As we all well know, Gordon Ramsay is a stickler for the rules both professionally and personally.

We’ve watched him kindly tell contestants on Hell’s Kitchen to ‘f*** off’ for disobeying them and heard all about the strict standards his six kids have to live up to, so we are all aware we need to be on our best behaviour around this bloke.

But even those who enforce the regulations break the rules sometimes… as although he’s a hilarious potty-mouthed chef, he’s human too.

Gordon Ramsay broke his own Hell’s Kitchen rules in one episode (Fox)

Carol Scott from the fifth season of his hit series Hell’s Kitchen might disagree with that, though.

The sous chef, from Knoxville, Tennessee, holds the unfortunate title of being one of the few people who have forced Ramsay to go against his own decree after she made a ‘dangerous’ mistake while feeling the heat in the kitchen.

She was one of the contestants on the high-stakes show in November 2007 and is sadly remembered for all the wrong reasons, rather than her cooking skills.

Fans of the show will remember how Scott got the boot from Hell’s Kitchen in the ninth episode, despite being on the winning team and it going against Ramsay’s own rulebook.

Much to the surprise of her fellow contestants, the celebrity restaurateur, 57, decided to eliminate her from the competition even though she should have been safe due to the red team’s success.

The reactions in the room were pretty hilarious to look back on – as the competitors awkwardly watched on as Ramsay brutally told her she was being sent home as he felt as though she had ‘given up’.

“Jacket off – and you’re leaving Hell’s Kitchen,” he said.

“You didn’t even make a comeback. After the dauphinoise potatoes were screwed, you gave up.”

Yes, you read that right – it was ‘crunchy’ gratin dauphinoise which caused Ramsay to crack and rip up the Hell’s Kitchen rulebook. But to be fair, she did make a mess of them.

Carol’s gratin dauphinoise didn’t go to plan (Fox)

At the dinner service, she had brought the dish she was in charge of up to the pass, only for Ramsay to smash them off the side and into the bin as he yelled: “Why are the potatoes crunchy?!”

Scott fessed up to her mistake but insisted she had no idea ‘why they didn’t cook correctly’, so she started to make a new batch of the gratin dauphinoise before gingerly telling Ramsay it would take about ten minutes.

A tip for anyone working under him – never say that.

He laid into her for delaying customers’ meals, before branding her ‘useless’ when she revealed she had cooked the spuds in boiling cream for an hour during prep.

Scott then sealed her fate when she poured even more cream on her second batch – which Ramsay caught wind of.

Carol Scott is the contestant who’s ‘crunchy’ gratin dauphinoise got Ramsay to crack (Fox)

While pouring her sloppy spuds in the bin, he yelled: “My God. Oh Jesus! Are you mad? I wouldn’t even serve that to a pig farm madam.

“Forget it. You don’t care do you, because if you did care you wouldn’t serve me that crap!”

Somehow though, Scott’s team still won the dinner service thanks to their 54 percent rating over the blue team’s 39 percent – but it still wasn’t enough to save her after the gratin dauphinoise scandal.

And that, people, is how you get Ramsay to be a rule-breaker. Make an absolute cock up of some fancy potatoes.

To be fair, eating undercooked ones can be quite dangerous – as according to Medicine.Net, as they contain proteins and compounds such as lectins, solanine and starch, they can leave you experiencing nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

And we can’t be having that in Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant, can we?

Gordon Ramsay explained the ‘red flag’ you need to be aware of when choosing what meal to tuck into at a restaurant.

Going out for food can be an expensive business so you absolutely don’t want to experience that disappointment when you make the wrong decision and end up having forked out a fortune on something rubbish.

But luckily, the chef and restaurant extraordinaire has a pretty good idea of how these things work – even if we weren’t that impressed by some of his own offerings.

Now, we’ve all walked past our fair share of establishments that boast to have the ‘best in the country’ of something, or perhaps ‘world’s best’ at some brave spots.

Gordon Ramsay doesn’t mince his words (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

And sure, while that might be true at the odd spot, plenty of us are left suspicious by these claims, just as Ramsay suggests we should be.

The Hell’s Kitchen star told Town and Country that while he’ll often avoid the ‘soup of the day’ and regularly asks the servers what their favourite items are, there are clear red flags to look for.

Ramsay says that if you do fancy the soup, it’s worth asking what soup they were serving up the day before as it could be more of a ‘soup of the month’ type of situation.

He warned against establishments that ‘boast’ about their dishes, claiming them to be the ‘world’s best’, ‘famous’ or the ‘best in the country’.

Of course though, it’s worth a check – the place might actually have won the award for it. But as Ramsay suggests, the likelihood is the restaurant owners have decided on that title themselves.

“Who said that? Who named that?” he said.

You don’t want a special if it’s not ‘special’. (Getty stock)

Chatting to the Daily Mail, the 58-year-old also says a lengthy list of specials on the menu is a red flag for a spot.

“Specials are there to disappear throughout the evening. When they list 10 specials that’s not special,” he explained.

Basically, if the specials board is so big, it’s basically just another menu, nothing special about it.

The TV chef also has some advice if you’re planning on going out for a little cutesy romantic dinner any time soon.

If you’re heading out with you’re significant other, Ramsay says to book a table for three for the two of you, rather than just the seats you need.

That way, he says you’ll reduce your chances of ‘getting stuck in the corner like a doorstop’.

Gordon Ramsay has stepped into action after squatters recently took over his £13million pub.

The TV chef has been having an absolute nightmare after a group of at least six people shacked up inside one of his London properties.

Currently up for sale (with a whopper guide price of £13million), the Grade II-listed York & Albany hotel and gastropub has been taken over by squatters.

It was reported by the Sun last week that the group boarded up the windows of Ramsay’s pub and taped up a ‘legal warning’ on the door.

Naming themselves ‘The Occupiers’, they expressed their right to occupy the venue by Regent’s Park as Ramsay made a seemingly useless call to the police.

As the group can exercise their squatters rights (the place isn’t a residential property), the Metropolitan Police issued a statement that it is ‘a civil matter and so police did not attend’.

(PA)

But the Hell’s Kitchen star has now apparently ‘served papers’ to the squatters, forcing them to ‘cancel’ their cafe they were running from the pub.

It is reported The Camden Art Café used Ramsay’s kitchen appliances to barricade themselves in and glued the locks shut.

On Instagram, they say they are an ‘autonomous café’ which is ‘committed to providing free food and creating a space for the community’.

However, despite a ‘busy’ day yesterday (15 April), they posted an update earlier this morning.

Writing to their Instagram story, the group said: “Apologies to everyone who was going to come along today. Papers served, café cancelled.”

A notice placed on one of the property’s doors read: “Take notice that we occupy this property and at all times there is at least one person in occupation.

“That any entry or attempt to enter into these premises without our permission is therefore a criminal offence as any one of us who is in physical possession is opposed to such entry without our permission.

Gordon Ramsay is having a ‘nightmare’. (Fox)

“That if you attempt to enter by violence or by threatening violence we will prosecute you. You may receive a sentence of up to six months’ imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £5,000.

“That if you want to get us out you will have to issue a claim for possession in the County Court or in the High Court.”

If the group want to make the pricey place theirs, they’ll have to occupy it continuously for 10 years, act as owners the whole time and have not been given permission to live there.

In 2007, film director Gary Love bought the freehold of the former inn. He then leased it to Ramsay on a 25-year term with an annual rent at £640,000.

In 2015, the chef unsuccessfully attempted to free himself from the lease in a legal battle at the High Court. It then went on sale at the end of 2023.

LADbible contacted Ramsay’s team who refused to comment.