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26
March 2007
Gordon
Ramsay Confesses To
Staging
Theft
Celebrity
chef Gordon
Ramsay
has admitted in a
magazine interview that
he staged a theft at a
Chelsea restaurant where
he was head chef nine
years ago in order to
get at his former
mentor, turned
arch-enemy, Marco Pierre
White.
Gordon
Ramsay had until now
blamed White for the
1998 robbery of the
restaurant’s prized
reservations book. He
believed White was
plotting to take over
Ramsay's place at the
Aubergine restaurant, he
told the magazine The
New Yorker.
Nine
years ago, an
unidentified biker
pulled up outside the
restaurant, ran in,
grabbed the book and
fled with it. He was
never caught. In the
days before
computerisation, losing
a reservation book could
mean huge losses for a
restaurant. The book
detailed six months of
bookings.
Now,
however, Gordon Ramsay
has come clean. He told
the New Yorker: "It was
me. I nicked it. I
blamed Marco. Because I
knew that would f*** him
and that it would call
off the
dogs."
"It
was my one stroke of
genius," he
added.
Elsewhere
in the interview, Gordon
Ramsay heaped praise on
White, who he said
taught him everything he
knows about
cooking.
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