Gordon Ramsay has said he is "deeply mortified" by the highly public row over the insulting remarks he made about an Australian TV presenter, who had interviewed him.
The famously foul-mouthed chef got into trouble over the weekend after he suggested Tracy Grimshaw needed "to see Simon Cowell's botox doctor" in front of a large crowd at a Melbourne cooking expo.
He also showed a picture of a woman apparently naked on all fours with the face of a pig and said "that's Tracy Grimshaw". Reports further suggested he called her a lesbian, although he strenuously denied this.
It seems that the folks down under aren't as accepting of Ramsay's rants and his comments angered Australia's PM Kevin Rudd, who said the chef's remarks marked "a new form of low life".
Meanwhile, Grimshaw hit back at him, describing him as an "arrogant narcissist" and "a bully". She said: "Obviously Gordon thinks that any woman who doesn't find him attractive must be gay. For the record, I don't. And I'm not."
Ramsay apologised for the "stupid comments" but said he had only decided to do so after a phone call from his mother.
He said "she was disgusted and she wanted to know what actually happened" adding that her rebuke made him "start to get the picture".
Trust mother Ramsay to know best but what I want to know is where the image of a naked woman on all fours with a pig face came from in the first place? Did Ramsay photoshop it himself with the intention of making a bit of a misogynist joke? If this is the case then I'm afraid I'm with Rudd on this one.
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