Future Food Stars episode 1: Gordon Ramsay searches for the UK’s most exciting new food and drink business, putting 12 entrepreneurs through a series of challenges as they compete to win his £150,000 investment. Tonight, Gordon invites his entrepreneurs to Cornwall, where he shocks them with a high-pressure individual challenge in which they must overcome their fears and put their faith in him.
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Gordon also wants to see how they work in a team using the finest local produce, so challenges them to run food shacks on a beach. It might sound simple, but how will they cope when hundreds of hungry tourists descend on Newquay? The teams must show that they can meet Gordon’s exacting standards and scrutiny. Will they thrive under pressure or crumble as the orders come flooding in? Then, in the biggest test of all, they come face-to face with Gordon. There’s nowhere to hide as he grills them on their performance this week. Only the ones who impress will continue on this epic adventure.
If MasterChef isn’t enough culinary content for all you foodies out there, then you’re in luck – Gordon Ramsay is returning to our screens with a brand new competition: Future Food Stars. The upcoming series will see 12 food and drink entrepreneurs compete in various challenges in a bid to win a huge investment in their business from Ramsay.
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Gordon James Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer. His global restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 16 Michelin stars overall; it currently holds a total of seven. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the United Kingdom.
Ramsay’s television appearances are defined by his bluntness, fiery temper, strict demeanour, and frequent use of profanity. He combines activities in the television, film, hospitality, and food industries, and has promoted and hired various chefs who have apprenticed under his wing. He is known for presenting television programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell’s Kitchen (2004), Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (2004–2009, 2014), and The F Word (2005–2010), with the latter winning the 2005 BAFTA Award for Best Feature, and the American versions of Hell’s Kitchen (2005–present), Kitchen Nightmares (2007–2014), MasterChef (2010–present), and MasterChef Junior (2013–present), as well as Hotel Hell (2012–2016), Gordon Behind Bars (2012), Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back (2018–2020), and Next Level Chef (2022–present).
Ramsay was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 New Year Honours list for services to the hospitality industry. In July 2006, he won the Catey Award for Independent Restaurateur of the Year, becoming only the third person to have won three Catey Awards. In 2020, Forbes listed his earnings at US$70 million for the previous 12 months and ranked him at No. 19 on its list of the highest-earning celebrities.
