Gordon Ramsay has sensationally ended a 16-year feud with a top celebrity chef and will now reunite with him for a new TV show.
The Kitchen Nightmares star, 59, and Marcus Wareing, 55, spent years clashing over a bitter business dispute in 2008 about the lease of the two-Michelin-starred restaurant Pétrus at The Berkeley hotel.
The friction escalated when Marcus, who had worked as Ramsay’s head chef, decided to launch his own independent venture at the location once Ramsay’s contract expired.
Now, however, after burying the hatchet the pair are planning to work together on a new cooking programme for BBC Two.
‘This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside Gordon again,’ Marcus told The Sun.
‘It’s been many years since we last shared a kitchen, and I can’t wait to get started.
‘I’m really looking forward to unwrapping the memories from our cooks and taking them on a journey down memory lane.’
The daytime series, which does not yet have a title, will explore ‘extraordinary human stories’ and help cooks improve by ‘mastering the simplest things’.
Sharing his thoughts on the series, Gordon said: ‘Every chef knows that food is about more than what’s on the plate. It’s about bringing people together and and creating connections.
‘This new format does exactly that. It combines fantastic home cooking with extraordinary human stories and celebrates the kitchen as the heart of every home.’
Commenting on their previous history, the Hell’s Kitchen chef continued: ‘Marcus and I go back a long way, and I’m delighted that we’re coming together to bring this very special series to BBC Daytime.’
In 2023, Marcus claimed that his feud with Gordon, who was recently the star of Netflix’s documentary Being Gordon Ramsay, was ‘the best thing that ever happened to both of us’.
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He told the Daily Mail: ‘I wanted to be in his shoes and I can’t be in his shoes — they’re too big.
‘I knew I couldn’t fill them and I think I had another ambition and I had another goal. So I had to try.’
However, he did previously reveal during an interview with Weekend Magazine in 2011: ‘Gordon verbally kicked the s*** out of you. Then he would buy you a beer. He put me through mental torture.
‘I’d be first in in the morning, and I’d lock up at night. All day, there’d be Gordon being Gordon. It’s a wonder we all survived.’
Marcus has been a judge on MasterChef: The Professionals since 2014, making this his 12th year on the show.
He first joined the programme to replace Michel Roux Jr. alongside co-judges Monica Galetti and Gregg Wallace.
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