Gordon Ramsay says his fortune ‘definitely won’t’ be left to his 4 kids
Gordon Ramsay’s kids don’t live the lavish lifestyle you’d expect when your dad is a celebrity chef.
Gordon Ramsay’s kids don’t live the lavish lifestyle you’d expect when your dad is a celebrity chef.
In an interview with The Telegraph, the 50-year-old restaurateur revealed that he deliberately didn’t leave his fortune to his four children — Holly, Matilda, Megan and Jack. “Definitely not, and not in a bad way; it’s not to spoil them,” he explained. “The only thing I agreed with Tana was that they had a 25% deposit on a flat, but not the whole flat.”
In fact, Ramsay — who has been married to Tana, 42, since 1996 — said his children don’t even enjoy the perks of having wealthy parents today. “They don’t sit with us in first class. They don’t work hard enough to afford it,” he notes. “At that age, at that size, you’re telling me they need to sit in first class? No, they don’t. We’re really strict about that.”
He jokes, “I turn left with Tana and they turn right and I say to the chief steward, ‘Make sure those kids don’t come near us, I want to sleep on this plane.’ I worked my ass off to sit that close to the pilot and you appreciate it more when you’ve worked hard for it.”
“They have a completely different life than I did when I was a kid,” Ramsay adds. “I worked my ass off to get out of the mess I grew up in and they’re so grateful, they’re not spoiled.”
While Ramsay is adamant about not spoiling his children, he does provide for them. “Meg is at university and has a budget of £100 a week; the others get about £50 a week and they have to pay for their own phone, their bus fare,” he said. “The sooner you give them the responsibility of saving for trainers and jeans, the better.”
While Ramsay is known for his cooking, he shared that his children “cook as a life skill, not a career.”
“I never want to put that burden on them,” he continued. “I don’t want them wearing badges, going into the kitchen [with people] thinking they’re Ramsay’s daughter or son.”
In July 2014, ET spoke to Tana about her husband, revealing that the chef definitely has a softer side. “When it comes to the kids, he’s completely hands-off, especially when they’re teenagers,” she said. “Anything I say is inappropriate.”
