Gordon Ramsay has made up with a fellow celebrity chef after having fallen out 16 years ago.
Hot-tempered pair Ramsay and Marcus Wareing have spent more than 16 years feuding. But the old friends-turned-enemies are now back on the best of terms.
English chef Marcus Wareing was considered Renfrewshire -born Ramsay’s protégé at Aubergine in the Nineties. He named his boss best man at his wedding, as well as godfather to his eldest child.
And in 1999, the besties even opened a restaurant together, Pétrus, with Wareing as head chef, reported the Scottish Daily Express.
While the high-class restaurant earned two Michelin stars, it proved to be the undoing of their relationship, which came to a dramatic end in 2008.
The chef has reportedly made up with Marcus Wareing after a 16-year-long argument (Image: Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Wareing wanted to take over the lease at London’s Berkeley Hotel, and a legal battle ensued. It ended with Ramsay keeping the Pétrus name and Wareing going solo.
But fans were stunned last week when the pair posted photos on social media of them enjoying a meal together.
Wareing, 54, said: “It’s been a long time coming”, while Ramsay, 58, wrote: “Dinner with friends.”
Commenting on the pics from a mystery venue, MasterChef critic William Sitwell said: “Well, well, well. Next up: peace in the Middle East and a Russia Ukraine truce. Hoorah!!”
The pair are finally besties again (Image: Instagram)
Others compared the make-up to the Oasis reunion.
Wareing once admitted: “It was me who started it. I picked a fight. I no longer wanted to be kept in a corner, so I spoke up. And, well, it got nasty.”
He retired from the restaurant game last year, but remains a judge on BBC’s MasterChef: The Professionals.
Speculation has risen recently that Ramsay is also beefing with another celebrity chef, Gino D’Acampo, who is currently facing dozens of accusations of sexually inappropriate behaviour.
Rumours spread that the pair had fallen out before Ramsay’s sudden departure from Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Road Trip, which the pair hosted together with Fred Sirieix.
D’Acampo hit out, claiming Ramsay had ‘turned against him’ after his production company issued a blunt statement on the matter.
The production company said: “Studio Ramsay have not worked on a series with Gino D’Acampo since 2022.
“We take all allegations of inappropriate behaviour and workplace misconduct seriously, promptly investigate, and take appropriate remedial action when warranted.”
