Ramsay snaps up Matt Hancock lover Gina’s former family home
THE set for Gordon Ramsay’s new ‘toughest cooking competition ever’, Next Level Chef on ITV, looks like a dank, multistorey car park. When the fiery Glaswegian finishes work, he prefers somewhere much more inviting.
I can reveal that the pottymouthed cook, 56, has just spent millions on a five- bedroom Edwardian house in one of London’s most desirable areas.
He and his wife, Tana, 48, are understood to have bought the property from Gina Coladangelo and her estranged husband, Oliver Tress, the founder of upmarket homeware and clothing chain Oliver Bonas.
Gina, 45, left Tress, with whom she has three children, for former health secretary Matt Hancock, 44, who competed in I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! ‘Ramsay’s been spotted round there, measuring up,’ one of his new neighbours in South-West London tells me.
The house was not known to be on the market and the price has not been disclosed. Zoopla puts its value at up to £4.75 million.
Tress and Gina paid £3.8 million for it in 2015.
A similar property in the same street, with a 90ft garden, is currently on the market for £4 million. The TV chef is understood to have paid cash.
Ramsay, who has an estimated fortune of £175 million, already owns a huge house, said to be worth £ 7 million, less than a mile away.
His spokesman declines to comment but he may have bought the house because of extensive works currently being undertaken at his other London pad.
Last year, he, Tana and their five children were reported to have temporarily moved out after work began on a super-basement.
The couple also own holiday homes in California and Cornwall, where, at one point, they had three properties.