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.