Boiling mad! Outcry over work at Ramsay’s £4.4m holiday home
AS television’s most foul-mouthed chef, Gordon Ramsay is used to stirring things up.
But his latest spat has nothing to do with cooking – and this time he is the target of an angry outburst.
The Scot has started work on a holiday home in Rock, a resort on the north Cornish coast.
Residents were already upset about an influx of wealthy second home owners from London, accusing Ramsay and other outsiders of destroying their community.
The chef, who is worth around £38million, fought a long battle with neighbours before being granted permission to bulldoze a 1920s mansion he bought for £ . million and replace it with a five-bedroom house with two kitchens, plus a three-bedroom boathouse.
Work has begun on the project, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is expected to last months. Ramsay, 51, has meanwhile bought a £ million six-bedroom mansion in nearby Trebetherick as a ‘stopgap’ holiday home for himself, wife Tana,
3, and their children, Megan, 19, Jack, 18, Holly, 18, and Matilda, 16.
Anne Haynes, 60, who lived less than 50 yards from the building site, said: ‘It’s disgraceful and shouldn’t have been allowed. He could have just done a few modifications.’
Another resident, Ray Wall, 65, said: ‘It’s a lovely area and it’s been destroyed.’
A representative for Ramsay did not return requests for comment.