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05.01.2023 - 13:51 / deadline.com
Lord Sugar has laid into Gordon Ramsay, accusing the celebrity chef’s Future Food Stars show of ripping off his business competition series The Apprentice.
Sugar, who has sat at the top the boardroom table on BBC One’s The Apprentice since 2005, told the DailyMail Online that restauranteur and broadcaster Ramsay should “stick to the day job” in an attack on Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars, whose second season launches on the same channel later this year.
“Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV have tried for many years — at least for 17 years — to try and replicate the elimination process of The Apprentice,” he said. “I say this with great respect to them but they’ve failed. Last year, Gordon Ramsay had some cockamamie idea.
“I like Gordon and I think he’s very good and should stick to what he should do: cooking and all that stuff. I don’t know how the lawyers allowed it because it was a virtual rip-off of The Apprentice. No disrespect to Gordon but stick to your day job, mate. That’s all I would say.”
Ramsay’s cooking formats empire includes Hell’s Kitchen, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Fox’s MasterChef and Next Level Chef, which launched in the U.S. last year. He also fronts high-rating travelogs for ITV.
In the UK, he debuted Future Food Stars on BBC One last year. The premise sees 12 candidates compete in a series of taks for investment in their culinary business ideas, similar to how hopefuls on The Apprentice fight to have Sugar invest in their business plans. When Deadline first reported on Ramsay’s show in 2020, we noted Future Food Stars “has echoes of The Apprentice,” though it’s fair to say many reality competition shows have offered business investment as the winner’s prize over the years.
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