Reality Ravings

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.

Either Gordon Ramsay is full of bollocks or the supposed Australian shag of his Julie Vidovic is.

Gordon has come out saying he had never heard of her. So is Julie an opportunist trying to make some cash out Gordon's infidelities?

If Gordon is denying all his affairs, I think he also denied the Sarah Symonds one, and it is found to be true what does this do for his credibility? But maybe he is just trying to save his marriage.

Property consultant Julie Vidovic, 42, has claimed in a magazine that she slept with Ramsay on two occasions this year.

She has claimed she met Ramsay at Sydney's The Ivy nightclub when she was drinking with former Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke, a friend of hers.

Apparently she has sold her story to New Idea. By denying Julie's claim has Gordon just ensured the story runs for another day?

Source of story Daily Telegraph.

Previous post on Gordon and his english mistress in a post called Gordon Ramsay Must Wish He Was French.

Julie Vidovic has been revealed as the mystery woman who allegedly shagged reality TV chef Gordon Ramsay in Sydney.

Gordon who recently got caught having an on and off mistress of seven years Sarah Symonds would appear to have a penchant for blondes. So all brunettes and redheads who would like a crack at Gordon (and these would be numerous in number) should head to a hair salon.

My theory of his blonde fetish may be confirmed next Friday night when the final episode of this series of Hell's Kitchen airs with blonde Christina going head to head with Petrozza. We will have to see who will take out the title.

Source of story and photo SMH.

Famous reality TV chef Gordon Ramsay must wish he had kept his apparently large appendage in his pants after mistress Sarah Symonds sold her story to english tabloid News Of The World.

After denying last week that he did have a dalliance, it has been revealed that Sarah was not his only indiscretion. The Daily Telegraph were in lather when they found a local angle that there is possibly a Sydney women involved. They hopefully put in today's paper the phone number for her to contact the paper to reveal all. If this girl wants to reveal her night with Gordon she will be selling her story.

Unlucky for the Hell's Kitchen chef the country of his birth is very wowserish about infidelity, however if he was French this puritanical frenzy would not be occurring.

The then French President when asked to comment on former John Major's British Cabinet, who at the time were resigning in droves due to sexual indiscretions said "I would be surprised if a Minister of mine did NOT have a mistress."

Gordon Ramsey must be feeling like those contestants on his show Hell's Kitchen after he has given them a bollocking - totally humiliated.

It has been revealed everywhere that he has been having a seven year affair with Sarah Symonds, a professional mistress.

Details of their tryst have been revealed in that quality rag http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk. They kindly told us that Gordon likes to dabble in amyl nitrate.

Now a few questions were raised in my mine about the article. How in the hell does he find the time to have an affair, and how do you drink two bottles of wine in 75 minutes?

Anyway Tania his wife is standing by him at this point. And I presume Ramsay is trying to hunt down the person who leaked the story to the tabloids. I wouldn't want to be that person once he finds out who it is as they will be totally roasted.

Here is a TV advertisement that suggests this is what Gordon Ramsey was like as a child.

It is quite amusing.

Leigh Buchanan Looking For Financial Backing For His Label.
Leigh Buchanan the runner up of Project Runway Australia is looking for a backer for his fashion label. Leigh's was one of the stand out collections from the final three.

In the meantime he has been showing another creation of his to the public. His character Barb - a '70's housewife character who wears a rich red dress and cool curly wig came out at a drag show at The Powerhouse in Brisbane this week.

For a further update on what is happening to Leigh post Project Runway go to previous interview here.

Bobby Flynn To Record A Covers Album
You can take the boy out of Australian Idol, but can you take Australian Idol out of the boy. Bobby Flynn has announced he will be working on a covers album to be released next year. If he rearranges covers like he did on Idol, I will willingly buy it.

Bobby's baby girl Indigo is now three months old. Very sweet.

Sonia Kruger Still Married
Apparently Sonia Kruger did not wear her wedding ring on Sunday night on Dancing With The Stars. This sent her fans into meltdown. Be reassured she is still married she just chose to wear costume jewellery on the night.

Gordon Ramsey to Open Restaurant in Melbourne.
Gordon Ramsey will open a restaurant called Maze in the Crown Casino complex in Melbourne. This is just one of the many restaurants he owns around the world. The opening is planned for the beginning of 2010.

Bogan's Wanted By Fat Pizza Creators For Reality TV Show.
News.com.au states that Fat Pizza creator Paul Fenech wants Bogans to audition for his new show which will be like Bogan Idol. The prize will be something better then a "Centrelink cheque". Sounds like it will be a show just making fun at people. Click the above link if interested.

Gordon Ramsey has been all over our TV's this year with Kitchen Nightmares, Boiling Point, Hell's Kitchen, and probably about five other shows I have forgotten about.

Currently on Lifestyle one of the series of Hell's Kitchen is screening. The premise of the show is two teams fight it out for kitchen supremacy and at the end of the series one of the cooks is the winner.

This show is not to be mistaken for the quality reality TV program Top Chef currently showing on Arena.

But Ramsey spends the whole of the show yelling at all the competitors, but you know that he has been told to be a total prick. It is like a boot camp sergeant in the kitchen. The diners in the restaurant must have to listen to his screaming all throughout dinner service. Even having to put up with that does not guarantee a meal as Gordon at any stage can just stop dinner service, all very dramatic.

Clearly he is just taking the money, as there is absolutely no substance to the show unless you consider debasing people is quality TV.

Has Channel Nine's magic rating bullet Gordon Ramsey suddenly imploded? The much trumpeted new series of Kitchen Nightmares USA appears to be tanking.

This was confirmed when Nine's boss, David Gyngell yanked Ramsey from the Monday timeslot after just the first program in the new series was shown. With just 732,000 viewers it will move from 8.30 Monday's to 10.00pm on a Wednesday.

Gyngell only has himself to blame for the Gordon fatigue that has suddenly struck viewers, as earlier this year everytime you switched to Channel 9 there would be his scowling face on the TV screen as they continually screened one of his many TV shows.

However Media Monkey in The Guardian has a different view blaming this viewer malaise on the Brits winning more gold medals at the Olympics then the Australians.

After being forced fed multiple episodes of Gordon Ramsey shows by Channel 9 over the past month, I have come to the conclusion that Gordon's appeal lies in his grumpy old man sexiness not his overly potty mouth.

Over the past few years there has been a growth in the grumpy older man on TV who appear to finding sex appeal status with the women viewers. Think Australian Idol judge Dicko now has two Facebook pages that are related to his sex appeal. The Ian 'Dicko' Dickinson Appreciation Society - a site dedicated to his hotness, and the Monty Bloggers That Lust After Dicko.

Also Simon Cowell from American Idol, and Nigel Lythgoe from the US version of So You Think You Can Dance -a reader posted on a blog post how she would be open to a little light fondling from the peroxide and tanned Nigel.

Why to women find the mean guys on TV attractive? Darryl Somers does not seem to attract these type of fans.

Unfortunately for Gordon his sex appeal rating has taken a slide since I saw the extremely contrived Hell's Kitchen. He must just be taking the money as it is so set up. Last week there was some controversy when he called a table of blond women bimbos. However to me it was all a bit scripted and boring.

It was disappointing as in his other show Kitchen Nightmares he appears to be more natural, obviously there are set up moments but it is not totally obvious.

I had always wondered how they found the restaurants that would want to be humiliated on world wide TV.

TV Week reveals that apparently bookings go through the roof after the shows have been aired. In Purnima's which was formerly Dillon's in New York had the worst kitchen and basement that Gordon had ever seen. It was stomach churning. Apparently they had an unmanageable amount of customers in the weeks after they screened and apparently some of the customers have stuck.

The article also reveals some of the mysteries about how come he always knows where to go to find the vermin or what dish to order.

They film for three days prior to him coming to get the feel of the place, and they also gather information for Gordon.

The restaurants are asked not to solve the problems prior to Gordon's arrival. Allan Love of Love's Fish Restaurant in Brighton said he had wanted to get rid of the French chef and they said 'Well you really shouldn't make any changes before he arrives. They wanted him to be there."

To get the restaurants they approached 20,000 in England, Scotland, and Wales with a letter saying "Are you in trouble?Would Gordon assist your restaurant?"

If you are wondering what happened to some of the restaurants from the series here are some updates on a few.

Sebastian's in The Burbank, California with the 'concept' menu. Sebastian the owner/chef who bought everything in for his food had dreams of a chain of restaurants. He has now sold up and is now opening two new ones.

Piccolo Teatro, the scottish run vegetarian restaurant in Paris. The restaurant closed on the episode and young chef India Innes was offered work experience in one of Gordon's London restaurants now has a permanent job with him.

Finn McCools the family run Irish restaurant in Westhampton New York. The son who was the chef had psychotic eyes. His father said the business went up by 37 per cent after Gordon made his changes. Most of the fried food has gone, and shepherd's pie is still on the menu, and the family members don't fight as much.

Momma Cherri's a soul-food restaurant in Brighton, England. It went into administration and closed, however the owner Charita Jones daughter, Kataryna, has since reopened it.