In a tragic turn of events, New Jersey restaurateur Joseph Cerniglia — a former subject on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares — committed suicide, four years after a Hell’s Kitchen participant also took her own life.
I’m hesitant to take the easy path and rip on Gordon Ramsay’s in-your-face A-hole persona today, because who really knows if he had any impact whatsoever on these two incidents, but fortunately, Four-Star Chef and Top Chef regular Eric Ripert had no such reservations (accidental restaurant pun!), absolutely laying into Gordon Ramsay today in three consecutive Tweets [lotta SIC]:
Zing. The Smiley Raptor ain’t smiling this morning. Hard to argue with the man, though. (Unless it’s about proofreading.)
Sidenote: Twitter has officially been around long enough that I can type “Rips into him with TWEETS” without feeling compelled to call attention to how stupid that sentence sounds. It’s like that day in 2002 where you stopped feeling like some douchey agent character for saying “Gotta check my cell phone.” Hopefully someday we’ll get to that point with our spaceship time machine sex robots.
