Foul-mouthed TV chef Gordon Ramsay has won $138,000 (£75,000) in libel damages from a newspaper over an article claiming scenes from his hit show ‘Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ were fake.
London’s Evening Standard claimed the programme faked scenes to make a Yorkshire restaurant look like a health hazard.
"I won't let people write anything they want to about me," Ramsay fumed outside London’s High Court.
"We've never done anything in a cynical, fake way."
The article alleged Ramsay and production company Optomen put in an incompetent chef and made-up kitchen disasters in a West Yorkshire restaurant for a 2004 episode of the show.
Gordon solicitor said the article had damaged the famous chef and the production company Optomen’s reputations.
"No scenes had been faked [and] the kitchen was indeed untidy and a health hazard," he said.
"The restaurant was already in financial difficulty before the programme was filmed and the chef was not installed by the claimants."
The newspaper has since apologised for printing the false story.
