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If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.

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Gordon Ramsay
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 8
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