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Chef branded chatshow creep
CHEF Gordon Ramsay was under fire last night after film emerged of him groping an actress and talking dirty to her.
The clip shows Ramsay slapping the bum of Sofia Vergara on a US chat show.
Horrified fans branded the telly cook a creep after the crude innuendo-laden interview on The Tonight Show With Jay
Leno in 2010 flooded the web yesterday.
In the segment the Kitchen Nightmares star jokes that the 46-year-old Colombian beauty’s ample breasts could “knock her out” if she tried to run down the street.
At the beginning of the show, Sofia acted out a short sketch with host Jay Leno and Ramsay where she pretended to shout angrily in Spanish.
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After the presenter showed the audience a photo of the stunning brunette eating pizza on holiday, dad-of-four Ramsay told her: “You seem like you’re enjoying that... you have the whole wedge in your mouth at one time?”
When Sofia realised his comment was a
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He then described a delicacy of her home country as tasting like “s*** fudge” sparking further fury from the actress, who stars in US sitcom Modern Family.
She appeared to shout: “Ese tipo no respeta” which translates to: “This guy does not respect me.”
Finally, Gordon reached to touch her, prompting Sofia to yell: “No touching!”
A fan of the actress said the footage made for uncomfortable viewing after discovering it buried on YouTube.
The clip then sparked uproar across the net, with more than three million views worldwide.
One told Ramsay, whose wife of 23 years Tana is pregnant with their fifth child: “Just with Sophia saw the Vergara, clip from you 2010 are such “Too a creep. bad she didn’t slap you in face you CREEP! Talk to women like that?” Others lashed out at the “uncomfortable scene”. One viewer fumed: “Ooh! This is disappointing & awful. Sophia Vergara handled it as well as she could but Gordon Ramsay what were you thinking?” The Daily Star has approached Ramsay and Sofia’s representatives for comment. ruth.mckee@dailystar.co.uk