Gordon Ramsay has insisted there is “no way” he’ll be creating new menus to stop dieting diners feel like “fat f****”.
Gordon Ramsay isn’t changing his menus
The outspoken chef has no plans to follow the likes of Heston Blumenthal, who introduced a “mindful experience” reduced portion menu at his restaurant the Fat Duck in September to cater to those using weightloss medications.
He fumed to the Sunday Times: “That is absolute bulls***. There’s no f****** way we’re giving in to the Mounjaro jab …
“The problem is with them [the diners] for eating too much in the first f****** place!
“There’s no way that we’re coming in with an Ozempic tasting menu to make you feel like less of a fat f*** by 10.30 in the evening.”
Gordon – who has Megan, 27, twins Jack and Holly, 25, Tilly, 24, Oscar, six, and Jesse, two, with wife Tana – believes in the importance of self-discipline.
He said: “The older you get in this industry, you feel the downside of not getting the balance right.
“You can get sucked in, it gets too much and it destroys you, so I’ve always kept that incredible discipline of having a foot in each camp. I have to find time and space to balance out and recalibrate.”
And Gordon think the demands of modern diners make the industry much harder than it used to be.
He said: “[I get] incredibly p***** off with the boring philosophers who go, ‘Well in my day it was much harder’. No, it wasn’t.
“Coeliacs, dietary requirements … there’s so many demands now from customers; we were never faced with that kind of complication 20 to 30 years ago”.
In the summer, the 59-year-old star revealed he had undergone surgery to have a cancerous growth removed from his face, but he has now admitted he only spoke out to put paid to any speculation he’d had a facelift.
Praised for sharing the photo of himself with a plaster on his jawline to raise awareness, he admitted that hadn’t been his intention, but he simply wanted to avoid the sort of scrutiny Simon Cowell has faced over his appearance.
He said: “That f****** plaster was the size of a book cover, so I had to come clean.”
Gordon noted the incident “was a scare” but is grateful it was “dealt with immediately”.