Gordon Ramsays Family Feud and Hurtful Wedding Speech

He's known for his fiery temper and constant swearing on shows like Hell's Kitchen - so it wouldn't be a stretch to assume  isn't an easy person to get on with. 

And over the years the TV chef has clashed with numerous people close to him including his dad, brother and even his father-in-law.

Finding himself a central figure in the ongoing bitter family feud between son-in-law and his mother Caroline, Gordon hasn't shied away from taking a swipe at the swimmer's family. 

Now Gordon's family relationships have hit headlines after the release of the chef's new series Being Gordon Ramsay. 

Speaking candidly about his father and his alcoholism, Gordon described their relationship as 'torrid' before also opening up about his 'guilt ridden' feelings towards his younger brother Ronnie who has battled drug addiction. 

The star revealed that he strives to be as supportive as he can to his six children – Megan, 27, twins Holly and Jack, 26, Tilly, 24, Oscar, six, and Jesse, two – because of the difficult childhood he had with his alcoholic father Gordon.

He said: 'I, sadly, had a torrid relationship with my father. 

'My father called me a snob once. And I said, "No, definitely not a snob. I just want to get out of the s*** mess I was born in."'

Tana added: 'It's fair to say you weren't his favourite son. He used to say things to you that he'd knew you'd rebel against.' 

Gordon remembers weekends when he would watch his dad 'ruin his life through alcohol'.

The Kitchen Nightmares presenter said: 'It's hard, isn't it, when someone's an alcoholic? It's very hard to relate to that, because you're just... you're nervous.

'You're worried about, you know, hitting the end of the bottle and seeing that bottle of Bacardi disappear, because you know what happens at the end of that.'

Gordon also hinted at tensions between the pair as he admitted that despite his tremendous success his parents never sat down to eat in one of his restaurants, 'Dad would bever have felt comfortable in that scenario.' 

He recalled: 'We went for breakfast together and there was this full English Breakfast with fried bread and I said to the guy in the cafe "Can I just have some toast please?" and dad said "See you have gone all f*****g posh. You've forgotten your upbringing".

'If I tried to show him what I'd learned or what I'd done, it was just over his head and sadly a year later he died of a heart attack. 

'So yeah never once sat down at a table and I never had the chance to turn around and say "That's my dad". But that's life.' 

As well as his dad the chef has also had a broken relationship with his brother Ronnie and said he struggles with a 'guilt complex' after watching him battle heroin addiction for much of his adult life. 

The celebrity chef shared a bedroom with Ronnie, 58, during an itinerant childhood that saw them .' 

While Gordon achieved his dreams, Ronnie succumbed to the ravages of drug addiction and a lifelong  dependency on heroin.

Reflecting on his fractious relationship with his younger brother in the second episode, he said:  '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.

He added: 'I've been dealt the dysfunctional card.'

Speaking to Spencer Matthews in the Big Fish podcast in 2023, Ramsay said he was determined to reach the top of his profession without turning to substance abuse.

He said: 'Growing up in multiple s**tholes, you get one's s**t together early. I just wanted to better myself and get out of a situation that was unfortunate. I had grown up on 15 council estates.

'There's always a nerve-wracking moment when you go to another school, another football club. Having to make mates again sometimes twice in one year.

'That's incredibly disruptive. I set out to change and give my family the security and everything that I had wished for at their age. I never expected that level of success, like any success it's worked for.'

Ramsay credited his mother, a former nurse, for being the biggest inspiration in his life as she juggled three jobs to keep the family afloat.

'The first ambition when I got successful was to give mum her own house, her own garage and a car,' he said. 'It's a big thing for a son to look after their mum. she went to hell and back to look after us.'

He added: 'The flipside to my success is my brother's addiction to heroin. It's bizarre isn't it?

'You grow up on several council estates, you're sharing this tiny bedroom and you're in bunk beds. You're so close as brothers, we're 14 months apart so much has changed dramatically.'

He adds: 'I have that reminder on a daily basis how different it could have been if I'd gone down a different road and felt the country owed me something rather than fighting for something.'

But the acrimonious relationships hasn't just existed with Gordon's blood relatives. 

The star fell out with Tana's dad, Chris in 2010, and the family was torn apart in a bitter row. 

Chris, now 75, was jailed in 2017 after he was convicted of hacking Ramsay’s computer system following his sacking during an acrimonious public dispute. 

The intrusion was discovered by an expert employed by Gordon. The court heard the computers at his businesses were hacked nearly 2,000 times. 

The hacking took place after they fell out in 2010, when, after 12 years as Gordon's business partner, Chris was removed as a director and shareholder of Gordon Ramsay Holdings Ltd.

Gordon accused him of stealing £1.4 million and a public spat ensued. The following year, lawyers for Gordon won a High Court ruling allowing Chris' computer to be searched.

It later emerged that Chris, a married father of four, had concealed a second family. 

He had secretly fathered two more children by his mistress, who lived in a house a few miles from where he brought up Tana and his three other children.

Gordon paid £2 million in a 2012 legal settlement to cut all professional ties, and the row led to Tana severing contact with her family.

Her brothers, Adam Hutcheson  and Chris Hutcheson Junior were handed four-month suspended sentences for conspiracy. 

Speaking in court at the time, Tana called the fight 'extremely distressing' and said that her 'dominant' father had 'systematically defrauded' the chef during his time as chief executive of Gordon Ramsay Holdings.

However, the family have since managed to forgive Chris, healing the acrimonious rift which cast a giant shadow over her life.

In an interview with The Mail On Sunday back in 2018, when asked if she was in touch with her dad, Tana said: ‘Oh yes, absolutely.’

She added that her father, who has just turned 70, had even become something of a role model, having embarked on a fitness drive. ‘He has just had a hip replacement and has been on this health regime,’ she said. 

‘He’s lost a stone in three weeks and ran his 90th marathon in April with three of his grandchildren and one of his sons. I’d like to aspire to that.’

Yet while he has patched things up with Tana's side of the family, Gordon has been fully engulfed in the Peaty family feud.

While Adam and Holly said 'I do' at Bath Abbey in December, the happy day was dampened by a devastating family feud that saw Adam's mother Caroline disinvited from the wedding and his sister Bethany the only relative in attendance. 

The Olympian's estranged family reportedly branded TV chef Gordon a 'bully' after he claimed their fallout with the swimmer was 'self-inflicted'.

Gordon told the Daily Mail that he and his wife Tana had 'done nothing wrong' and despite reports suggesting otherwise had treated the Peaty family 'like royalty'.  

And in the new documentary on Wednesday Gordon appeared to take another swipe at the Peatys as he emphasised the importance of creating family ahead of his daughter's marriage. 

He said: 'The most important family is the one you create and she comes from an incredible family so its now her time to create her own family. It is quite a moment.' 

It was previously revealed how Caroline, 60, would still feature in the new series of Being Gordon Ramsay despite formally requesting to be edited out from the final cut.

A source close to Caroline previously revealed she had written to Netflix producers to say she was not asked for her consent to be filmed for Gordon's show, and given what had happened, did not want to feature. 

And while she isn't shown face on, the shot captures one of her final sweet moments with her daughter-in-law to be before it all turned desperately sour. 

Addressing the room in his speech Gordon began: 'I couldn't be happier to welcome Adam and George into the Ramsay family. Are you mad?

'Holly is everything you want in an amazing woman and if this is just a little insight into how cool your lives are going to be forward on behalf of Tana and I and the entire Ramsay family we wish you all the best and we couldn't be prouder.' 

And any hopes of a reconciliation also haven't been helped by Gordon's constant swipes after his wedding speech hit headlines back in January.

The Sun reported that in his father of the bride speech he commented on how beautiful Holly looked and told Adam he was a 'lucky man', adding: 'Look at Tana and that's what you have to look forward to.' 

The publication went on to claim that Gordon couldn't resist a sly dig at Adam's absent parents he told his daughter Holly: 'Shame you don't have the same.'

It was later was revealed that Adam's estranged mother had been left 'outraged' and 'hurt' that Gordon referred to their bitter family feud in his explosive father of the bride speech.

A family source previously told the Daily Mail Caroline was left horrified by the moment in the speech and believes the celebrity chef had 'pre planned' the cruel swipe against her, calling it 'cruel' and 'very hurtful'.

But Gordon doubled down on his speech as he appeared alongside This Morning hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley, insisting that what he had to say at the wedding reception was 'perfect and warm'.

Gordon said: 'It’s tough, honestly. Being the dad with three daughters, you dream of that moment and that moment arrives and you’re just like a hot mess.

'But, the speech was perfect, it went well and you’ve got to find that… You’ve got to be warm, emotional… It’s a tough gig.'

Holly also defended her father's speech despite Caroline's outrage, saying she felt 'overwhelmed with happiness' during it.

In an interview with British Vogue, Holly shared a photo of herself and Adam smiling and laughing during Gordon's speech.

'Listening to dad's speech, looking around the room and feeling overwhelmed with the love and the happiness on our guests' faces,' she said.

In another jibe at the estranged Peaty family, Holly revealed that her parents paid for her and Adam's luxurious Honeymoon to Mauritius, saying it was their 'wedding present'.

She added: 'We're going to Mauritius to just lie by the sea – that was our wedding present from my parents. I had to tell Adam we weren't basing our honeymoon around a 25-metre pool…'

On Wednesday after the release of the new documentary, Caroline shared a new post about 'children being loved without expectation'.

Following the show's release, Caroline has taken to social media to share a post which said: 'Parents often focus on growth, correction and outcomes. Grandparents focus on being.

'No grades, no pressure, no fixing. A study showed children with active grandparents show higher emotional security scores by age 10.

'When a child is loved without expectation, self-worth becomes internal, not negotiated.'