Ramsay’s fury as father-in-law cooks up his ‘tell-all’ book
DON’T expect any sympathy from Gordon Ramsay over news that his father-in-law Chris Hutcheson has gone bankrupt – the chef is incensed that he’s publishing a tell-all-book about life with the star.
The pair were inseparable for 12 years while Chris managed Gordon Ramsay Holdings – but fell out spectacularly in 2010 when Gordon accused Chris of plundering £1.4million from his business.
At the time, Hutcheson called Ramsay a ‘monster’, adding: ‘I know where Gordon’s bodies are buried. Take me up on the Moors and I could show you where.’
Johnstone-born Ramsay hit back, calling his father-in-law a ‘dictator’, and talking of his ‘manipulation and controlling of so many lives’.
Now I can reveal that Hutcheson’s wife Greta has set up a company called Artafallie. It describes its business as ‘book publishing’, and sources tell me that a tome about Gordon will be its first project.
As a bankrupt, Hutcheson, who was jailed for six months last June for hacking Ramsay’s computer, is unable to start a company himself.
A source said: ‘The timing is significant now that Chris is out of prison and it makes sense for it to be under Greta’s name as if he profited from any book, he could be liable under law to pay some back to the Government for profiting from his crime.’
Ramsay, 51, is going to fight this hard but it will all be incredibly stressful for his wife Tana, 44, mother of his four children, who is caught in the middle. She famously once told a court that she had stopped speaking to her father over the original feud. The source said: ‘All Tana’s siblings have sided with their father. So there must be another side to all this – and it may be revealed in the book. If you think you’ve seen Gordon angry on TV, it’s nothing on his reaction to this.’
Hutcheson, 69, and wife Greta, 74, stayed together despite discovering that he had a secret second family with a mistress.
A spokesman for Ramsay said he was ‘aware’ of the book but would not elaborate on his reaction.