Ramsey believes in the importance of self-discipline.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe older you get in this industry, you feel the downside of not getting the balance right.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can get sucked in, it gets too much and it destroys you, so I\u2019ve always kept that incredible discipline of having a foot in each camp. I have to find time and space to balance out and recalibrate.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Gordon thinks the demands of modern diners make the industry much harder than it used to be.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201c[I get] incredibly p***** off with the boring philosophers who go, \u2018Well in my day it was much harder\u2019. No, it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cCoeliacs, dietary requirements \u2026 there\u2019s so many demands now from customers; we were never faced with that kind of complication 20 to 30 years ago\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the summer, the 59-year-old star revealed he had undergone surgery to have a cancerous growth removed from his face, but he has now admitted he only spoke out to put paid to any speculation he\u2019d had a facelift.<\/p>\n
Praised for sharing the photo of himself with a plaster on his jawline to raise awareness, he admitted that hadn\u2019t been his intention, but he simply wanted to avoid the sort of scrutiny Simon Cowell has faced over his appearance.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThat f****** plaster was the size of a book cover, so I had to come clean.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gordon noted the incident \u201cwas a scare\u201d but is grateful it was \u201cdealt with immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ramsey believes in the importance of self-discipline. He said: \u201cThe older you get in this industry, you feel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115,3623,169,50605,51700,89297,156,8272,31442,4522,2082,40370,11676,20866,13840,89296,111,139,69,7014,39535,22049,25278,1324,684,14047],"class_list":["post-128923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-calls","tag-celebrity","tag-chef","tag-creating","tag-dieting","tag-diners","tag-entertainment","tag-f","tag-fat","tag-feel","tag-for","tag-gordon","tag-hell","tag-insisted","tag-like","tag-menus","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ozempic","tag-ramsay","tag-rejects","tag-smaller","tag-stop","tag-there","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}