Who ever would have guessed Gordon Ramsay was 'a bit of a bastard'?

I wasn't going to post about this because it was all so tawdry and tacky but hey, here we go.
As the story of Gordon Ramsay's mistress has unfolded over the past few days, what has shocked me the most is not the fact he was having affairs. Knock me over with a feather, I'm just not that surprised that he'd cheat.
What has been far more disturbing to me is the mistress. The way she set him up. The way she has spoken about him. And his wife. I'm not suggesting Ramsay was not at fault - he was the married one - but the levels of anger in the mistress are truly frightening.
When I first heard about this story, I thought it all seemed odd how much detail the UK tabloid News Of The World had. And the photos. It could only have come from a very inside source and indeed, they were RIGHT inside. 'Professional mistress' Sarah Symon set him up. For cash? Revenge? Both?

Ramsay and mistress Sarah Symon in the shot of him entering her hotel room that she set up for the newspaper that paid her hundreds of thousands of pounds......

Now in the interview she's sold to the paper, she says extraordinary things like:

"I was his confidante - more than a mistress," she says. "He even called me his 'soulmate'."

“Gordon has his PR team working round the clock, trying desperately to protect Brand Ramsay and this image of him as the ultimate family man,” she says. “But he’s a complete hypocrite, and I can’t believe he’s been getting away with it for so long.

“Not only has he been cheating on Tana with ME but he told me he had another regular mistress in Denmark.

“He said she is a writer and is married too. They’d met after he’d done a book signing over there and that they’d had sex after that and continued from there.

“He also told me he’d had sex with a girl after a Hell’s Kitchen wrap party. He told me that it was a one-nighter four years ago in LA.

“............Gordon had called me earlier in November. He said his birthday was coming up and asked for a special present involving sex,” says Sarah.

They arranged to meet on Thursday, November 13. “While I was waiting for him in the flat I saw a TV ad of him and his family. It seemed so hypocritical. I started to see him for what he is—a bit of a bastard.

....Earlier this week newspaper reports had the chef assuring Tana he has only ever met Sarah four times. But Sarah retorts: “Gordon and I have had sex at least seven times. We have met up at least 18 times. He’s phoned me hundreds of times over the last seven years. I’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve had phone sex.

“If I hadn’t been living in LA and Gordon wasn’t so busy with his restaurants and TV shows, we would have met for sex a lot more often.” Sarah adds: “His wife might be able to forgive him a one-off but I am far from a one- off.”

She insists she feels no guilt whatsoever about the affair.“I can’t feel guilty, I’m single,” she says. “Gordon pursued me NOT the other way round—and I’m not the one who’s married with four children. But if a wife can’t keep her husband happy that’s not MY fault.

“I never forced him on top of me. Somebody like Gordon Ramsay doesn’t do anything he doesn’t want to do. Surely the whole world knows that by now.

“In fact my relationship with Gordon is probably the reason their marriage has lasted this long. A mistress keeps a marriage going. Period.

“I’m sure that after spending time with me Gordon was able to go home and be a better father and husband because he was no longer looking for the things his wife didn’t give him.”

Sarah denies she is a homewrecker who deliberately targets married men. “I’m not attracted to married men. I’m attracted to successful, charismatic, high-powered men.

“Unfortunately they’re usually married. But in this case not only has he been cheating on his wife with me, he’s been cheating on me with another mistress too. He’s a serial f******g cheat!” 

Where do you even start with all that bile? The bit I can't understand is how she had an affair with this guy for 7 years and then suddenly gets upset that he's not moral? That he's 'a bit of a bastard'? And so she seeks to punish him by exposing him publicly. But in doing that, what has she done to herself?

Comments

[jd]

They are both complete morons in my eyes. I feel for his wife, I can't imagine how hard life would be for her at the moment.
I saw Gordon Ramsay on Denton and thought he was a misogynist.
Especially when he said that he was not present at any of his kids births because he did not think he wanted to see her vagina in that way (can't remember his exact words but it was along those lines)
It was all about HIM and how HE felt. Nothing about what his wife was going through, or the miracle of seeing your child come into the world. Since then I cant stand him.

[Paula]

The whole thing is tacky and I was going to refrain from commenting, but .... what gets me is that the woman has written a whole BOOK about being a mistress and done media on her affair with Jeffery Archer, she was on Oprah for God's sake, WHY would you pick her of all people if you're a famous married man wanting a bit on the side? He had to know this kind of media stitch up was inevitable!

[Jess]

God the part where she says "But if a wife can’t keep her husband happy that’s not MY fault" makes me so mad !!
Can't believe she would attack his wife, because of course Gordon would of fulfilled all his wife's needs and wants he must just be the best husband in the world that's why she hasn't had an affair!!! Give me a break!!!!

[Aimee]

Dear oh dear, how icky. I particularly love the part where she takes credit for the longevity of the Ramsay's marriage.

His poor wife.

[Mel]

I googled her to find out more...she's written a book for women in affairs and was once the mistress of Jeffery Archer. She's a fame-whore among other things.

HE is a tosser - but I knew that just from watching him on the TV.

[~Jaime~]

I agree with Aimee, his poor wife.

I can't believe how nasty the mistress is. I think (or perhaps I hope?) one day the tables will be turned on her and she'll be devastated by another woman saying I'm not the one that's married, I don't feel any guilt.

[kass]

Professional mistress says everything I ned to know. She is nothing but a skank.

(and I am not sticking up for ramsay here, but there is no doubt she targets the rich and famous)

[Cath]

No surprises the Ramsay marriage is under pressure - he works and travels continuously, she (practically single handedly) raises the family. I don't mind Gordon Ramsay - and unfortunately, this hasn't changed my view of him that much. It's as if I don't really expect more of him, to be honest. He's quite honest about his life and his failings, and I think he really struggles to keep it all together. He's never PC, and doesn't try to be. So although I do feel for his wife, she's hardly the first famous wife who's husband has been publicly outed as a cheat. Like Victoria Beckham, she'll most likely survive it.

But this woman is really a piece of work. To set someone up, and then publicly humiliate him and his family (making sure his wife and family, as well as everyone else, knows all the details - especially in regard to the drug use), is just beyond awful. She obviously had feelings for him, and is smarting because he's lied about only meeting her a few times - very Monica Lewinsky (she always came over as very betrayed, because Bill Clinton's denial of their relationship made it sound so insignifigant - when it was very signifigant to her). Wise up Sarah - wife + kids = A LIFE. That will pretty much always trump professional mistress!

I don't really care that much about famous peoples' infidelities - I'm usually more surprised if a couple stays together and doesn't have any! But this woman is just morally bankrupt in every way. She is pathetic in the extreme. There are no words. (And for me - that's really saying something!).

[gigdiary]

Cath, for once I have no words either, I actually agree with you 100%.

(And for me - that's really saying something!).

[Britts]

Oh god, his poor wife.
Even more than that though, I feel so sorry for his children..