Gordon Ramsay, a husband and father, is a devoted husband and father despite having a fiery temper.
The Hell’s Kitchen star, 58, tied the knot to wife Tana, 50, in 1996 and went on to welcome Megan, 26, twins Holly and Jack, 24, Tilly, 22, five-year-old Oscar and baby Jesse, who was born in 2023. However it almost wasn’t meant to be as when they first met at a party of a mutual friend, Tana, a former schoolteacher, was already dating someone else.
Soon afterward, their paths crossed again, and the pair has since committed. As Gordon reached international stardom, earning an impressive accolade from Michelin restaurants, Tana held the fort at home, raising their six children.
And it hasn’t been easy as they split their time as a family between LA and London thanks to the restauranteur’s demanding career, with their marriage once rocked by a cheating scandal in 2008, and more recently, overcoming the tragic loss of their stillborn son, Rocky.
Cheating claim
When a woman claimed to have had a seven-year affair with Gordon, their romance was roiled. When Sarah Symonds claimed to have met the TV chef at London’s Chinawhite Nightclub in the winter of 2001 while working in sales for an events and limo company in London at the age of 31.
Gordon vehemently refuted the claims made in the now-defunct News of the World in 2008, telling a Birmingham-based cookery audience: “If I was going to cheat it wouldn’t be with a complete slapper.
Writing for MailOnline, Sarah claimed: “At 37, our relationship was the longest, albeit unwisest, I’d ever had with a man (and is, in fact, still the longest relationship I’ve ever been in).
she added:” Christmas is soul-sappingly miserable when you’re involved with a married man. On this most magical day of the year, they always return to their wife, despite your best guess that they care about you. “The Mirror contacted Gordon’s reps for comment at the time.
According to Sarah, who wrote a book called Having an Affair? Gordon never once inquired about her festive plans in A Handbook for the Other Woman, which Gordon gave her as a gift ten days before Christmas 2007.
However, Gordon allegedly assured Tana that he had only met Symonds four times before the report was published, and that the outcry was reportedly his.
‘Resentment’
Like most couples, the division of labour around the house can be a source of contention. Tana has also acknowledged that she disliked doing their household’s majority of the childcare.
The former teacher, 50, discussed this with Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, where she claimed she found it difficult to watch her husband relax after working despite the pair agreeing that she would assume most of his responsibilities while he was a chef and TV star.
Asked if their prior agreement made it easier for the couple, she replied:” Yes, but it doesn’t mean that sometimes you didn’t resent it. When I say resent, it’s just sometimes I’d be like, ‘ oh, for God’s sake, you can’t, you know… do you need to sit on the sofa and sort of rest and watch the news and have ten minutes to yourself? Because I can’t do that. ‘
“And I think I’d be lying if I said: ‘ No, it’s fine, I took this on. ‘ And there were times when it was very difficult, but you eventually get over it.
Baby loss heartbreak
While Gordon and Tana are proud parents of six children, they tragically lost a third. Rocky was stillborn, Rocky’s mother had to give him to his mother at 20 weeks of gestation, with her partner by her side.
In a candid admission, Tana revealed that son Oscar, five, who was born three years later, often asks about his older “brother in the sky”. She revealed she harbors guilt over what transpired during a conversation with Lorraine Candy and Trish Halpin on the Postcards from Midlife podcast in July.
The 50-year-old questioned whether she could have “done something differently” while sharing that she and Gordon, 57, will never get over the heartbreak. “I still suffer so much guilt”, she said, before going on to ask whether she “should have known something”.
The mum-of-six added: “I still suffer so much guilt. Did I, should I have known something? Should I have done something differently? It’s one of those things where you can kind of just justify being okay on some days.
Tana went on to add: “Other days, for some reason, whether it’s because you’re overtired or something triggers you, I can have a day where I just feel really emotional. Knowing that a baby won’t last more than an hour makes it difficult to anticipate holding one. That is always gonna be something I can never, never get over”.
“Even Oscar now, he talks about Rocky, his brother in the sky or his star”, she said. She continued: “And he’ll come out with things like ‘ I really don’t like him being there. Why can’t he just come here? ‘ After I had Oscar, which had to be around three weeks old, one of the hardest times actually occurred. And I had a day where I felt so emotional. I believe it was because I had a new baby and didn’t feel enough of it. And that threw me, and Gordon warned me, “You’re always going to hit you like this right now, because we’ve been so trapped in this bubble.”
And then you suddenly realize that I had a bad time not sort of thought it through. You can never know what’s around the corner with grief, and we’ve never had anything like that. Although it was difficult for Gordon to reveal Rocky’s loss, Tana’s admission comes just one year later. On the seventh anniversary of Rocky’s death, Tana explained he had been born with a strong heartbeat but was sadly” too little to survive”.
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Source: Mirror
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