I had not been able to stomach more than a few shows of “Hell’s Kitchen” – despite loving all kinds of cookery shows. And that’s because I couldn’t take the sight of all those poor chefs cowering as chef Gordon Ramsay lashed out at them. I never could figure out whether that was an act put up for the show or the guy really has only mean bones in his body.

So when I read today about how he is forced to restructure his restaurants as the gourmet diners have tightened their purse strings, there was only one thought uppermost in my mind – how the mighty fall!