So Gordon Ramsay "has fessed up", as he calls it, and admitted to stealing his own reservation book way back in the day when he was head chef of the Chelsea Michelin-starred restaurant Aubergine.
It's an extraordinary revelation given that the police haven't ruled out reopening the nine-year-old investigation into the theft.
The confession was given to Bill Burford a reporter for the "New Yorker" magazine, who followed Gordon around while he was opening his first New York restaurant in November last year.
I have to say its typical Ramsay to let something like this slip, it obviously makes great copy and headlines, but has gone one step too far and really landed himself in hot water.
Not surprisingly Marco Pierre White, Ramsay's former boss who he blamed for stealing the book, feels vindicated. He told the Guardian yesterday:
"All it has done for me is confirm that what I did - cut the umbilical cord - was the right thing to do. If that's how you pay back your friend, and people who've helped you, that's sad. But I've always said that ambition is the most dangerous preoccupations in the world."
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How strange that Ramsey didn't just own-up to this in his recent autobiograph, "Humble Pie". Although, I must admit, the way the incident was described in the book did make me wonder....
Hi Ursula
Thanks for your comment, and I agree it was an odd description given in Humble Pie... there are lots of rumours about how Marco will react now and whether he will take legal action against Gordon...
Sorry that the post didn't seem to work first time, we do have an issue with this that we can hopefully get rectified.