{"id":300481,"date":"2026-02-24T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300481\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:06:07","slug":"gordon-ramsay-on-kicking-joan-collins-out-of-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300481\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Ramsay on Kicking Joan Collins Out of Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gordon_ramsay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Ramsay<\/a> is reliving a kitchen nightmare of his own.<\/p>\n<p>The Hell\u2019s Kitchen host revealed he once ejected a Hollywood legend from one of his world-renowned restaurants, though the slight wasn\u2019t meant to be personal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kicked out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/joan_collins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Joan Collins<\/a> by accident,\u201d he said during an appearance on the Feb. 20 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x9J-0Gp2Cqs?si=nEgHGmWmLGFRm3a_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Graham Norton Show<\/a> before host Graham Norton countered, \u201cWell, not quite by accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the restauranteur recalled that the Dynasty alum arrived with a food critic who had \u201cabsolutely panned\u201d his establishment months prior, leading to an awkward encounter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to this critic, \u2018Thanks, but no thanks,\u2019\u201d Gordon, 59, explained, \u201cbut Joan was his guest, and so she was furious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After noting that he has since apologized to Joan, 92, for the inadvertent snub, Gordon\u2014who shares kids Megan, 27, twins Holly and Jack, 26, Tilly, 24, Oscar, 6, and Jesse, 2, with wife Tana Ramsay\u2014admitted that he has complex feelings about food critics, especially in the social media era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gordon Ramsay is reliving a kitchen nightmare of his own. The Hell\u2019s Kitchen host revealed he once ejected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-300481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300481","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=300481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}