From insulting professional rivals such as Jamie Oliver to contestants on his TV shows – and even a female presenter – Ramsay is no stranger to commenting on someone else's weight.
THE AUSSIE TV HOST WHO IS 'A PIG'
In 2009 Ramsay made the mistake of aiming misogynistic insults at Australian television host Tracy Grimshaw.
Speaking at the Melbourne Good Food and Wine show, he showed a doctored picture of a naked woman, with multiple breasts and a pig's face, announcing that it depicted Miss Grimshaw, who had interviewed him the previous night.
'That's Tracy Grimshaw,' he said. 'I had an interview with her yesterday, holy crap. She needs to see Simon Cowell's Botox doctor.'
Both the prime minister and deputy prime minister of Australia criticised him. Ramsay then appeared on TV to make a long apology, saying: 'It was never a personal attack. It was done in a jokey fashion. I had my mum phone up this morning, she was disgusted. If someone had called my wife a pig I would have punched their lights out.'
THE 'FAT COW' RESTAURANT
In 2012 Ramsay opened a restaurant in LA called The Fat Cow. His PR team rather unconvincingly tried to deny that it was an insult, saying: 'The cow is something we eat all the time, but don't appreciate, so the title of the restaurant is just a nod to that.'
Only a few months earlier, Ramsay had called Hell's Kitchen contestant Sara Horowitz a 'fat cow' on camera. He also called her a 'fat-mouthed stupid little b****'.
THE SCARRED CHEFS
In 2012 on season ten of Hell's Kitchen, where chefs line up to be verbally abused by him, he told contestant Clemenza Caserta that his chef's whites 'look like a tepee', adding that they were so capacious that he could use them as a sail to cross the Atlantic.
At another point during the show, Ramsay called him a 'f****** baby rhino'.
Other contestants have been called a 'chunky monkey', a 'big fat sack of p*** and wind' and a 'fat, useless sack of Yankee, Dankey, doodle sh***'.
THE 'FAT IDIOT' ON KITCHEN NIGHTMARES
Ramsay was invited to try to save The Granary restaurant in Fareham, Hampshire, in 2007.
