Episode Reminder
A 21 year old Chef who can’t make an omelette, a owner who’s unaware of what’s going on in her kitchen.
Trivia
F-Word Count: 75 Times
Rustic Count: 3 Times
The Aftermath
April 2004, London Evening Standard publishes an article alleging that the Kitchen Nightmare production company faked the culinary disasters and placed the chef there purposely. More Info
May 2004, The Daily Mail reports chef Tim has been offered a job by Gordon Ramsay to work in one of his London restaurants, but Tim knocked back the offer as he has ambitions to run three of his own restaurants and become a TV celebrity. More Info.
July 2004, Sue Ray the owner, says she is going to sue Gordon Ramsay and the television show producers for landing her £400,000 in debt. Claiming the episode unfairly portrayed her restaurant. More Info
September 2004, Gordon Ramsay goes back to visit Boneparte’s Restaurant as part of a revisited episode, and found since the episode screened, Tim was sacked, the restaurant had stopped serving food and Sue has put the business up for sale, she says she has narrowly avoided bankruptcy.
February 2005, The Guardian reports Sue has now placed Boneparte’s on the market for £450,000. More Info.
March 2005, The Daily Star reports that Sue the ex-owner of Bonaparte’s Resturant is now homeless and jobless. Sue went bankrupt owing £400,000. Within the same time Sue was caught drink driving, at her court appearance said stated that her TV appearance in Kitchen Nightmares led to her financial and personal downfall, she pleaded guilty and was banned from driving for 12 months. More Info
July 2005, The Daily Mail publishes an article about ex-chef Tim, which comments about Tim not being able to hold a job since the airing of Kitchen Nightmare and claimed he just got sacked from his third job when his boss found out about Bonaparte’s. More Info
June 2006, Ramsay won a High Court case against the London Evening Standard, which had alleged, after reports from previous owner of Bonapartes, Sue Ray, that scenes and the general condition of the restaurant, which was the subject of the first episode of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, had been faked. Ramsay was awarded £75,000 plus costs. Ramsay said at the time: “I won’t let people write anything they want to about me. We have never done anything in a cynical, fake way.” Wikid
June 2006, Boneparte’s Restaurant is taken over by a Spanish couple and renamed Reflectionz, with the restaurant now specializing in Tapas. More Info
August 2007, Tim the ex-chef goes to court over drink driving offenses, he claimed the negative publicity from the show has led him to drink driving. During the questioning by police Tim repeatedly made references about Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and it being the cause of his ‘ruined’ life. More Info
Status = Closed.
Help needed! Swear counting | Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen:
June 20, 2008 at 3:23 pm
[...] I would very appreciate some help counting the F-word(for trivia sake), as already done for the Boneparte’s [...]
Wolfgang:
July 22, 2008 at 9:37 am
Sometimes I don’t understand the people who opens Restaurants, they don’t know antything about the restaurantbuisness, I’m happy that those noknows fail from time to time, because if they all have success.
Gordon helped her so much, I saw yesterday a episode called the REAL GORDON RAMSEY, Tim said that there was nothing faked and that they had a chance and blew it.
mijj:
July 28, 2008 at 7:59 pm
this morning i burned my toast. I’m sure, in some way, it was Gordon Ramsey’s fault! (the bastard!)
Karen Davis Jones:
December 22, 2008 at 1:20 am
This owner was pathetic, slobbing around in bedroom slippers in the bar and restaurant. She was a disgrace and just tried to blame anyone but her lazy slob self.
Ronny Henri:
January 21, 2009 at 12:04 am
Nobody is perfect…and some people are worthless. By this do not mean Sue, the former owner of Bonaparte’s, but the chef Tim Gray. The WANKER!
He probably won’t find a job ever again, workin in a professional kitchen. I’m am a chef myself and i never seen such a worthless chef as this Tim. This is something that Sue only can blame herself, hiring this noob!
Ronny Henri:
January 23, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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January 23, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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ALKi:
May 6, 2009 at 7:36 am
The guy is not a chef just a lazy ass want to make easy money and thought cooking is easy.. the owner is a retard with no business brain
Lisa:
May 8, 2009 at 8:04 am
I thought apart for being a idiot that couldnt make a cup of tea she must have been sleeping with the idiot chef that sent her broke?.
Jay:
June 4, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Both the owner and the chef (Tim) are pathetic. They have the nerve to sue Ramsay. Any food inspector would have closed them down without questions. They should sued for negligence causing injury if any of their patron get food poisoning. The fact that they both were convicted of drinking and driving and then blamed Gordon shows you their real characters.
Jay:
June 4, 2009 at 5:27 pm
What bothered me the most was not Tim’s poor cooking skills, but his bad attitude. He simply does not care if someone gets sick from contaminated food. Anyone can have an off day, but it does not take a genius to see that food is bad when there is mould and fur all over it. He was going to knowingly feed people with food infested with bacteria? That is a crime.
Mike:
June 10, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Serves them right for running such a joke of a restaurant.
Sue Ray had no right to cry and complain about “how the show ruined her business” when she and she alone is responsible for what happened.
As for Tim well that’s what happens when you screw around and pretend to be something that you are not and then get caught lying.
I say good riddance to them and hope the new owners have great success just to rub it in Sue’s ugly face.
Kitchen Nightmares: Gordon Ramsay Takes a Bite Out of Culinary Crime : TV Casualties:
June 17, 2009 at 8:29 pm
[...] the contestants and either spitting our their food or dumping it on them. (Episode 1 has an F-word count of 75, in case you were curious.) However, unlike “Hell’s Kitchen“, in which [...]
LW:
June 27, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Call me crazy!!! But I for some strange alien unexplainable reason, I see Tim becoming a pastry chef, IF he focuses.
jake:
July 2, 2009 at 1:09 pm
How pathetic. Wanna know what’s more pathetic? I read that Ramsay offered Tim a job apprenticing in one of his restaurants, to learn how to cook instead of just pretending.
He turned down the offer as he thought he would be able to break into show business.
Chris R:
July 16, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Any news on the owner, Sue Ray? Last I heard she was broke and homeless.
Stefan Ekström:
July 27, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Introducing TIm Gray, he can spot fine dining and bla bla bla.
johnstone:
September 19, 2009 at 12:04 am
I’d like to bang Sue’s lights out.I like those little porky bitches.
Romano:
September 21, 2009 at 8:10 am
“Tim has been offered a job by Gordon Ramsay to work in one of his London restaurants”
??????
So strang ! The guy can’t make an omelette, and Gordon offer him a job?!