Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Show is Chopped

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, huh?

The Scottish chef, who launched the show eight years ago under the premise of fixing failing restaurants, came off as an obnoxious bully and unrelenting prick.

And the true irony of Kitchen Nightmares is that over 60% of the restaurants Ramsay purported to fix have since gone out of business.

Ramsay even came to Austin for an episode with Greek restaurant El Greco. Here’s the rub: nothing short of a million bucks in hard cash could have saved El Greco. So Ramsay used the family’s constant bickering and financial problems as a hook and produced one of the most pathetic hours I’ve ever seen. It’s not surprising that the show actually aired six months after El Greco closed.

You know it’s a shame that the loss of Kitchen Nightmares will not sink Ramsay’s ship. But his many other franchises are apparently doing OK. He’s no longer a chef: just a preening reality TV ass much like his buddy Simon Cowell.