Rise of the Rockstar Chef

[48k]

Three one-hour episodes - "Fights, feuds and the pursuit of perfection. Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal ripped up the rulebook of fine dining - and put British cuisine on the map."

Clip from episode 3:
The reunion nobody saw coming - the three of them reunite for the first time and have lunch together and discuss their careers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5WcejDk7SQ

Programme on iPlayer:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0031nrc/ri...


I know Heston has not been well but he has aged massively and looks a bit shaky. Sad to see

[The Leaper]

I watched the first of the three programmes last night. Fabulous viewing and well told etc. I'll certainly be watching the final two episodes. I was aware how UK cuisine, expectations etc were so dramatically changed by White and Blumenthal, less so Ramsay.

Cleary, Ramsay is aging much better than White and Bluemental, both of whom looked well below par.

R.

[PhilAsia]

48k said:

Three one-hour episodes - "Fights, feuds and the pursuit of perfection. Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal ripped up the rulebook of fine dining - and put British cuisine on the map."

Clip from episode 3:
The reunion nobody saw coming - the three of them reunite for the first time and have lunch together and discuss their careers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5WcejDk7SQ

Programme on iPlayer:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0031nrc/ri...


I know Heston has not been well but he has aged massively and looks a bit shaky. Sad to see

That was quite sad. I enjoy putting food on the table, they made it sound like an agonising chore!

[dapprman]

Did think they were setting up for a Grodon-Marco fight.

On Heston - he suffered a major mental break down a number of years back (he is quite open about it), so bad it left him with a number of stroke like side effects including partial paralysis and a loss of speech. He had to re-learn how to talk. His move to France is part of his rehabilitation to keep him away from the labs and restaurant (I seem to remember).

[Mobile Chicane]

The Leaper said:

I watched the first of the three programmes last night. Fabulous viewing and well told etc. I'll certainly be watching the final two episodes. I was aware how UK cuisine, expectations etc were so dramatically changed by White and Blumenthal, less so Ramsay.

Cleary, Ramsay is aging much better than White and Bluemental, both of whom looked well below par.

R.

Gordon has had 'work done'. He had some fairly deep lines and acne scars filled in prior to Kitchen Nightmares USA, and I'll bet he's had other tweaks since.

[MattsCar]

It was a decent watch, rare these days to find something on terrestrial TV that isn't a rehash of things seen before and well produced.

Apparently, Marco refused to do the show if Jamie Oliver was on it and Ramsay probably wasn't against the decision

[The Gauge]

Did MPW have anything to do with Jamie Oliver’s success, or did their paths never cross?

[Mobile Chicane]

The Gauge said:

Did MPW have anything to do with Jamie Oliver s success, or did their paths never cross?

I doubt their paths ever crossed.

Jamie Oliver happened to look the part and was plucked from obscurity by a BBC TV producer. I remember The Naked Chef being talked about as a project in BBC circles well before Oliver's alleged 'discovery' at the River Café.

[autofocus]

MattsCar said:

Apparently, Marco refused to do the show if Jamie Oliver was on it and Ramsay probably wasn't against the decision

Hi,

Yes correct, I was with Marco a few months ago (as I’m
Involved with his Gin brand) around the time he was approached to do this programme and he flatly refused to do it if Jamie was involved.

Not because he has any animosity to Jamie from a personal point of view, but more to do with the fact Heston, Gordon and Marco have all held multiple Michelin stars where as Jamie has never received one.

He doesn’t class Jamie as a chef, more a cook.

Enjoyed the documentary and Marco certainly came across no different to how he is in real life.

Regards

Tim

[Melange]

Thoroughly enjoyed this little mini series, which surprised me as I find most of GR's TV stuff pretty unwatchable.

Definitely worth three hours of your time in my view.

[nordboy]

There's another thread already running on this, got most confused (doesn't take a lot tbh) when this one appeared with different comments?

I guess that's an issue when topics can be placed in different areas of the forum?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Sway]

Mobile Chicane said:

The Leaper said:

I watched the first of the three programmes last night. Fabulous viewing and well told etc. I'll certainly be watching the final two episodes. I was aware how UK cuisine, expectations etc were so dramatically changed by White and Blumenthal, less so Ramsay.

Cleary, Ramsay is aging much better than White and Bluemental, both of whom looked well below par.

R.

Gordon has had 'work done'. He had some fairly deep lines and acne scars filled in prior to Kitchen Nightmares USA, and I'll bet he's had other tweaks since.

Whilst I've no doubt Ramsey has had cosmetics done - he's also a massive fitness lover, which Marco clearly has never been! God only knows how many calories he'd consume per night of service with the constant tasting!

Heston used to be incredibly fit too, until his breakdown. Awful to see.

[PhilAsia]

Never liked Marco's persona, and this underlined and corroborated my initial thoughts... Horrible, self-absorbed tt.