Gordon Ramsay’s big, happy family: meet his five kids with wife Tana – Megan, Holly, Jack, Tilly and Oscar – but which of them could carry on the Hell’s Kitchen host’s celebrity chef legacy?
Hell’s Kitchen host Gordon Ramsay is one of the world’s most famous chefs – and he’s also a family man, with five children with his wife, cookbook author Tana
Megan works at a PR firm, Holly has her own podcast, Jack joined the Royal Marines; Tilly stars in her own cooking show and Oscar has nearly 310,000 Instagram followers at the age of four
When Tana Ramsay met her future husband, Gordon Ramsay, she didn’t think much of him at first.
But he changed her mind and nearly 30 years after they’ve been married, they’re still going strong. The couple now have five children together: Megan, 24, twins Holly and Jack, 23, Tilly, 21, and Oscar, four.
Cayetana “Tana” Elizabeth Hutcheson was in her early 20s – and engaged to someone else – when she met Gordon at a New Year’s Eve party in London, but she didn’t think much of him at first, she told The Guardian in 2008. However, they had a mutual friend who bumped into them again and they started dating.
In 1996, when Gordon was 29 and Tana was 21, they married in Chelsea, London.
After initially struggling to conceive and undergoing IVF, they welcomed their first child, Megan, in 1998. By 2001, their first four children had arrived.
Speaking to The Herald in 2008, Tana said they were surprised by how quickly their family grew. “We knew we wanted a big family,” she said, “but it was amazing to have it so close together. When I found out I was expecting [fourth child] Tilly, I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, how am I going to manage this?’ But you can do it.”
Tana, who originally trained as a teacher, is also adept in the kitchen and has published several cookbooks, including Tana’s Kitchen Secrets and Tana Ramsay’s Real Family Food.
Read on to meet the celebrity chef’s five children.
1. Megan Ramsay, 24
Born in 1998, their first daughter, Megan Jane Ramsay, has no public career. She was the first in her family to graduate from university, her father shared on Instagram when she graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2019. “So proud of this young lady,” he wrote alongside photos of Megan in her cap and gown, adding, “hard work pays off!”
According to her LinkedIn profile, she currently works at a PR and communications firm in London.
Although she usually stays out of the spotlight, Megan appeared in an episode of Hell’s Kitchen, where she celebrated her 21st birthday with her father.
And while she keeps a low profile, that hasn’t stopped her father from publicly dissing her boyfriend. Speaking to Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Show in January 2022, Ramsay said, “Megan started seeing her ex-boyfriend, his name is Byron. He was okay at first, a little steamy. You want a man to date your daughter and he’s just a little bit pathetic.”
But he can also be a doting dad. On her 24th birthday in May 2022, he shared a photo of the two of them together on Instagram. “Happy birthday to this gorgeous woman,” he captioned the photo. “Words can’t express how proud you make me every day.”
2 and 3. Twins Holly and Jack Ramsay, 23
On January 1, 2000, Holly Anna Ramsay and Jack Scott Ramsay were born. According to Hello! magazine, they were born seven weeks early.
In a December 2020 Instagram post, their mother recalled her struggles as a mother of premature twins. “Watching them grow into chubby, healthy babies in their first year has been a true blessing and I will always be grateful for the determination they have shown and their strong personalities,” she wrote.
The twins now have a close relationship, but their career interests differ.
Holly is a mental health advocate, podcast and documentary producer, and model. She has more than 300,000 followers on both Instagram and TikTok.
Her podcast, 21 & Over, is described as supporting young people as they navigate challenges such as “anxiety, low self-esteem, mental health, and building identity in today’s world.”
