Gordon Ramsay: 12 key facts you need to know

Posted by Reinaldo Massengill on Saturday, May 4, 2024

Gordon James Ramsay OBE is a chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author from the United Kingdom. Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, which he created in 1997, has received 17 Michelin stars in total, with a current total of seven. Since 2001, his signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has had three Michelin stars.

Ramsay rose to prominence after appearing in the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, becoming one of the world’s best-known and most influential chefs.

Table of Content

1. Gordon Ramsay’s birthday, age, and birthplace

Gordon James Ramsay was born in the Scottish town of Johnstone on 8 November 1966.

2. Gordon Ramsay’s nationality and ethnicity

The TV personality was Scottish and belongs to the white ethnicity.

3. Gordon Ramsay’s religion

Gordon Ramsay believes in the Christianity faith.

4. Gordon Ramsay’s height and weight

The notorious TV personality stands at a height of  6 feet 2 inches and weighs 80 kg.

5. Gordon Ramsay’s educational background

After graduating from North Oxon Technical College with a vocational diploma in hotel management in 1987, he relocated to London and began polishing his culinary abilities under chef Marco Pierre White at Harvey’s and chef Albert Roux at La Gavroche.

6. Gordon Ramsay’s parents and siblings

Gordon James Ramsay was born on November 8, 1966, in the Scottish town of Johnstone, the son of Helen, a nurse, and Gordon James Sr., a swimming pool manager, welder, and shopkeeper. He has an older sister, a younger brother, and a younger sister. He moved to England with his family when he was nine years old and grew up in the Bishopton area of Stratford-upon-Avon. He has described his early life as “hopelessly itinerant” and said his family moved constantly owing to the aspirations and failures of his father, who was an occasionally violent alcoholic; Ramsay described him as a “hard-drinking womanizer.”

7. Gordon Ramsay’s wife and children

Ramsay married Cayetana Elizabeth Hutcheson, a Montessori-trained educator, in 1996. They have five children, including Tilly, and live in Los Angeles and Wandsworth Common, London.

Until 2010, Ramsay’s father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson, was in charge of Ramsay’s restaurant empire’s business operations. Hutcheson was sentenced to six months in prison on June 7, 2017, for conspiring to hack a computer system related to the Ramsays’ commercial interests.[143] Hutcheson and his sons were accused of accessing company networks about 2,000 times between October 23, 2010, and March 31, 2011.

8. Gordon Ramsay’s TV shows 

  • Boiling Point.
  • Kitchen Nightmares.
  • Gordon Behind Bars.
  • Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance.
  • Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live.
  • Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking.
  • Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course.
  • Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back.

9. Gordon Ramsay awards

Ramsay earned the Catey award for “Independent Restaurateur of the Year” in July 2006, becoming only the third person to do so. Ramsay previously won two Catey awards, in 1995 (Newcomer of the Year) and 2000. (Chef of the Year). Michel Roux and Jacquie Pern are the other two triple-winners.  In September 2006, he was named the most influential person in the UK hospitality business in the annual Caterersearch 100 list, published by Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine.
He surpassed Jamie Oliver, who had topped the list in 2005. Ramsay was also nominated as a candidate for Rector of the University of St Andrews in 2006 but lost to Simon Pepper in the polls.

10. Gordon Ramsay home: Where does Gordon Ramsay live?

Ramsay has three properties in Cornwall worth an estimated £11 million: a £4 million mansion in Trebetherick, a £4.4 million property in Rock, and a £2 million Grade II listed property in Fowey.
The Fowey property was listed for sale in August 2020 for £2.75 million.

11. Gordon Ramsay’s earnings and net worth 

The prominent TV personality and chef’s Net Worth is $820 Million US Dollars (£610 UK Pounds). Ramsay has earned over $90 million US Dollars in the past year.

12. Gordon Ramsay’s social media pages

Ramsay’s Twitter’s name is: Gordon Ramsay (@GordonRamsay) / Twitter.

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