I ran into Gordon Ramsay at the NBC commissary just now – he’s appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight. It’s my second live Ramsay sighting. I said hi, thanked him for signing the cookbooks last time he was on Leno and got a hello and a firm handshake. Damn, he’s huge.
I didn’t want to take his time but I asked him if he’d been by Sebastian’s, the subject of one of the most infamous episodes of the US version of Kitchen Nightmares. I said “It’s closed” at exactly the same time he did and then he added “Thank god! That guy was a knob!” I can only ask you to imagine Ramsay’s accent saying ‘knob’; it almost had three syllables. Ramsay gave me a smile and a wink and that’s the update!
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Thanks for posting this story. Nice to hear what Gordon Ramsay is like when you bump into him at the NBC commissary.
I’ve spent the afternoon watching a Kitchen Nightmare marathon on BBC instead of tending to my own kitchen (*ahem*). I’m ready for a new installment of “Boiling Point!”
And that guy WAS a knob.
To fully appreciate his Knobosity, do a search on this very blog for Sebastian’s – he’s left dozens of comments here. For reals.