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Gordon Ramsay tops the swear-o-meter

1704826 — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:19:00 GMT

Channel 4's potty-mouthed cook Gordon Ramsay has found himself in trouble with Ofcom for managing to get 115 versions of the f-word into the first 40 minutes of his 'Great British Nightmare' programme - that's nearly three a minute.

The broadcaster's defence is that its audience would have expected this. So that's alright then, although poor old Bill Grundy will presumably be spinning in his grave at the news.

I don't care either way but what I do worry about is that Channel 4 has now managed to destroy one of the remaining TV taboos and taken away the power of what was once an incredibly powerful word when used judiciously.

That leaves just one word left that has any power at all and I can think of plenty of people on television who suit it, including Ramsay himself.

When swearing on TV is appropriate

1704826 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:25:00 GMT

There are two TV series on at the moment and both are notable for the fact that they feature Scotsmen swearing profusely.

One features a multi-millionaire cook whose fortune has largely been accrued from the notoriety he has achieved from screeching profanities at people who are unable to cook a flan, amongst other things, to his liking.

The other is a powerful series featuring men from 5 Scots risking their lives on a daily basis, and for about 17k a year, in order to fulfil the will of the UK government, whose role is to protect our interests abroad.

One is on a public service broadcaster, which is currently waving the begging bowl for public funding; the other is on a relatively low-rent pure entertainment channel.

I can only guess that the two people who commissioned these shows were job-swapping that day.

Little - fraking - Gordon Part 3

255762 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:27:00 GMT

This time it is school dinners as Little Gordon, the foul mouth child playing celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay junior, returns in a third viral video for online recruitment website Caterer.com.

Set in a dreary school dining hall our little Gordon Ramsay having dressed down his mother in the first video and a local chef in the second it is the school dinner lady who gets it this time in the Rebel Virals produced video.