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Gordon Ramsay is a softy at home
Though he’s known for his bluster in the kitchen, chef Gordon Ramsay says he’s not really the tyrant he seems on TV when he’s home with his wife, Tana.
“I have an amazing wife and four children you know. I don’t act or perform like that when things go wrong with a Sunday lunch at home — when Tana’s roast potatoes are stuck to the tray or the Yorkshire puddings haven’t risen. I get a little bit impatient sometimes when I’m watching Tana, you know, chop a shallot,” he admits.
“Of course, I want to jump in there and do it myself because I’m starving, and I want to move things on a little bit quicker.
“So we don’t have appetizers, entrees and desserts in our house. We have one course, and dessert is a treat, and going out is special. So, no, there’s two sides to Gordon Ramsay,” he said.
Two sides? Ramsay amends that a little. “Yes, I am a hard ass, driven, self-confessed perfectionist, but in a domestic scene, I want to have excitement with that journey as well.”
Tubi is offering 300 hours of the grumpy chef with his shows, “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Kitchen Nightmares” and “The F Word.” Along with those, Tubi has begun streaming seasons one and two of “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back.”
Grammy-winning soul singer Betty Wright dies:
Betty Wright, 66, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included “Clean Up Woman” and “Where is the Love,” died at her home in Miami Sunday, several media outlets reported. Steve Greenberg of S-Curve Records told the New York Times Wright had been diagnosed with cancer in the fall. Wright had her breakthrough with 1971’s “Clean Up Woman,” which combined elements of funk, soul and R&B. The song would be a top 10 hit on both the Billboard R&B and pop charts, and its familiar grooves would be used and reused in the sampling era of future decades. With members of K.C.
Wright and the Sunshine
Band, she co-wrote her 1975 hit, “Where is the Love,” which would win her a Grammy for best
R&B song.
Fall TV preview:
“The Masked Singer,” an artificial-intelligence thriller and a prime-time soap opera starring Kim Cattrall will be part of Fox’s fall lineup, the network said Monday as it unveiled its schedule amid the pandemic’s disruption of the TV industry. Cattrall’s “Filthy Rich,” about a Southern family’s inheritance fight, and the AI drama “neXt” starring John Slattery were to have bowed this spring and had each completed 10 episodes. Fox’s fall schedule also will include “L.A.’s Finest,” the Gabrielle Union-Jessica Alba police drama that originated on cable, and the third installment of “Cosmos” hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
May 12 birthdays:
Composer Burt Bacharach is 92. Singer Steve Winwood is 72. Singer Kix Brooks is 65. Actor Emilio Estevez is 58. Actress April Grace is 58. TV personality Carla Hall is 56. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 54. Actress Kim Fields is 51. Actor Jason Biggs is 42. Actor Rami Malik is 39. Actress Emily VanCamp is 34.