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Being Gordon Ramsay review – did we really need six hours of him setting up restaurants?

This six-part extended brand advert follows the TV chef’s attempt to launch numerous eateries under one roof. It’s a lot of restaurant drama to have in your life

Six hours of advertising yourself on Netflix and – presumably – getting paid for providing streamer content at the same time? Nice work if you can get it, and Gordon Ramsay has got it. Being Gordon Ramsay, a six part – six part – documentary, follows the chef ’n’ TV personality as he embarks on his most ambitious venture yet. It’s “A huge undertaking”, “high risk, high reward”, a “once in a lifetime opportunity” and “one of my final stakes in the ground … If it fails, I’m fucked.” It is opening seven billion (five, but it feels like seven billion) restaurants on the top floors of 22 Bishopsgate at once. There is going to be a 60-seat rooftop garden place with retractable roof, a 250-seater Asian-inflected restaurant called Lucky Cat, a Bread Street Kitchen brasserie and a culinary school.

Gordon Ramsay knows how to make great TV, but this Netflix series is beyond bland

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“Let’s go,” Gordon Ramsay urges everyone around him – including himself – throughout this documentary series. The British celebrity chef is on a six-month journey to open a massive food complex with five different restaurants atop the London skyscraper 22 Bishopsgate. Between work and family there’s no time to pause, no space for contemplation. It’s the same with this show, which dashes between household and building site, media work and family events. Much happens, but this expletive-laden narrative is rarely revealing. It lacks flavour.

Directed by Dionne Bromfield and produced by Studio Ramsay Global, the six episodes are crisply made and provide a crafted window into the “real Gordon Ramsay”. That infamous temper? Mellowed apparently, and besides, it was all conveniently in the service of achieving perfection. The show takes inspiration from a previous Netflix success, 2023’s Beckham, which used carefully regulated but nonetheless amusing banter between David and Victoria to create the illusion of insight. We’re in the age of the celebrity-controlled documentary.

Meet Gordon Ramsay's addict brother the TV chef feels deep-rooted 'guilt' over

Gordon Ramsay, 59, may be equally known for his successful culinary empire and his potty-mouthed tirades, but behind the scenes, the celebrity chef is a humble family man, sharing six children with wife Tana. In his new Netflix documentary, Being Gordon Ramsay, cameras follow him to launch his latest venture, restaurants at 22 Bishopsgate, but candid interviews also delve deep into his family relationships, including his troubled heroin addict brother.

 In Episode two of the documentary, Gordon was visibly emotional as he shared: "I have a brother who's a heroin addict, we shared a bunk bed, he's 15 months younger than me, and he's been an addict for the last four decades. I've gone to hell and back with him and so I have a guilt complex. That could have been me, it could have been switched." Speaking about his family, he said: "I've been dealt the dysfunctional card."

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