Gordon Ramsay has revealed he feared for one contestant’s life whilst filming a cliff-jumping stunt for his new BBC show.
The Michelin-starred chef, 55, has just launched Future Food Stars, his latest cooking show which airs to BBC One and BBC iPlayer ever week on Thursday at 9pm.
The Apprentice-style show sees 12 of the nation’s best budding food and drinks entrepreneurs battle it out in a bid to impress Gordon and earn his whopping £150,000 investment.
The hand-picked contestants compete against each other in a series of relentless challenges to prove they have what it takes to shine in the food and drink business.
The show also sees the contestants do a range of weird and wonderful stunts – one of which involved the BBC foodies jumping off of a cliff into the sea.
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In the first episode, the chefs had to overcome any fears of heights they might have had and propel themselves off of a towering cliff edge – without hitting the rocks below.
However, it almost went terribly wrong for health coach Bola, 46, from Hertfordshire, who owns an apple cider vinegar seltzer brand called Jitterbug.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Star and other press, Gordon confessed he was terrified he’d lost Bola in a horror jumping accident after she threw herself off of the cliff.
The Kitchen Nightmares star even turned to his crew and swore as he worried he’d “lost a contender” – given how close Bola was to the rock down below.
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Although she wasn’t injured, she was so close to the rock, Gordon insisted, that it was like the distance between a “pair of nat’s boll***s.”
He said: “Can we just quickly talk about… I thought we’d lost Bola on that jump. Because it’s the first time, I thought ‘sh**, this is going to be like Future Food Stars A&E.
“I said ‘Look out, jump out’ and she said ‘yes’ and she looks down and jumps down.
“I swear to god, the distance between her and hitting the rock was the distance between a pair of nat’s boll***s.”
Revealing his anxious exchange with his crew, he continued: “I was like ‘oh my god’. I turned around to the producers and went ‘sh**. We’ve just lost a contender.”
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The culinary king then quipped an imagined headline displaying the horror incident if it had occurred when he added: “‘Ramsay smashes lady’s head on a rock.”
In the first week, Vincenzo Gentile was booted off of the show, and last week saw cocktail box creator Jen Wright walk away empty-handed.
Speaking about how his show came about, Gordon explained that Britain weren’t respected in central Europe as a stand-out industry, but now we’re in an “amazing position” to rival our fellow countries.
He said: “The show wasn’t possible because we never had that respect in central Europe as a stand-out industry so now we are in an amazing position to rival fellow countries with some amazing food and drink ideas.”
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