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Ramsay's kitchen payout
Ramsay's kitchen payout
Chef Gordon Ramsay has accepted a substantial damages payout after winning a libel case against the London Evening Standard. The £75,000 in damages was awarded over a claim that the TV programme Kitchen Nightmares cynically faked scenes to make average restaurants look like public health hazards. The shouty chef was at London's High Court for the settlement of his libel action over a November 2005 story in the newspaper. His solicitor, Keith Schilling, told Mr Justice Eady that it alleged that the show drove some restaurants out of business. It also alleged that the chef, together with Patricia Llewellyn, managing director of Optomen Television Ltd, and Optomen, were guilty of 'gastronomic mendacity'. The allegation suggested the TV company installed an incompetent chef and fabricated culinary disasters in order to wreck the reputation of Bonapartes restaurant in Silsden, West Yorkshire.
ITN | June 21, 2006
