Category — Gordon Ramsey

A contestant on America’s Next Top Model‘s current cycle has left the competition after throwing a fit on set while standing in front of the show’s judging panel. It’s not surprising, as she flipped out earlier in the competition when she didn’t respond well to a makeover.

British-born Louise Watts, 25, ran off the set after hearing criticisms of her photos from the judges and threw a tantrum outside the building and requested to leave the show immediately. She even made a physical threat against guest-judge, publicist Kelly Cutrone, who was involved in that week’s photoshoot.

It’s definitely something you want to see for yourself, so check out the video below:

Surely, some contestants would be cheering inside, with a fellow model out of the running for the Top Model title!

Did you think that was great flip out? Check out my Top Ten Reality TV Tantrums and Meltdowns below! Some real shockers in this list. Reality television is amazing.

10. Nilka getting fired by chef Gordon Ramsay on Hell’s Kitchen (US)

It’s not a massive outburst from aspiring cook Nilka, but you really feel for her when she begs to come back into the kitchen. Of course, Ramsay says no again and again. And she’s eventually kicked off the show. You can’t make judgements about her cooking just based on this clip, but you do feel her passion, and seeing her leave was a real downer. Something nice does happen in the end though!

09. Water throwing  tantrum on The X Factor (UK) – but is it too over-the-top?

This one is almost too theatrical for me to take it seriously, but let’s give ‘em the benefit of the doubt that it’s not a set-up! It’s really fun to watch the drama unfold and how judges Sharon, Louis and Simon react! I must admit it is a shame that we don’t get to see the contestant sing in this video. Please take note of the dramatic music, which definitely adds to the comical nature of it all!

08. Wanna count the number of f*cken beeps coming out of this contestant’s mouth? Again, from The X Factor (UK)

Judge Simon Cowell described auditionee Rachel as one of the rudest, deluded and untalented people ever to grace his competition. You can feel the delusion when she admits to being bigger and better than Madonna. It doesn’t get physical, but it sure does get verbal! She definitely has attitude. Talent? Less so.

07. Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa throwing a double-tantrum on The Celebrity Apprentice (US)

Joans Rivers sure is a piece of work! And she sure has a thing against poker players! After daughter Melissa is eliminated, Joan has a go at the two responsible contestants. Melissa is even more pissed off as she grabs her things and leaves the building immediately with her mother. Don’t miss this one!

06. Farmer Dave threatens to leave Big Brother (Australia) after an argument with intruder Perry

Having been accused of playing the game, Dave gets into a hissy fit and threatens to walk out of the reality show to prove that he isn’t in it for the money. There isn’t any wall punching, but you can tell he is really upset and angry. Of course, he doesn’t go through with the promise and stays in for a few more weeks until he finishes fourth.

05. Thirteen year-old Rachel Crow has a serious meltdown on The X Factor USA

OK, so this is where it starts to get crazy! After hearing that she’d been eliminated from the competition, Rachel drops to the ground and starts screaming and sobbing uncontrollably! She’s inconsolable, but it does make for fantastic television! This could only happen on reality TV! It’s a real moment caught on tape. She’s clearly distraught. And judge Nicole Scherzinger feels the impact too.

04. Tyra Banks goes apeshit on contestant - America’s Next Top Model

Sure, you get lots of crazy contestants on reality programs, but here, you see the tables turned with host and judge Tyra Banks really having a go at one of the modelling hopefuls! She’s been known for being outrageous at times, but this is really a shocking moment! You might feel sorry for the girl getting yelled at and I question if it was necessary for Tyra to speak to a contestant like that. You judge for yourself!

03. Gretel Killeen losing all professionalism while interviewing evictee Michael McCoy - Big Brother (Australia)

This interview has since been labelled ‘The Gretel Incident’. The way Killeen treats Michael in this video is absolutely horrendous. In a heated discussion about the editing of the show, she becomes extremely defensive and hostile towards her interviewee. It’s all centred on Michael’s perception that he was being portrayed as having been intimate with openly gay contestant, Dave. Michael claims that footage of him speaking with Dave seems to suggest that the pair may be kissing. And Killeen is quick to brush of these allegations in the most unprofessional way.

She’s the host of the show and her behaviour, in my opinion, was completely unacceptable! She paid no respect to the evictee, who was actually calm, polite and respectful towards her throughout the whole ordeal. I shook my head when this was going live to air, and I’m still shaking my head now watching it on YouTube:

02. Contestant Tarisai Vushe shows her true colours backstage and has a real go at judge Mark Holden - Australian Idol

This outburst is one of the few that I remember clearly in my mind, despite having only watched it on air once. And the reason is simply because of how brilliant it was to see a contestant really take a verbal swing at a judge! It all started on stage, with Tarisai receiving generally negative reviews for a performance that was suppose to show the angry and ‘true’ side of her personality.

In the weeks leading up to this, she had been accused of being fake and little support was given to her by the judges. And then on performance night, she is panned by all of them and especially Mark, who admits that he thinks she isn’t showing her true colours. You should watch how she reacts when Mark comes backstage to see how she’s doing. And she really lets it rip! The footage was shown during the results show, and you can hear the crowd cheering her on. It was definitely a great moment in Aussie reality television!

Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to save Tarisai from being eliminated that night, as she finished fifth overall in the competition. Her singing career doesn’t seem to have hit off, with a short appearance on The X Factor Australia last year, where she was quickly booted off after meeting the four judges.

01. A near punch-up in an extremely heated argument between Bianca, Renee and Alice about Bianca’s body - Big Brother(Australia)

Here’s my number one! It’s a really tense scene, with a real ugly atmosphere. Things were absolutely uneasy in the Kombi van that night with the discussion being a possible breast reduction for Bianca. The chat is mostly between Renee and Alice going up against Bianca about the issues of having large breasts. And everybody gets defensive. It’s really hard to watch at times, especially knowing how it all ends. It’s gets real ugly!

I personally am on Bianca’s side because it is her body and regardless of how the discussion has progressed during that short time, I think Bianca was right to feel ganged up on. But then again, if you watched the last season of Big Brother, you definitely know how short her temper is! She gets fired up really easily and things could have really gone pear-shaped here.

I picked this as the top tantrum/meltdown because it’s centred on a really sensitive issue and the way the tension grew was really unpredictable. And when you watch this, especially when it was on air, you don’t know what could happen. That’s what’s special about reality television. You just don’t know what’s going to happen! It’s not scripted. It’s real. And it’s about real people and real emotions. If Big Brother is coming back for good, then I hope we’ll get to see more of these shocking, unreserved moments.

I hope you all enjoyed these videos! Tell me what you think of them. Which ones really shocked you? And what are some of your Top Reality TV Tantrums and Meltdowns?

Hell’s Kitchen started on Lifestyle Channel on Saturday night at 8.30pm hosted by Gordon Ramsay with the usual rag tag of chef contestants. Ok maybe they are not chefs but line cooks.

Anyway someone with a lot of time on their hands has done this hilarious video on Gordon by cleverly editing footage. It is not for the faint hearted.

Radar Online have a story declaring Gordon Ramsay’s Dwarf Porn Double Found Dead In A Badger’s Den.

Look I know this story may seem exceedingly low end, however I learnt two things from this story.

1. There are dwarf porn stars, and

2. There are celebrity lookalike porn stars.

So don’t tell me this blog is not educational.

This week it emerges that a restaurant owner/chef Joseph Cerniglia, 39, who had been on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares has been found in the Hudson River deceased.

The owner of an Italian eatery called Campania, was seen by viewers in the 2007 episode of Kitchen Nightmare had allegedly committed suicide.

Gordon Ramsay has come in for some criticism from various media outlets about his style on the show, which slightly questions whether he could have contributed to his death.

The SMH writes:

When the chef sighed, Ramsay said: “Are you getting upset now?”

Cerniglia said that he was “getting real upset”, to which Ramsay replied: “Thank —- for that. Hopefully I’ll get through to you now.”

Later Cerniglia told the programme: “I’m financially in trouble. The debt of the restaurant alone is overwhelming. My personal debt – wife, kids, mortgage – that’s a lot of debt.”

Ramsay asked Cerniglia: “Why did you become a chef-owner if you haven’t a clue how to run a business? Your business is about to swim down the ——- Hudson.”

Mr Cerniglia’s mother, Pat, told the programme: “I worry about Joe. I worry about his stress levels.”

His wife, Melissa, said the couple had “put everything on the line for a dream”, adding: “If this business fails, we will lose everything.”

The also write:

The restaurant survived after Ramsay suggested changes to its menu and layout in the 2007 series.

Customers said it had recently been doing well and was usually busy.

And also mentioned that he was the second Kitchen Nightmares participant to commit suicide.

Trying to create a link between the cause of the suicide and Gordon is spurious. He appeared on the show 3 years ago, and if you look at the YouTube footage on the SMH site,  he did not seem too scarred by the experience.

Also by casting these aspersions it does no favours for people who suffer from a mental illness or suffering from depression. Mental illness is much more complex then that.

Hopefully a local station will buy the rights to the US version of Masterchef, as with Gordon Ramsay as host it looks like it is going to be great.

 There is a video on news.com.au here which has Gordon Ramsay saying quite rightly – what the fuck?

If you cannot be bothered watching it  here it is in summary and I am on Gordon’s side.

Reporter goes to Maze restaurant in London, which is on of Gordon’s restaurants and orders a well done steak,

He then comes back to Australia to confront Ramsay with pictures of the steak saying it was over done and rubbery.

Huh says Ramsay clearly confused, and he handles this fuckwittery well,  in the end saying but you ordered a well done steak…

No wonder he loses his rag sometimes if this is the type of crap he has to put up with.

Hell's Kitchen Starts Tonight

A Current Affair must be loving the publicity from the “feud”  between Gordon Ramsayand Tracey Grimshaw. They won in the ratings from Today Tonight for a long time.

If you have been holidaying in Bhutan for the past week go to this The Punch article to get an overview. But basically Gordon said she was a lesbian pig.

Frankly I am getting a little bored of the whole thing. Yes what Ramsay said to Tracy Grimshaw was degrading, but how often have A Current Affair subtly degraded people over the past decade. 

Today the story sank to new lows with an an article dredging up the story of Ramsay being arrested in a toilet 16 years ago, implying there may have been something gay going on. This was not the case.

So not ok to call Grimshaw a Lesbian, but OK to imply that if you are in a public toilet block that something homoerotic must be going on. Alan Jones may refute that.

Also why in 2009 is being a lesbian or dabbling in homosexual activity seen to be a negative thing.

Yes we know Gordon Ramsay is a prick but isn’t that why we the viewers made him a superstar?

Anyway if you want to see Ramsay at his arsehole best the new series of Hell’s Kitchen starts tonight on the Lifestyle Channel at 8.30pm.

It is the latest series from the US not the season 2 that Channel 9 unsuccessfully screened earlier this year.

It appears Gordon Ramsay who was super hot for Channel 9 in 2007 is beginning to go the way of gladiator sandals and is on the way out.

Last week Hell’s Kitchen USA premiered on Channel 9 to very low ratings of 625,000 in the 9.30pm timeslot.  It is a wonder Channel 9 has not pulled it since they are the kings of the knee jerk reaction.

Here is what I see is wrong with the show:

They get on second rate chefs who have worked in cafeteria’s  and diners to ensure Gordon is able to humiliate them at every opportunity.

It is so obviously fake, and scripted, even Gordon’s “anger” is scripted especially when he closes the kitchen, and

It is Season 2, in the US they are showing Season 5, and Lifestyle showed Season 4 at the beginning of the year.

Personally I think Gordon is becoming a parody of himself, and obviously the stories of his infidelities has NOT helped his credibility. He needs to take some time out, refresh, and then return to television.

Hell’s Kitchen on Channel 9, Tuesday night at 9.30pm.

There will be a lot of Australian women disappointed when they learn that Gordon Ramsay’s wife Tana will be escorting him when he comes out to Sydney and Melbourne this year for the Good Food and Wine Shows in June and July.

Gordon who when he was here last time alledgedly fraternised with a Julie Vidovic who then sold her story to New Idea. If you happened be holidaying in Bhutan when Gordan’s indiscretions broke click here for further details.

Tana is clearly taking no chances with her reality TV chef and his keeping a tight rein on him.

Full story: here.

Author Kathy Lette Using Gordan Ramsay’s Philandering To Promote New Book.
Popular author Kathy Lette has been opportunistically using the reality TV chef’s philandering on his wife Tania to promote her book. She has sent her book To Love Honour and Betray (Til Divorce Us Do Part).

And has said Lette said she believed Tana Ramsay was handling the crisis the wrong way.
“I don’t think she should be doing that whole standing-by-my-man routine,” Lette said.
“When you have made your entire fortune from perpetuating the myth of being the ultimate family man … it’s hypocrisy.”

Full story in the SMH.

Kristy Hinze Furthering Her Education
In the Daily Telegraph it reveals the Project Runway host is furthering her education by sitting for the SATs, which is the equivalent of the HSC. Kristy left school early to further her modelling career. A decision that paid dividends in the long run.

She must be very good at time management, as she has a busy career, a new fiancee to tend to, and million dollar houses to examine on Sydney Harbour. Full story here.

Wes Carr To Perform on Channel Ten’s New Years Eve Coverage.
But alas it will not be the Michael Jackons number. Wes says “..it is a party trick.”
Full story The Daily.

Carly Smithson From Last Season’s American Idol Talks About Life Post Idol.
The LA Times has an interesting and indepth article with Carly Smithson and what life is like once the tour and the press junkets are over.

Donald Trump The Executive Producer Of The US Version Of Ladette To Ladies.
Donald Trump appears to continue to dabble in reality TV. He is the executive producer of the US of version of Ladette To Ladies. It will be called The Girls of Hedsor Hall. To be screen in 2009. Reality Blurred has further details on this and other reality TV shows to hit the US next year.