The Gordon Ramsay Netflix series is mainly about him but chunks of time devoted to Adam Peaty don’t show him in the best light
The new Gordon Ramsay show is not supposed to be about Adam Peaty, but the TV chef’s new London restaurant projects. However with several large servings of airtime in different episodes, we see plenty of the Olympic swimmer, even though this was filmed before he married Gordon’s daughter Holly.
Adam’s onscreen comments do nothing to help the ongoing row with his parents. But they do perhaps show his true colours. They are at best a bit thoughtless and at worst the signs of a selfish man who is letting his own ego drive a bigger and bigger wedge between himself and the people that brought him up and worked tirelessly to help him win medals. I didn’t expect him to be on screen as much as he is throughout the series, and I was left wondering if he and Holly would like their own reality show.
Adam and his wife, who was his fiancée’s at the time, appear on camera with main man Ramsay in London and Las Vegas and even do interview segments, which several most of the other Ramsay kids avoid doing.
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Perhaps he is slightly unaware how he will sound but Adam says at one point: “Gordon is very fair, very respectful, but also loves a good joke. We’re very similar.” I think of my father-in-law as being fair and respectful, but similar? No, I would definitely say I am more like my own dad.
In this instance he could mean they are both competitive and driven people which would make some sense, but by the end of the series he risks sounding sycophantic toward Gordon. Adam is so keen on Gordon at one point he is shown considering buying some of his Hell’s Kitchen merchandise in Las Vegas so he can wear a Ramsay bandana. We don’t see him in the headgear sadly, but by now it is pretty clear which team he is on and the idea of him being ‘a Ramsay’ is inside his head.
And then we see the engagement party, which Adam’s own family did attend before the fallout with their son. All the footage is again of Adam stood next to Gordon or his wife-to-be. The speeches are edited down, and Adam’s mum has since said she gave a speech we don’t see, but in his words on camera, Adam makes no mention of his own family. It’s another strange moment which sees him talk about Holly but give the final word to Gordon and thanking him for getting permission to marry his daughter.
This is quite a traditional thing to say, but I would also suggest a mention for your own parents in that speech would be normal, but they are edited out of the show at least. Several times during the Netflix series Adam tells us he is “getting emotional” and stops talking or stops his speech, but there are no tears being shed by him for Caroline and Mark.
Adam seems keen to be a Ramsay and to look and live like the family. Judging from how he acts in this series he has all the right ingredients to do this, but knowing what we know about his own parents, I feel watching it all unfold leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
I hope things can be patched up between Adam and his parents, but this series does him no favours and will not help relations either. Perhaps the winners here are Netflix, without the Peaty saga and the engagement party, they would have struggled to string this series out for six episodes just about building works and drama in the kitchens.
* Being Gordon Ramsay is out now on Netflix.
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