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Gordon Ramsay Claims Rival Tried to ‘Sabotage’ His Restaurant

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111914 GordonRamsey?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1416426078390 Justin Stephens / FOX(NEW YORK) — Gordon Ramsay is a celebrity chef known for holding nothing back on reality TV shows such as Kitchen Nightmares, but now the chef claims he was the victim of his own restaurant nightmare thanks to an unnamed rival.

Ramsay revealed on ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show that he believes a rival chef tried to spoil the opening of his newest London restaurant, Heddon Street Kitchen, by booking fake reservations.

“Well, Saturday was our first big day open and we had 140 on the books and we had a 100 no-show,” Ramsey told Ross.

When Ross asked if he thought it was deliberate, Ramsay replied, “Yeah, sabotage.”

The refusal by Ramsay, 48, to name which rival he thinks “sabotaged” his restaurant’s opening has led some skeptics to question his claim.

“This just wouldn’t happen,” Kit Kinsman, editor-in-chief of TastingTable.com, told ABC News. “Restaurants are in the habit of Googling their customers at this point, especially if they made online reservations, because they want to know who is coming into their restaurant.”

Ramsay, who has around 30 restaurants to his name, has previously accused rival Chef Marco Pierre White of stealing a reservation book from one of his restaurants in 1989, only to admit 10 years later that he faked the whole thing.

Despite the controversy, the launch for Heddon Street Kitchen was a success, a Ramsey spokesperson told ABC News.

“We were fortunate to have a large number of walk-ins … despite whatever someone’s intentions were,” the spokesperson said. “We had a terrific, packed launch.”


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