrogant narcissist”, and denying they have any “great relationship”. She added:
Truly I wonder how many people would laugh if they were effectively described as an old, ugly pig. How is that funny exactly? And worse, it’s not even witty.
... Gordon Ramsay made me promise not to ask on Friday about his private life. He then got on stage on Saturday, and made some very clear and uninformed insinuations about mine. Obviously Gordon thinks that any woman who doesn’t find him attractive must be gay. For the record, I don’t; and I’m not.
I still think she could have used the approach in the video below though.
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It’ll be a pity if, as is being reported , Tracy Grimshaw doesn’t confront Gordon Ramsay tonight on ACA over his insults towards her.
Because here’s one way she could deal with him. I particularly like that Ramsay looks shocked after being force-fed a leg-ham-sized portion of his own medicine:
(To recap quickly: Ramsay essentially called Grimshaw a pig on Saturday and followed up with some appalling innuendo today.)
These days Ramsay has that whiff of mothballs about him. After a brilliant run, playing to his strengths, people are tiring of him. The swearing and tantrums have become ho-hum. Somewhere in, oh, the middle of Kitchen Nightmares, it started to sound like he was doing it only because the cameras were rolling, not because he genuinely cared. It stopped being funny.
I did think to myself that Ramsay might get through it when he said this after being asked about the pig comments:
Ramsay [said the] audience had taken his “light-hearted banter” well. Australians were known for their sense of humour and his words had been taken “way out of context”, he said.
“I find it hard to believe that anyone was offended when it was a throwaway line that was not there to cause any upset.
“Christ, this is a resilient, tenacious country full of excitement and buoyancy. I never thought of anyone in Australia having to be wrapped up in cotton wool.
“I’d be horrified if I’d offended anyone,” he said.
But being “full of excitement and buoyancy” and having generally thick skins doesn’t mean there aren’t lines you shouldn’t cross. He’s overstepped the mark. I, for one, won’t look at him with the same admiration I did just three days ago.
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