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Originally Posted by Charlatan
In the US version of Hell's Kitchen, Ramsay is just playing a caricature of himself from about 10 years ago.
If anyone has seen the ITV doc series called Boiling Point you can see him working in his kitchen back in 1998 or 99. He has all the tough language and gives a right bullocking to all his staff but he is nowhere near as mean and corse as he is on Hell's Kitchen.
It's almost a parody of himself, he's that over the top. But it makes for great TV.
I'd say that F Word and Kitchen Nightmares (at least the UK version) is much closer to what he's like.
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Agreed. I prefer the BBC Nightmares to the American one. For one thing, I prefer that Ramsay is the one narrating the BBC version. You can tell the reason that he does what he does is because he actually does CARE about food, not just because he is a dick who yells a lot. When he does yell, it's usually to someone who is too stubborn to listen to what he has to say. In the US version he just yells all the time.
That said I do love HK. To me it's okay that he is playing a character because it's a game show not a "reality" show.