Friday Flashback: Tracy Grimshaw responds to Gordon Ramsay

Back in 2009 Gordon Ramsay was recorded making derogatory comments about Tracy Grimshaw during a Food & Wine Show, which led to Nine CEO David Gyngell reportedly telling him he went too far.

Even Prime Minister Rudd and Ramsay’s own mother urged him to issue an apology.

With press coverage whipping it into a storm, Grimshaw saved her right of reply for an A Current Affair editorial.

“I have no idea what prompted his outburst,” she said, “which continued yesterday and again today.

“We’ve not spoken and I have not responded until now.”

She continued, “I’ve played along with him in interviews because it’s entertaining and that’s my job. But I walk away afterwards and I don’t think about him again.”

Grimshaw said she had espected a request to not interview Ramsay about his private life.

“But it appears with Ramsay respect is a one way street.”

In the end the celebrity chef was forced to eat humble pie.

“Tracy, where do I start? You’ve shown me great respect,” he said. “An amazing support over the last three or four years. And I”d just like to take this opportunity for the stupid comments, and…deeply mortified that the whole thing has gone this far. My apologies.”

In timing nobody could have forseen, next year Gordon Ramsay is back on Nine, while Tracy Grimshaw is having a year off.