The f Word: Series 4

Chef Gordon Ramsay returns for a new 12-part series of television's most entertaining food magazine. The action takes place in a working kitchen staffed by Gordon and his kitchen brigades - but this time his staff are celebrities with their friends and families. Each brigade will compete to be the best in creating a 3-course meal for 50 diners and if the diners do not like the food, they do not have to pay. The winning brigade will return at the end to cook three luxurious dishes.

The F Word format includes "Teach Gordon Ramsay a Lesson" in which the chef travels the world to search for ingredients and participate in some physically challenging cooking adventures. Also, "Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite" is the segment that proves we can all prepare fantastic home-made meals - delicious food that will not make us fat.

With celebrity guests Graham Norton, Geri Halliwell, Meat Loaf, Dannii Minogue, Emma Bunton, Tom Parker Bowles, Harry Enfield, Liam Gallagher and more...
Warning: This program contains strong language and some graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.

Episode 1
Coronation Street's Wendi Peters and her family face the white heat of the F Word kitchen, while Spice Girl Geri Halliwell challenges Gordon to beat her recipe for Spanish meatballs. BAFTA-winning Gavin & Stacey star James Corden bites off more than he can chew, and Gordon goes in search of the ultimate deep-sea delicacy, urchins.

Episode 2
News anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy and his family have to cook for fifty hungry diners, while morning show host Kate Garraway challenges Gordon to beat her recipe for bread and butter pudding. Janet Street-Porter continues her struggle to rear veal that will match Gordon's exacting standards, and Gordon takes his son, Jack, on a hunt for rabbits.

Episode 3
Boy band McFly face the music in Gordon's kitchen, while comedian Ben Miller goes head-to-head with Gordon in the recipe challenge with his version of the classic Victoria Sponge cake. Janet Street-Porter champions a new low-fat superfood, Ostrich, while Gordon attempts to get a fan of take-out ready to run a marathon by teaching him how to make a fantastic healthy home-made meal in new segment, Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite.

Episode 4
Nicole Appleton and Melanie Blatt and their mums cook a delicious starter of angel hair pasta & clams, spiced pork chops with crushed sweet potatoes and a classic apple tart, while Nicole's husband, Liam Gallagher, watches from the dining room. Member of the British Parliament, David Blunkett, takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge with his version of Shepherd's Pie, and in the Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite segment, Gordon is put through his paces by Marines, then shows them how to cook a fantastically healthy, low-calorie, and delicious beef curry. Gordon searches through the night for one of Britain's rarest and most delicious food delicacies, young eels, or elvers.

Episode 5
Comedian Paddy McGuinness and his family cook a delicious starter of scallops, quail's eggs and pea puree, a main course of escalope of chicken, sautéed potatoes and chard and a mouth-watering raspberry soufflé for dessert. Meanwhile, in Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite, Gordon teaches comedian Dara O'Briain how to cook a delicious and healthy prawn and crayfish pilaf, proving that low fat food doesn't need to be boring. Janet Street-Porter's veal calves undergo an important operation and singer Jamelia takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge with her Jamaican chicken soup. Gordon travels to America for an extraordinary food adventure spent catfish noodling-catching powerful, sharp-toothed catfish using nothing but his hands.

Episode 6
Neneh Cherry and her family cook smoked trout fillets, glazed beef with gremolata, and a delicious pear tatin. Gordon teaches British politician John Prescott how to cook mouth-watering fish cakes with anchovy dressing, proving that healthy food can satisfy even the biggest appetite. Extreme foodie Tom Parker Bowles visits Sardinia to track down one the world's most fascinating food delicacies. Gordon joins the US Army as they take on a ferocious enemy-wild hogs. And Dannii Minogue challenges Gordon with her vegetarian risotto.

Episode 7
Gordon takes his son Jack fishing in the Scottish Highlands and then gets the rest of the family to help turn an old Robin Reliant into a salmon smoker in his back garden. Janet Street-Porter decides whether or not to make her veal calves free range. In Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetitite, Gordon teaches a female fire fighter how to make a deliciously healthy beef burger with potato wedges and a beetroot relish. The one, the only, Meat Loaf takes on Gordon with his tuna bake. Plus actress Angela Griffin and her family cook stir-fried duck in lettuce cups, saffron bream and peppers, and summer berry mille feuille for the F Word diners-three simple and delicious recipes that everyone can enjoy at home.

Episode 8
Gordon goes shooting for pigeon and makes a delicious warm pigeon salad. Janet takes her veal calves to a country show. Tom Parker Bowles attempts to cook a whole pig, nose to tail, using every single part of the animal. In Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite, Gordon teaches a family with eight kids how to make food fun as well as delicious and healthy. TV host Edith Bowman takes Gordon on in the recipe challenge with her version of one of Scotland's greatest dishes-Haggis, while rapper Dizzee Rascal drops into the restaurant for dinner. Plus former rugby world champion Matt Dawson and his family help Gordon cook a fantastic glazed salmon with salad starter, a main course of gressingham duck, and a honeycomb dessert-three simple and delicious recipes everyone can cook and enjoy at home.

Episode 9
Gordon goes back to the floor, becoming a junior chef at a Chinese restaurant. He learns how to make one of the world's most ancient delicacies, Dim Sum. Janet's veal calves are living happily in her field in Yorkshire, but not all calves are so lucky-Janet reveals what can happen to some veal calves that are sent abroad. Comedian Jo Brand takes Gordon on in the recipe challenge with her vegetable curry while fellow comedian Harry Enfield drops into the restaurant for dinner. Plus Mica Paris and her family cook a delicious mackerel and warm potato salad starter, a pigeon casserole for main course, and a fantastic strawberry dessert.

Episode 10
Janet Street-Porter faces one of the most difficult moments of her life-her veal calves have had a very happy life in a field in Yorkshire, but now it's time for them to go to slaughter. Meanwhile, For Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite, Gordon visits London Zoo to find out why the animals are eating better than the humans. Jessica Hynes from Spaced challenges Gordon with her macaroni and cheese, and in the restaurant, the diners, who include comedian Rob Brydon, enjoy a delicious three course meal, cooked by actor Christopher Biggins and family, of pea soup, chicken stroganoff, and vanilla cheesecake.

Episode 11
Gordon meets model Erin O'Connor to find out what models really eat. Janet Street-Porter spit roasts one of the veal calves she has raised in a field near her home. Anchor Jon Snow takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge with his salmon fillet dish. In the restaurant, Spice Girl Emma Bunton and her family help Gordon cook three simple and tasty recipes everyone can cook and enjoy at home-a starter of gnocchi with peas and broad beans, a main course of Dover sole, and a delicious dessert of gooseberry and elderflower crumble. In Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite, Gordon teaches a group of London Underground emergency workers how to cook a delicious, low-fat breakfast.

Episode 12
The series draws to a close as Gordon goes "sky-fishing" for puffin off the cliffs of Iceland, and makes an emotional return to his old football club in Scotland to teach them how to cook delicious, healthy meals. He also travels to southern Spain to find out about one of the world's first organic caviar farms.

In the recipe challenge, Graham Norton and Gordon compete to have their roasted peach dish served to the diners for dessert. The winning kitchen brigade from the series return to cook three luxurious dishes that everyone can cook at home-a starter of lobster and caviar with new potatoes and a truffle mayonnaise, a main course of veal marsala with sautéed vegetables (made with meat from one of Janet's veal calves), and the winning dessert from Gordon's recipe challenge with Graham Norton.

"A phenomenon without limit" - Daily Mail

"An entirely decent human being." - Ottawa Citizen

Gordon Ramsay
(Chef)
Scottish by birth, Gordon was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, from the age of five. With an injury prematurely cutting short a promising career in professional football with the Glasgow Rangers, he went back to college to complete a course in hotel management.

Ramsay's first years in the kitchen were spent training under culinary luminaries such as Marco Pierre White and Albert Roux in London, after which he moved to France where he worked in the kitchens of Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon for three years where he was able to enhance his expertise in classic French cooking. In 1993, Gordon became chef of the newly opened Aubergine, within three years the restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars.

In 1998 at the age of 31, Gordon set up his first wholly owned restaurant, Gordon Ramsay, in London's Chelsea area. A year later he opened Pétrus with his protegé, Marcus Wareing, as Chef Patron in London's St. James's Street. Within seven months, it had won a Michelin star. That level of success followed him when, in October 2001, Gordon opened Gordon Ramsay in Claridge's, which gained a Michelin star in 2003. By 2003 Gordon's award-winning food was now being served in another famous London hotel, The Savoy. Set inside the art-deco splendor of the hotel, Banquette followed the earlier opening of The Savoy Grill, which also won Marcus Wareing a Michelin star in 2004.

May 2004 also saw Gordon Ramsay star in the Channel 4 series Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, later to be awarded a BAFTA and an International Emmy. Shortly after this, Gordon was given two weeks to direct a group of celebrities towards Michelin standard cooking in the ITV series Hell's Kitchen. 2005 confirmed Gordon as one of the UK's major television stars. A second series of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares was followed by the debut of Channel 4's The F-Word, a high-octane food show with cooking, food campaigns, and celebrity guests which remains one of Channel 4's highest rating shows. The third series of US Hell's Kitchen was named the top rated show of Summer 2007, and a few months later, the American version of Kitchen Nightmares made its successful debut.