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| by: Rick McGinnis | July 15, 2008 5:19 PM | comments: (0) |
I'm watching Hell's Kitchen UK right now - Fox's replacement for the Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen, which ended last week with an entirely unconvincing win by Christina. The British show has a celebrity spin - instead of aspiring chefs, the contestants are celebrities - boxers, models, TV presenters and the like. The only names I recognize are Kelly LeBrock (anyone remember The Lady In Red?) and singer Paul Young (I'll never forgive him for his cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart.)
The chef in charge isn't Ramsay but his mentor, Marco Pierre White, a man whose reputation as an authoritarian and bully actually exceeds Ramsay's. White retired at the top of his game years ago, after realizing that his third Michelin star signalled how little fun he was getting from cooking, and retired to a montage of fishing and shooting - killing stuff, basically. He's a broody, unhappy looking man, redolent of curdled testosterone.
He's described by Piers Morgan of Celebrity Apprentice fame as "the only man, to my knowledge, who's ever made Gordon Ramsay cry."
"I didn't make Gordon Ramsay cry," White rumbles. "He made himself cry."
That's a line I've got to use, with almost limited variations.
"I didn't punch him in the face. He made me punch him in the face."
"I didn't crash that car. The car made me crash the car."
"I didn't make that owl extinct. The owl made me make it extinct."
Gold. Pure gold.
Rick McGinnis sees all (whether he likes to or not). This blog is about TV, movies, books, and pretty much anything that he decides to write about. Except opera. Never opera.
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