Marco Pierre White - The Lord of the Chefs Marco Pierre White 0 Comments Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, celebrity, restaurateur and television personality. White left Allerton High School in Leeds without any qualifications and decided to train as a chef, initially at Hotel St. George in Harrogate and then at the Box Tree in Ilkley. Aged 16, he went to London with “£7.36, a box of books and a bag of clothes”, and began his classical training as a commis with Albert and Michel Roux at Le Gavroche. During this time, Albert Roux described White as “my little bunny”. He continued his training under Pierre Koffman at La Tante Claire (now the site of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay), moving to work in the kitchen of Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir (where he worked alongside, amongst others, Heston Blumenthal), and Nico Ladenis of Chez Nico at Ninety Park Lane. He then branched out on his own, working in the kitchen at the Six Bells public house in the Kings Road with assistant Mario Batali.

In 1987, White opened Harvey’s in Wandsworth Common, London (now the site of Chez Bruce), where he won his first Michelin star almost immediately and was awarded his second in 1988. He later become chef-patron of The Restaurant Marco Pierre White in the dining room at the former Hyde Park Hotel, now Mandarin Oriental (where he won the third Michelin star), and then moved to the Oak Room at the Le Méridien Piccadilly Hotel. By the age of 33, Marco Pierre White had become the first British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars (the three chefs who had previously won three stars while cooking in the UK, the aforementioned Roux brothers and Pierre Koffman, were all French). At 33 he was also one of the youngest chefs to win three stars (the record was then held by Heinz Winkler, who achieved the feat at 32, and as of now is held by Massimiliano Alajmo, who did so at 28).

During these years White had working for him Gordon Ramsay, Philip Howard (The Square), Stephen Terry, Eric Chavot (The Capital), Bryn Williams (Odette’s), Matt Tebbutt (The Foxhunter), Donovan Cooke (Est est est) James Stocks and in front of house Max (Mark) Palmer, one of the few English maître d’s of a Michelin three-star, Claude Douart, Philippe Messy (youngest sommelier to gain three Michelin stars) and Chris Jones, unusual in being an English sommelier in a two-star Michelin French restaurant at the age of 21. Although White worked for 17 years to pursue his ambition, he ultimately found that, in spite of his accomplishments, recognition and fame, his career did not provide him with adequate returns in his personal life. So, in 1999 he retired and returned his Michelin stars. “I was being judged by people who had less knowledge than me, so what was it truly worth? I gave Michelin inspectors too much respect, and I belittled myself.

I had three options: I could be a prisoner of my world and continue to work six days a week, I could live a lie and charge high prices and not be behind the stove or I could give my stars back, spend time with my children and re-invent myself.” During his early career in the kitchen, White regularly ejected patrons from his restaurants if he took offence at their comments. When a customer asked if he could have a side order of chips with his lunch, White hand-cut and personally cooked the chips, but charged the customer £25 for his time. A young chef at Harveys, who once complained of heat in the kitchen, had the back of his chef’s jacket and trousers cut open by White wielding a sharp paring knife. Marco is seen in UK adverts for Knorr stock cubes and stock pots, a Unilever brand.

In answer to criticisms that he’d “sold himself out as a chef” by acting as a brand ambassador for such products he said, “by working with companies like Knorr it allows me to stand onto a bigger stage and enrich people’s lives… Michelin stars, they’re my past.” White announced his retirement from the kitchen in 1999 and cooked his final meal for a paying customer on 23 December at the Oak Room. After his retirement he became a restaurateur. Together with Jimmy Lahoud, he set up White Star Line Ltd which they operated together for several years before ending their partnership in 2007. In 2008, White opened the MPW Steak & Alehouse with James Robertson in the Square Mile in London. As co-owners, since 2010 they have also operated the Kings Road Steakhouse & Grill in Chelsea. James Robertson had worked for White as a maître d’, between 1999 and 2003. Since May 2016 the two restaurants have become the London Steakhouse Co, a successful partnership and are, as of May 2016, the only restaurants worldwide that Marco is a major shareholder in.

The London Steakhouse Co is operated and managed day to day by James Robertson. “Marco Pierre White – Steakhouse Bar & Grill” and “Marco’s New York Italian by Marco Pierre White” are franchised brands operated by third parties which have outlets in various hotels throughout the UK. White had a stake in the Yew Tree Inn, a 17th-century dining pub near Highclere in Hampshire, although following an acrimonious falling out with his business partners the pub was sold. This was the setting for much of “Marco’s Great British Feast,” screened on ITV in the summer of 2008. In January 2009, it was reported that White was to charge £5 for a pint of real ale at the venue, making the Yew Tree “one of the most expensive places to drink British real ale in the country”. White was quoted saying “Most pubs undercharge. You’re not just paying for beer, you’re paying for the place you drink it in and the people who serve it.” White is the dining consultant to the cruise line P&O Cruises.

The cruise ship MS Ventura, which was launched in April 2008, has on board a fine-dining Mediterranean restaurant, called the White Room. White has published several books, including an influential cookbook White Heat, an autobiography called White Slave (entitled The Devil in the Kitchen in North America and in the paperback version), and Wild Food from Land and Sea. Marco Pierre White - 必应 Sign in Marco Pierre White Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, celebrity, restaurateur and television personality. He is noted for his contributions to contemporary British cuisine. White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef, and the enfant terrible of the UK restaurant scene. He was called the godfather of modern cooking by Australian MasterChef (Season 4, Episode 53). White was, at the time, the youngest chef ever to have been awarded three Michelin stars. He has trained chefs including Gordon Ramsay , Curtis Stone and Shannon Bennett. 人物介绍！ 答 Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is an English chef and restaurateur. He is recognised by patrons and peers alike for having provided a highly creative and innovative impetus into ...

Marco Pierre White Career White left Allerton High School in Leeds without any qualifications and decided to train as a chef, initially at Hotel Metropole under Head Chef Bryan Chegwin and then at the Box Tree in Ilkley. Aged 16, he went to London with "£7.36, a box of books and a bag of clothes", and began his classical training as a commis with Albert and Michel Roux at Le Gavroche. During this time, Albert Roux described White as "my little bunny". He continued his training under Pierre Koffman at La Tante Claire (now the site of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay), moving to work in the kitchen of Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir (where he worked alongside, amongst others, Heston Blumenthal), and Nico Ladenis of Chez Nico at Ninety Park Lane. He then branched out on his own, working in the kitchen at the Six Bells public house in the Kings Road with assistant Mario Batali.

In 1987, White opened Harvey's in Wandsworth Common, London (now the site of Chez Bruce), where he won his first Michelin star almost immediately and was awarded his second in 1988. He later become chef-patron of The Restaurant Marco Pierre White in the dining room at the former Hyde Park Hotel, now Mandarin Oriental (where he won the third Michelin star), and then moved to the Oak Room at the Le Méridien Piccadilly Hotel. By the age of 33, Marco Pierre White had become the first British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars (the three chefs who had previously won three stars while cooking in the UK, the aforementioned Roux brothers and Pierre Koffman, were all French). At 33 he was also one of the youngest chefs to win three stars (the record was then held by Heinz Winkler, who achieved the feat at 32, and as of 2013 is held by Massimiliano Alajmo, who did so at 28).

During these years White had working for him Gordon Ramsay, Philip Howard (The Square), Stephen Terry, Eric Chavot (The Capital), Bryn Williams (Odette's), Matt Tebbutt (The Foxhunter), Donovan Cooke (Est est est) James Stocks and in front of house Max (Mark) Palmer, one of the few English maître d's of a Michelin three-star, Claude Douart, Philippe Messy (youngest sommelier to gain three Michelin stars) and Chris Jones, unusual in being an English sommelier in a two-star Michelin French restaurant at the age of 21.[citation needed] Although White worked for 17 years to pursue his ambition, he ultimately found that, in spite of his accomplishments, recognition and fame, his career did not provide him with adequate returns in his personal life. So, in 1999 he retired and returned his Michelin stars. "I was being judged by people who had less knowledge than me, so what was it truly worth? I gave Michelin inspectors too much respect, and I belittled myself.

I had three options: I could be a prisoner of my world and continue to work six days a week, I could live a lie and charge high prices and not be behind the stove or I could give my stars back, spend time with my children and re-invent myself." During his early career in the kitchen, White regularly ejected patrons from his restaurants if he took offence at their comments. When a customer asked if he could have a side order of chips with his lunch, White hand-cut and personally cooked the chips, but charged the customer £25 for his time. A young chef at Harveys, who once complained of heat in the kitchen, had the back of his chef's jacket and trousers cut open by White wielding a sharp paring knife. Marco is seen in UK adverts for Knorr stock cubes and stock pots, a Unilever brand. In answer to criticisms that he'd "sold himself out as a chef" by acting as a brand ambassador for such products he said, "by working with companies like Knorr it allows me to stand onto a bigger stage and enrich people's lives...

Michelin stars, they're my past." Retirement White announced his retirement from the kitchen in 1999 and cooked his final meal for a paying customer on 23 December at the Oak Room. After his retirement he became a restaurateur. Together with Jimmy Lahoud, he set up White Star Line Ltd which they operated together for several years before ending their partnership in 2007. In 2008, White opened the MPW Steak & Alehouse with James Robertson in the Square Mile in London. As co-owners, since 2010 they have also operated the Kings Road Steakhouse & Grill in Chelsea. James Robertson had worked for White as a maître d', between 1999 and 2003.

The two restaurants have become the London Steakhouse Co, a successful partnership and are as of Jan 2015 the only restaurants worldwide that Marco is a major shareholder in.[citation needed] The London Steakhouse Co is operated and managed day to day by James Robertson and Marco Pierre White.[citation needed] "Marco Pierre White - Steakhouse Bar & Grill" and "Marco's New York Italian by Marco Pierre White" are franchised brands operated by third parties which have outlets in various hotels throughout the UK.[citation needed] White had a stake in the Yew Tree Inn, a 17th-century dining pub near Highclere in Hampshire, although following an acrimonious falling out with his business partners the pub was sold. This was the setting for much of "Marco's Great British Feast," screened on ITV in the summer of 2008. In January 2009, it was reported that White was to charge £5 for a pint of real ale at the venue, making the Yew Tree "one of the most expensive places to drink British real ale in the country". White was quoted saying "Most pubs undercharge.

You're not just paying for beer, you're paying for the place you drink it in and the people who serve it." White is the dining consultant to the cruise line P&O Cruises. The cruise ship MS Ventura, which was launched in April 2008, has on board a fine-dining Mediterranean restaurant, called the White Room.[citation needed] White has published several books, including an influential cookbook White Heat, an autobiography called White Slave (entitled The Devil in the Kitchen in North America and in the paperback version), and Wild Food from Land and Sea. Hell's Kitchen In September 2007, White was the Head Chef in ITV's Hell's Kitchen television series. At one ed point during the series, controversy ensued when White said, "I don't think it was a pikey's picnic tonight." The remark prompted criticism from the Commission for Racial Equality. However, the show was defended by an ITV spokesman, who indicated that warnings about its content were given before transmission, and that White's comment had been challenged by one of the contestants, Lee Ryan. The book accompanying the show, Marco Pierre White in Hell's Kitchen, was published on 23 August 2007 by Ebury Press.

White returned to ITV's screens to present the 4th series of Hell's Kitchen in 2009. Other TV work The Chopping Block On 18 March 2008, it was announced that White would be the host of an American version of the Australian cooking competition series The Chopping Block. The series, produced by Granada America, the production company behind the American version of Hell's Kitchen, aired on NBC in March 2009 but was pulled after three episodes due to low ratings. After a three-month hiatus, 'Chopping Block' returned to complete its season. MasterChef Australia On 7 July 2011, White was a guest judge on Masterchef Australia mentoring the cooks in an elimination round. On 15 June 2014, White began a week-long appearance on Masterchef Australia presiding over a mystery box challenge, an invention test and a pressure test. Celebrity Big Brother 2011 On 27 August 2011, White was a houseguest on the UK version of Celebrity Big Brother to set a cooking task.

Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars In 2012, White fronted a new show for Channel 5 called Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars. It saw the UK's best restaurant partnerships balance food with front of house service, fighting for a place in a specially designed studio restaurant, where the top couples are each given their own kitchen and set of diners to impress. It received mostly positive reviews from critics. MasterChef Australia: The Professionals 2013 White is a principal judge in this competition between professional chefs, which started 20 January 2013. White co-hosts the show with regular MasterChef Australia host Matt Preston. MasterChef South Africa On 11 December 2014, White appeared on the South African version of MasterChef which aired on M-Net. He had a cook-along in the final challenge in the finals between Siphokazi and Roxi. MasterChef New Zealand On 6 September 2015, White appeared on the New Zealand version of MasterChef which aired on TV3 (New Zealand). He was the Head Chef/Mentor of a team challenge consisting of the final 8. Marco Pierre White Personal life White has been married three times.

His first wife was Alex McArthur, who was the daughter of a surgeon from Buckinghamshire, and who worked at his local fishmonger. After a year-long romance, they were married at Chelsea Register Office on 8 June 1988; neither family attended the ceremony. White then met 21-year-old model Lisa Butcher at a London nightclub. They were engaged within three weeks. White says today that he was so intoxicated by her looks that he forgot to think about her personality. Engaged for two months, Butcher sold the wedding in a £20,000 deal to Hello! magazine. The wedding took place at the Brompton Oratory on 15 August 1992, where Albert Roux was best man, and the couple forgot to invite the groom's father and brothers to the ceremony. White says he knew the marriage was a mistake when he saw her £3,000 floor-length, backless Bruce Oldfield dress with cutaway sides. White told a reporter that she looked dressed to go down the catwalk rather than the aisle. Butcher says of their 15-week marriage: "We went to the Scilly Isles for our honeymoon.

On the first day, Marco turned to me and said, 'I don't love you.' We spent two miserable days when we didn't speak and he went shark fishing. Then I left." In her one interview about the marriage, Butcher has hinted that something unspeakable happened on the honeymoon: "Something very bad did happen but I'm not going to say what it was. It really wasn't a very pleasant experience for me and my family." In 1992, White started a relationship with Matilde "Mati" Conejero, the bartender at The Canteen. and went on to have two sons: Luciano (born December 1993), Marco Jr. (born May 24, 1995), and a daughter, Mirabelle (born 2001), born after White retired and the couple had married at the Belvedere on 7 April 2000. At the wedding, Gordon Ramsay turned up with a TV crew (who were filming for Ramsay's Beyond Boiling Point) having told neither White nor his bride. White and Ramsay have not spoken since.

After White became friends with city financier Robin Saunders, Conejero wrongly suspected an affair between the two. White and his wife had a fight, after which White spent 14 hours in the cells of Notting Hill police station in January 2005. White and Conejero began divorce proceedings in 2007 after she confronted two of his waitresses over affairs and his close relationship with singer/actress Martine McCutcheon. In 2011 the divorce proceedings were withdrawn.[citation needed] In October 2012 White and Conejero separated again. White has a Japanese assistant and chauffeur called Mr Ishii, whom he met while he managed the Mirabelle restaurant in Curzon Street, Mayfair. The restaurant became available for sale and was quite sought-after, but his relationship with Mr Ishii persuaded the Japanese owners to sell to White. In his leisure time White may be found freshwater fishing and deer stalking. White is a supporter of the Conservative Party and Manchester City Football Club. Marco Pierre White References ^ "Marco Pierre White's wife scrawled insults in blood on wall of chef's home". London: Telegraph. 5 October 2012.

Retrieved 17 November 2012. ^ a b c d e f Johnson, Richard (5 August 2007). "White Heat". The Times (London). Retrieved 14 February 2011. ^ Radio Times, London, 1–7 September 2007. ^ Ramsay, Gordon (2006). Humble Pie. UK: HarperCollins. ISBN0-00-722967-4. ^ Raphael Brion (2012-12-01). "Heston Blumenthal Rejects the Claim He Trained Under Marco Pierre White - Feuds". Eater National. Retrieved 2014-06-21. ^ Lynn Barber (interviewer) (21 October 2007). "What's Eating Marco? (Observer Food Monthly interview)". The Observer (London). Retrieved 6 August 2011. ^ a b Mark Lewi (25 April 2007). "Marco Pierre White on why he's back behind the stove for TV's Hell's Kitchen". Caterer and Hotelkeeper (London).

Retrieved 26 April 2007. ^ a b Euan Ferguson (interviewer) (21 April 2001). "Marco: Man and Boy". The Observer (London). Retrieved 21 February 2007. ^ Bill Buford (2006). Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. New York: Knopf. p.95. ISBN978-1-4000-4120-6. ^ "Marco Pierre White: I've had to evolve". BigHospitality.co.uk. Retrieved 6 July 2011. ^ "Marco Pierre White Profile". Caterer & Hotelkeeper (London). September 2006. ^ MPW Steak & Alehouse ^ Kings Road Steakhouse & Grill ^ London Steakhouse Co ^ Nick Wyke (27 January 2009). "The £5 pint has arrived". The Times (London). Retrieved 8 February 2009. ^ "Marco Pierre White pulls in £5 a pint". Daily Mirror (London).

28 January 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2009. ^ Marco Pierre White (2007). The Devil in the Kitchen. London: Orion. ISBN978-0-7528-8161-4. ^ "Hell's Kitchen is back!", My Park Magazine. ^ Alex Fletcher (8 September 2007). "Hell's Kitchen hit by racism row just work=Digital Spy". ^ "NBC Puts Chefs on Chopping Block". zap2it.com. 18 March 2008. ^ "The Chopping Block: NBC Cancels Reality TV Show After Three Episodes". TV Series Finale. 27 March 2009. Archived from the original on 31 March 2009. ^ a b "MasterChef Australia" Marco Pierre White Challenge (TV Episode 2011) - IMDb ^ "MasterChef Australia" Episode #6.29 (TV Episode 2014) - IMDb ^ "Celebrity Big Brother Marco Pierre White sets cooking task" Digital Spy 27 August 2011. ^ "Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars". Channel 5.

Retrieved 17 November 2012. ^ Sam Wollaston (21 June 2012). "TV review: Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars; Dead Boss". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 17 November 2012. ^ Tom Sutcliffe (22 July 2012). "Last Night's Viewing: Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars, Channel 5, The Men Who Made Us Fat". London: The Independent. Retrieved 17 November 2012. ^ MasterChef Australia - Network Ten ^ David Knox (15 January 2013). "The Greatest Show on Earth". TV Tonight. Retrieved 21 January 2013. ^ a b Mark Palmer (29 July 2006). "Marco Pierre White: I will never speak to Gordon Ramsay again". The Daily Telegraph (London). ^ a b Alison Boshoff (30 June 2006). "Is Marco's marriage finally cooked?", Daily Mail (London). ^ a b Marco Pierre White (30 July 2006). "Mati: the wife I pushed over the edge".

30 July 2006, The Daily Telegraph (London). ^ "Marco Pierre White's wife admits smashing up his Range Rover and scrawling graffiti in her BLOOD on the walls of his London home". Dailymail.co.uk. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012. ^ "Political advantages to celebrity backing?", politics.co.uk, 26 May 2004. ^ Chef Marco Pierre White is a lifelong City fan - Manchester Evening News Marco Pierre White (Chef) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Marco Pierre White Male Born Dec 11, 1961 Marco Pierre White is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur and television personality. He is noted for his contributions to contemporary international cuisine, and his exceptional culinary skills. White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef, the enfant terrible of the UK restaurant scene and the Godfather of modern cooking. White was, at the time, the youngest chef ever to have been awarded three Michelin stars.

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TWENTIES 1987 25 Years Old In 1987, White opened Harvey's in Wandsworth Common, London, where he won his first Michelin star almost immediately and was awarded his second in 1988. … Read More He later become chef-patron of The Restaurant Marco Pierre White in the dining room at the former Hyde Park Hotel, where he won the third Michelin star), and then moved to the Oak Room at the Le MÃ©ridien Piccadilly Hotel.<br /><br /> By the age of 33, Marco Pierre White had become the first British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars. At 33 he was one of the youngest chefs to win three stars.<br /><br /> Although White worked for 17 years to pursue his ambition, he ultimately found that, in spite of his accomplishments, recognition and fame, his career did not provide him with adequate returns in his personal life. Read Less 1988 26 Years Old White has been married three times. His first wife was Alex McArthur, who was the daughter of a surgeon from Buckinghamshire, and who worked at his local fishmonger.

They were married at Chelsea Register Office on 8 June 1988. 1990 28 Years Old He has a daughter Letitia, from the 2 year marriage, which ended in 1990. White then met 21-year-old model Lisa Butcher at a London nightclub. They were engaged within three weeks. Engaged for two months, Butcher sold the wedding in a Â£20,000 deal to Hello! magazine. The wedding took place at the Brompton Oratory on 15 August 1992. … Read More White says he knew the marriage was a mistake when he saw her Â£3,000 floor-length, backless Bruce Oldfield dress with cutaway sides. Read Less THIRTIES 1992 30 Years Old In 1992, White began a relationship with Matilde Conejero, the bartender at The Canteen. and went on to have two sons. The couple married at the Belvedere on 7 April 2000. … Read More After White became friends with city financier Robin Saunders, Conejero wrongly suspected an affair between the two.

White and his wife had a fight, after which White spent 14 hours in the cells of Notting Hill police station in January 2005. Read Less Show Less So, in 1999 he retired and returned his Michelin stars. … Read More During his early career in the kitchen, White regularly ejected patrons from his restaurants if he took offence at their comments.<br /><br /> When a customer asked if he could have a side order of chips with his lunch, White hand-cut and personally cooked the chips, but charged the customer Â£25 for his time. A young chef at Harveys, who once complained of heat in the kitchen, had the back of his chef's jacket and trousers cut open by White wielding a sharp paring knife.<br /><br /> Marco is seen in UK adverts for Knorr stock cubes and stock pots, a Unilever brand. In answer to criticisms that he'd "sold himself out as a chef" by acting as a brand ambassador for such products he said, "by working with companies like Knorr it allows me to stand onto a bigger stage and enrich people's lives...

Michelin stars, they're my past." Read Less White announced his retirement from the kitchen in 1999 and cooked his final meal for a paying customer on 23 December at the Oak Room. … Read More After his retirement he became a restaurateur. Together with Jimmy Lahoud, he set up White Star Line Ltd which they operated together for several years before ending their partnership in 2007.<br /><br /> In 2008, White opened the MPW Steak & Alehouse with James Robertson in the Square Mile in London. As co-owners, since 2010 they have also operated the Kings Road Steakhouse & Grill in Chelsea. Read Less James Robertson had worked for White as a maÃ®tre d', between 1999 and 2003. … Read More Since May 2016 the two restaurants have become the London Steakhouse Co, a successful partnership and are, as of May 2016, the only restaurants worldwide in which White is a major shareholder.

"Marco Pierre White - Steakhouse Bar & Grill" and "Marco's New York Italian by Marco Pierre White" are franchised brands operated by third parties which have outlets in various hotels throughout the UK.<br /><br /> White had a stake in the Yew Tree Inn, a 17th-century dining pub near Highclere in Hampshire, although following an acrimonious falling out with his business partners the pub was sold. This was the setting for much of "Marco's Great British Feast," screened on ITV in the summer of 2008. In January 2009, it was reported that White was to charge Â£5 for a pint of real ale at the venue, making the Yew Tree "one of the most expensive places to drink British real ale in the country". White was quoted saying "Most pubs undercharge. You're not just paying for beer, you're paying for the place you drink it in and the people who serve it." Read Less FORTIES Show Less MasterChef Australia On 7 July 2011, White was a guest judge on Masterchef Australia mentoring the cooks in an elimination round.

… Read More On 15 June 2014, White began a week-long appearance on Masterchef Australia presiding over a mystery box challenge, an invention test and a pressure test. Read Less Celebrity Big Brother 2011 On 27 August 2011, White was a houseguest on the UK version of Celebrity Big Brother to set a cooking task. In 2011 the divorce proceedings were withdrawn but in October 2012 White and Conejero separated again. … Read More White is a supporter of the Conservative Party. and Manchester City Football Club. Read Less FIFTIES 2012 50 Years Old Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars In 2012, White fronted a new show for Channel 5 called Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars. … Read More It saw the UK's best restaurant partnerships balance food with front of house service, fighting for a place in a specially designed studio restaurant, where the top couples are each given their own kitchen and set of diners to impress. It received mostly positive reviews from critics.

Read Less 2013 51 Years Old MasterChef Australia: The Professionals 2013 White is a principal judge in this competition between professional chefs, which started 20 January 2013. … Read More White co-hosts the show with regular MasterChef Australia host Matt Preston. Read Less 2014 52 Years Old MasterChef South Africa On 11 December 2014, White appeared on the South African version of MasterChef which aired on M-Net. Gordon Ramsay | Biography, News and Photos | Contactmusic.com News Pictures Film Footage Comments Quotes RSS Biography Gordon Ramsey (born 8.11.1966) Gordon Ramsey is a TV chef who, at one time, held three highly coveted Michelin stars - one of only three chefs in the UK to do so. Childhood: Gordon Ramsey's father had a number of professions, including being a welder, a swimming pool manager and a singer. Because of these constant career changes, the Ramsey family moved around a lot. They eventually settled in Stratford-Upon-Avon in the late 1970s.

Gordon moved out of home at 16 and shared a council flat with his sister in Banbury. Ramsey was a talented footballer and in 1984, he was offered a trial with Rangers FC. However, he damaged his knee badly in the training session and never recovered from the injury. At the age of 19, Ramsey focused his attentions on cooking and attended a local college course to study Hotel Management. Culinary Career: Ramsey started out working as a commis chef at the Wroxton House Hotel, progressing to kitchen and dining room manager. He later moved to London where he worked for Marco Pierre White at Harveys. After two years, Ramsey decided he had had enough of White's notorious verbal abuse and started to study French cuisine. He worked for Albert Roux in Mayfair at Le Gavroche., then accepted Roux's offer to work at Hotel Diva in the French Alps. He worked in France for a further three years before working as a personal chef on the 'Idlewild' yacht in Bermuda. Ramsey returned to the UK in 1993 and worked as head chef at La Tante Claire in Chelsea, London.

He then became business partners with Marco Pierre White and was head chef at Aubergine, which was awarded two Michelin stars. Ramsey's own restaurant, Gordon Ramsey at Royal Hospital Road was opened in 1998, with the help of his father in law, Chris Hutcheson. In 2001, the restaurant was awarded its first Michelin star. Ramsey also opened Petrus, where it has been reported that a group of six bankers once spent £44,000 on wine in a single sitting. He then opened Amaryllis in Glasgow, though that later closed, as well as Gordon Ramsey at Claridges. He then opened restaurants at the Dubai Creek and Connaught Hotels. Ramsey's empire has expanded overseas and he now owns Verre in Dubai as well as Gordon Ramsey at Conrad Tokyo and Cerise in Japan and Gordon Ramsey at the London, in New York. His first Irish restaurant, Gordon Ramsey at Powerscourt, opened in 2007. In 2006, Gordon Ramsey was awarded an OBE for 'services to the hospitality industry'.

TV Career: Gordon Ramsey's debut TV venture came in 1998, with the fly-on-the-wall kitchen documentary Boiling Point. This was followed up two years later with Beyond Boiling Point. In 2004, the first series of Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares was aired on Channel 4. The premise of the show was that he would work with ailing restaurants in order to turn their fortunes around. Several series were made, with the fifth being aired in 2007. ITV1 then aired Hell's Kitchen, the reality cookery show, helmed by Ramsey, which showed him training 10 celebrities to be professional chefs, running a restaurant on Brick Lane which was open to the public for the duration of the show. An American version of the show was made by the FOX network and shown in 2005. Hell's Kitchen has become notorious for Ramsey's fiery temperament and foul language. Also in 2005, Ramsey hosted The F-Word, a food-centered magazine programme featuring competitions, investigative reports and recipes. Channel 4 have signed Ramsey to an exclusive deal that runs until 2011.

In September 2005, Ramsay appeared on the CNN show Quest, hosted by Richard Quest. Heston Blumenthal and Jamie Oliver also appeared on the same show. Personal Life: Gordon Ramsey married Cayetana Hutcheson (better known as Tana) in 1996. They have four children together. In November 2008, the News of the World tabloid paper published a story in which Sarah Symonds claimed to have been having an affair with Gordon Ramsay for up to 10 years. Biography by Contactmusic.com

Question: Which British television chef was reported as saying ‘Michelin Stars, they’re my past’?
Answer: Marco Pierre White