Why – with the birth of his sixth child – it’s time for Gordon Ramsay to give up the ‘tough guy’ act

Chef Gordon Ramsay.

Ryan Coogan
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I’m not a huge fan of Gordon Ramsay, but I see the appeal. He speaks his mind (or at least he does a good impression of a person who speaks their mind). He says the forbidden words, like “damn” and “bums”. He’s like Simon Cowell, but instead of crushing the dreams of people who can’t sing, he gets really, really angry about over-seasoned pasta. I get it.

He’s been around for a long time, but he’s made a name for himself in recent years as a real no-nonsense, cutthroat, man’s man sort of individual. He has a huge following online among the type of people who use words like “grindset”, and post black-and-white photos of men in cowboy hats on Instagram. He’s a paragon of masculinity for people who have a really one-dimensional idea of what it means to be masculine.