14 DAY TRIAL // Gordon Ramsay is not one to be messed with, as some of his apprentices may have learned on his many competitive cooking television shows. Aside from being known for his propensity for certain words that begin with an F, Ramsay was also famous, until not long ago, for his deep wrinkles and his obstinacy not to do anything about them. Until he sat down for a talk with Simon Cowell, he says for the Daily Mail.
It’s a known fact that Cowell, judge on X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and American Idol, is a fan of Botox, even saying once that he saw getting fillers as common as brushing his teeth. So it’s no wonder that, when he met Ramsay and got to see the legendary wrinkles in person, he suggested to the chef he should consider doing something about them. Yet that wasn’t everything that convinced him to have the procedure done, since waking up one morning to find his own children making fun of him also worked wonders in this sense.
“I’ve got four children, and they’ve become ‘Dad, why have you got so many wrinkles on your face when Clementine’s daddy has no wrinkles?’ The lines were pretty horrific, like Scarface, and I was never embarrassed by it but my children helped me become more paranoid about it. You’ve seen the articles: craggy face, map of Wales, ugly, deflated rugby ball. There’s only so much [expletive] you want to take. I woke up in the morning and Matilda [his daughter] was trying to squeeze pound coins in there,” Ramsay says for the Mail.
As if that wasn’t enough, the chef also had a few very unpleasant experiences while in Los Angeles, with a few makeup artists thinking he had been in a car crash and one even asking him when he’d been thrown through the windshield. All these added up to convince him that he had to do something about the creases in his beard and forehead. However, he says, no one noticed anything until he spoke first of having work done.
“I listened to what Simon Cowell said, and he said, ‘Get it done, it’ll make you look more…’ It took four minutes each side, lasered not Botoxed. No one noticed until I mentioned it. When you don’t say anything you’re classified as a liar, so you can’t win. It’s got me more [expletive] in the past six months… Am I going to have any more work done? Of course I’m not going to have any more [expletive] work done,” Ramsay says. The reason he stops here, he further explains, is because the guy who worked on him the first time said he would never again touch that forehead.