Gordon Ramsays Shy Moment with Marco Pierre White

has been revealed as a timid quiet man back when he was 's protegee at the start of his career. 

The restaurateur, 59, who is notoriously hot-headed, is seen standing quietly beside his mentor, 64, while making ravioli in a throwback clip. 

Gordon got his first big break in Marco's restaurant, Harveys, in Wandsworth, south west London, in the 1980s, where he was once said to have 'cried'. 

And in a video from the 1990s TV series, Marco, the fiery chef is worlds away from the persona for which he is now known. 

Marco is filmed carefully explaining the pasta making process with Gordon on hand to assist in the kitchen - doing as he is instructed and not saying a single word. 

Although he has Marco to thanks for his career, the duo's relationship was marked by a notorious, years-long feud involving intense professional rivalry and personal insults stemming from an incident at Marco's wedding in 2000.

Marco described Gordon's behaviour as 'unacceptable' when he filmed for his TV show during the event and vowed to never to speak to him again.

In an interview with The Telegraph in 2006, he said: 'I will never speak to him again. I gave him his first break in the business and I believe strongly in being loyal to people who have helped you. 

'Is that strange? I don’t believe it is. Several things happened that I found completely unacceptable.'

Meanwhile, Gordon once described his former boss as the living person he ‘dislikes the most’. 

So, it came as a surprise to see, on his new show, Being Gordon Ramsay, how after decades of denigrating him, he now has fond things to say about Marco, revering him – all of a sudden – as a father figure.

Extraordinarily, Daily Mail's Alison Boshoff has revealed this affection is very much reciprocated – so much so that after 30 years of war, peace has officially broken out between these two culinary titans.

Indeed Marco said last week in an exclusive interview, how he now ‘loves’ Gordon, whom he describes as a ‘beautiful’ man as he praised on his former protege for being ‘brave’ enough to take part in the new documentary. 

In fact, the Daily Mail can further exclusively reveal that, so deep is this new-found bond, the two former enemies have collaborated to drop a common old foe – and fellow chef – Jamie Oliver, from a future project they were all considering working on together.

Marco, the Enfant Terrible of the UK restaurant scene of the era, was known for his fiery temper and uncompromising standards that once reduced the tough guy apprentice to tears.

Marco had told The Telegraph: 'I yelled at him and he lost it. The next thing I knew he was sobbing in the corner, holding his head in his hands, with tears rolling down his cheeks.'

On his Netflix show, however, Gordon reflects warmly on those times, saying: ‘Marco was brutal in an incredible way. The hardest boss. When I started cooking, I didn’t have a father that “got” me and my career. I had a father that told me, you know, cooking was for women, it wasn’t a man’s job. 

'Then I got into a kitchen with the first British chef ever to win three [Michelin] stars, the most prolific chef in this country, Marco Pierre White and he was like in fact a father figure. He had this gift, this Picasso, he put food on a plate like no other.’

He added: ‘I was Marco’s right hand man. I went to hell and back every day for 18 hours a day six days a week. 

'But the skills I was learning was at a rate of knots. I became good very quickly and he brought that out of me.’

These are dramatically different terms from how Gordon used to talk about his old boss. He once described him as a ‘two faced’ bruiser, who was ‘so bitter’ about his former employee’s success.

He may have had a point: Marco infamously once posed on a magazine cover with a facsimile of Ramsay’s head on a platter and was quoted saying: ‘Everything Gordon does is contrived, unnatural, derivative.’

The insults continued: Gordon spoke about how Marco compared him to ‘dog ****’ when they got in each other’s way during one service at Harveys. 

He also recalled in his autobiography, how the torment once became so unbearable that one night he put his head in his hands and cried.

Marco later commented: ‘I didn’t make Gordon Ramsay cry. He made himself cry. That was his choice to cry.’

More fuel for the fire between them came in 1998 when Ramsay stole the reservations book from Chelsea’s Aubergine restaurant where he was head chef – a serious act of sabotage – and blamed Marco, who Gordon believed wanted to take his job at the Michelin-starred establishment.

Marco threatened legal action. Nine years later, Gordon admitted. ‘It was me. I nicked it. I blamed Marco because I knew that would f*** him.’