Gordon Ramsay is a notoriously famous chef with multiple competitive cooking shows.

Ramsay was born on November 6, 1966, in the United Kingdom. His career first began when he earned a vocational diploma from North Oxon Technical College in 1987. Shortly after, he moved to London to pursue his culinary skills at the restaurant Harvey’s.

Later, he went to France to prepare classic French cuisine before returning to London with advanced culinary skills.

In 1998, Ramsay opened his own restaurant, and it was soon named one of the best all around the world. In 1997, he served as a judge for a cooking show on television, but it wasn’t until Boiling Point (1999) and Beyond Boiling Point (2000) that he really stepped into television. In 1999, he opened Petrus, which gave him a Michelin star, and in 2001, he opened his first international restaurant, Verre, in Dubai, but that restaurant closed in 2011.

Ramsay’s experiences on television have made him an internationally-known chef, famous for his take-no-prisoners attitude with his contestants. He hosted an award-winning series called Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares in 2004, and he appeared in another TV series, Hell’s Kitchen, which began in 2007.

Both Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen had American versions but were discontinued in 2014. Other shows have come and gone with Ramsay at the helm, each one capitalizing on his abrasive, direct, and rude attitude toward the lower-level chefs, an attitude that the audience found it very funny.

According to Wikipedia, “since 1996, Ramsay has written 26 books. Ramsay also contributes a food-and-drink column in The Times’ Saturday magazine.”