Gordon Ramsay is apparently at work on yet another TV show — this time for the UK’s Channel 4 — and he claims that Costa Rican shark-hunting gangs interfered with his filming by pouring gasoline on him and holding him at gunpoint.
Ramsay told a newspaper: “It’s a multi-billion dollar industry, completely unregulated. We traced some of the biggest culprits to Costa Rica. These gangs operate from places like forts, with barbed wire and gun towers.
“At one point, I managed to shake off the people keeping us away, ran up some stairs to a rooftop and looked down to see thousands of fins, drying on rooftops as far as the eye could see. When I got back downstairs, they tipped a barrel of petrol over me.”
He added: “Back at the wharf, there were people pointing rifles at us to stop us filming. A van pulled up and these seedy characters made us stand against a wall. The police came and advised us to leave the country. They said, ‘If you set one foot in there, they’ll shoot you.’” [The Sun]
Seeing as how this comes from a fame-whoring TV personality as reported by a British tabloid, I’m sure this fantastic story is all 100% true. Isn’t that right, Mr. Ramsay?
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Hit his restaurant in West LA – fucking delicious.
I want to make love to that title.
I would watch the shit out of a show about shark-hunting pirates.
Hold on, dude – did they pour gasoline or petrol on him? Huge difference.
*receives fine for smoking a fag on the lift*
@ Enrico – I would also watch a show about people pulling guns on Gordon Ramsay and dousing him in flammable liquids.
Now we need a pirate shark.
Ramsay’s Best Restaurant, his new show on BBCA is good, check it out if you like Ramsay or food tv on TUES. at 6p or 9p.
“Now we need a pirate shark.”
I think you just pitched SyFy their next movie.
PIRATESHARKTOPUS!
“Now we need a pirate shark.”
And me without my Photoshop. Curse you, paying job!
Here I had a pic of Jabberjaw with an eye patch but no place to upload it (that I can access from work). Oh well. Photoshopping is a young man’s game.
I live in Costa Rica and if you replace “These gangs operate from places like forts, with barbed wire and gun towers.”
with
“These gangs operate from places like falling apart chicken takeouts, with broken wooden fences and a cracked out window in their abuela’s house they could shoot from if they had guns, but they don’t because they’d rather drink Guarro and watch Toros”
then I would 100% believe it.
Also, no way a Tico throws away perfectly good gas. Ever.
A Nica, on the other hand…
I read the headline and at first I was all like, “Gordon Ramsay has a Co-Star?”
But then I read a little closer and I was all like, “ohhh…Costa Rican shark pirates…yeah, that makes much more sense”
i ´m from CR and i can tell you that this never happened, i dont know why is he saying this but noon, of the team saw the attack