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If you turn on a television and flip around for a bit, chances are good you’ll wind up on a show starring Gordon Ramsay. From Hell’s Kitchen to MasterChef to MasterChef Junior and all their various spinoffs, there’s no shortage of Gordon Ramsay shows out there. But in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ramsay revealed he put the end to one of his shows himself.
“I canceled my own show on Fox, Kitchen Nightmares,” Ramsay said. He explained he hit a breaking point with one of the restaurants on his show and realized he had enough.
“I woke up in the middle of the south of France after filming a week with a British guy I wouldn’t trust to run my bath, let alone my restaurant,” he told the magazine. “Because he was running a ski resort, he felt like he could take advantage of all those customers because there was nowhere else to eat. He was giving me shit for telling him the truth and I thought, ‘I’m done.’”
But Fox executives weren’t quite ready to lose the show, and so they figured out a compromise: shelve Kitchen Nightmares, wait a few years, and then revamp the concept with a different restaurant-saving show: 24 Hours to Hell and Back, which has been renewed for a second season.
“I got a phone call [from Fox] and the call went like this: ‘You know Gordon, before you take your own show down, don’t you think we should talk about that together, as your partners? We don’t mind you resting it, but we’d like to come back with something stronger,’” he said. “I rested it for three years and came back with 24 Hours to Hell and Back. So I’m my own tough taskmaster and I put myself through the mill equally as I do with any particular restaurant, or challenge or competition.”
