‘I don’t watch just in case!’: Gordon Ramsay reveals he never tunes into Love Island because he’s worried one of his daughters might have secretly signed up to the saucy show – TH
‘I don’t watch just in case!’: Gordon Ramsay reveals he never tunes into Love Island because he’s worried one of his daughters might have secretly signed up to the saucy show
Gordon Ramsay has revealed he never tunes into Love Island just incase one of his three daughter’s have secretly signed up to appear.
The chef, 56, is father to Megan, 24, Holly, 23 and Tilly, 21, whom he shares with wife Tana as well as sons Jack, 22, and 3-year-old Oscar.
He told the Radio Times rather than risking seeing one of his girls on the saucy show he avoids the series all together.
No thanks: Gordon Ramsay, 56, has revealed he never tunes in to Love Island just incase one of his daughter’s have secretly signed up to appear
Speaking about the TV tastes he said: ‘I’m not good with A&E documentaries, especially when someone passes at the end of it’.
‘And Love Island thinking that, one day, one of my daughters is going to be on there without telling me’.
Before adding: ‘I don’t watch, just in case’.
Family: The chef, 56 is father to Megan, 24 (far left) Holly, 23 (right) and Tilly, 21 (Centre) whom he shares with wife Tana as well as sons Jack, 22, and 3-year-old Oscar (pictured in 2016)
He went on to discuss his hopes of taking to the Strictly dance floor following Tilly’s 2021 appearance.
He gushed: ‘I’m only 56! I’m desperate to learn how to dance. Having Tilly doing so well in that competition, training for two hours, studying for two hours, half-hour off, from 9am to 10 at night, all for a two- minute performance on Saturday… it was so impressive’.
Adding: ‘I would love to get on there’.
Like the plague: He told the Radio Times rather than risking seeing one of his girls on the saucy show he avoids the series all together (2022’s summer cast)
He went on to discuss his new show Next Level Chef describing it as ‘The world’s toughest cooking competition ever’.
He said: ‘First of all, I’m talking tough for the contestants. But it’s also spontaneous and really hard when you’re in the basement, cooking something in 45 minutes with minimal ingredients and no decent equipment’.
‘We have professional chefs, social media stars and home cooks, so it’s a level playing field. The social media chefs just aren’t interested in what’s going on outside – one of them made the most amazing gnocchi out of powdered Smash, served with button mushrooms grown in a greenhouse. It was phenomenal’
Fingers crossed: He went on to discuss his hopes of taking to the Strictly dance floor following Tilly’s 2021 appearance (Tilly pictured with partner Nikita Kuzmin)
However Despite his descriptions the show has left ITV with some very expensive egg on its face.
It comes after sources indicated that it cost ‘well over £500,000’ to build the extremely complex set for his new show at the LH2 Studios in London, which features three complete kitchens stacked atop each other — one basic, one better and the top one pro standard — as well as a lift.
ITV executive Katie Rawcliffe said that the network had built ‘perhaps the most ambitious TV studio the world has to offer’ for the show, in which chefs compete to impress judges and reach the better ingredients and equipment at the top.
The hope, when commissioning it, was that the heavy cost of the mega-set could at least be spread over several runs of the show.
New show: He went on to discuss his new show Next Level Chef describing it as ‘The world’s toughest cooking competition ever’
ITV also thought that if Next Level Chef took off globally, international versions might be filmed in the UK on that very set, further defraying the cost. However, after disastrous viewing figures on its debut last week, the show looks certain to be scrapped without ceremony — and the triple-layer kitchen (nightmare) along with it.
On its debut last Wednesday, it garnered only 1.6 million viewers, an audience share of 11 per cent and well below the 2.7 million slot average for that time of night. It was beaten by BBC1’s Ambulance. This week 1.5 million watched and it was beaten heavily in its slot by Silent Witness on BBC1, which got 2.4 million.
Critics were also unconvinced, calling it ‘contrived’ and ‘bewildering’ with a ‘pointlessly expensive set’. One described it as ‘the laziest show I’ve ever seen’.
Gutted: However Despite his descriptions the show has left ITV with some very expensive egg on its face (L-R) judges Nyesha Arrington, Gordon Ramsay and Paul Ainsworth
Rawcliffe, who is ITV’s head of entertainment commissioning, ordered eight episodes of the show from Studio Ramsay Global (which is co-owned by Fox) in June last year. A version has aired on Fox in America and been enough of a hit to be commissioned for a second series.
The show isn’t the famously foul-mouthed chef’s first flop. Last year he fronted Future Food Stars for BBC1, which followed 12 food and drink entrepreneurs as they competed to win a £150,000 investment from Ramsay.
