Gordon Ramsay News

Gordon Ramsay is counting down the days until Hell's Kitchen Season Four premieres.

"I'm very excited about Season 4, more so than any other year before. When you look at the setup in terms of the level of professionalism, this year we've raised the bar," Ramsay told reporters during a Monday conference call.

Unlike previous editions of the show, Hell's Kitchen's fourth-season cast will be competing for an executive chef position in one of Ramsay's own restaurants: The London West Hollywood.

"Looking for a chef personally is something I've stood by, got very nervous about and more importantly, I'd like to think that we have the most amazing -- I hate that word 'cast' -- I call them chefs," Ramsay said. "Fox wanted to run a show and I run the restaurant, so it's a great team of chefs, more so than any other year."

As for the fourth-season female contestants? The foul-mouthed chef describes them as "amazing."

"I've never seen anything quite like it," he said. "It's quite refreshing, really on the back of a male dominant, chauvinistic stance that kitchens have today, so I was really pleased."

Hell's Kitchen will premiere on April 1.

It doesn't take a culinary expert such as Gordon Ramsay to tell you fast food is unhealthy.

But it does take a respected chef such as this Hell's Kitchen star to offer up quick, tasty, healthy alternatives to a Whopper or a Big Mac.

That's Ramsay's mission in his latest book, aptly titled "Fast Food." Already released in the United Kingdom, the book's pre-release blurb in America states:

Throw away the takeout menus, ready meals, and convenience foods! These days everyone wants fast food but at the same time, they want to eat well. And there's no one better than Gordon Ramsay to show you how to cook real food fast and make it taste delicious too! With his unique style, high voltage energy, and passion for good food Gordon shows how to get a great meal on the table in less time than it would take to have takeout delivered.

The book is said to be "packed with ideas for 5-minute snacks, 10-minute main courses, and 30-minute menus for all occasions. A cookbook for the way we live today, Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food is the stunning follow-up to his fabulously successful library of titles."

The book will be release on March 28, just in time for the premiere of Hell's Kitchen on April 1.

With yet another reality show coming out, Gordon Ramsay is in hot demand. TV Guide recently caught up with the celebrity chef...

TV Guide: You've developed something of a coarse reputation on Hell's Kitchen. Are you OK with that?
Gordon Ramsay: When I'm in the kitchen, and the s--t is hitting the fan, there are two ways you can handle things: my way or the soft way. To me, it's far better to reprimand the cook and say, "Wake up and get to it or you'll be flipping f--king burgers for a f--king living!" I mean, can you imagine trying to be polite in such a setting?

TV Guide: You're a dad of four kids. Are you concerned that they'll follow your cursing proficiency?
Ramsay: Well, my wife and I have four children with immaculate manners, and I certainly don't want them thinking they can go around saying whatever they want, whenever they want. That said, they need to know that there's a right place and a wrong place to speak that way. I think I do it in the right place.

TV Guide: In Kitchen Nightmares, your fall Fox show that's based on the U.K. series, you whip failing restaurants into shape. What did you find?
Ramsay: I thought I found some sh--holes in Britain, but nothing will ever compare to the places I encountered in the States. I can't wait for the viewers to have access to what I encountered. What dumbfounded me was the way some of the chefs take advantage of the customers.

TV Guide: You take it personally, don't you?
Ramsay: I can't help it. Food is personal to me. I was in Las Vegas earlier this year and I had an executive chef who had never touched a stove in his life. He looked like a pig, he smelled like a pig. He actually tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Tell me the truth â€" you're not a chef, you're an actor. Right?" I said, "Do me a favor, f--k off." A lot of these guys forget that they're here for the customers, not to feed their egos.

TV Guide: Are we going to see a kinder, gentler you on the American version of Kitchen Nightmares?
Ramsay: Nicer? I don't think so. I am who I am. Truth is, I don't even watch the shows, because I don't want to see myself and say, "Man, I need Botox" or "Those jeans look terrible" or "My teeth need to be whitened."

TV Guide: You've completed 10 marathons. Does running help you as a chef?
Ramsay: I run about 30 miles per week, and it lifts a great deal of stress. Pressure is healthy, and enough pressure can actually make a good chef. But being a chef is a very physical job that's both mentally and physically draining. You have to keep yourself in shape to maintain.

TV Guide: Are you concerned about what people write about you online? You're described in 8,000 horrible ways.
Ramsay: I never surf the 'Net, like some lazy ass with nothing better to do. I don't give two f--ks what people are writing about me. My critics are my customers. I've never Googled myself, and….

TV Guide: Really? Never?
Ramsay: Never. I wake up in the morning, take a run and work my ass off. I don't wanna listen to some vegetarian in Texas or Minnesota who can't stand the way I talk to my staff.

TV Guide: You're driving down a highway and you're hungry. You see a McDonald's on the side of the road. Do you stop for a Big Mac?
Ramsay: My friend, I'd rather eat a f--king cow-pie sandwich.

David Beckham makes news on the soccer field.

Victoria Beckham makes news for her giant boobs.

But this British power couple may soon be making news for a venture with foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay.

Ramsay tells News of the World, "We've been friends for a while and have spoken about it. There's always been something in the pipeline."

That something would basically be a restaurant, one that caters to vegetarians we'd imagine because the former Posh Spice is one.

Can you ever have enough of Gordon Ramsay? FOX is certainly hoping you cannot.

The network is bringing the mean chef's original UK reality series to the States this fall. Kitchen Nightmares will air in the competitive Thursday at 9 p.m. timeslot. It was initially scheduled to air in the spring.

On the show, Ramsay helps "restaurant owners in crisis with lazy chefs in the kitchen, temperamental wait staffs and few and unhappy diners" by doing what he does best: making like an even meaner version of Simon Cowell, screaming and insulting.

In the U.S. version, which the original press release described as being "inspired by" the UK program, Ramsay "attempts to turn around floundering restaurants in less than a week," FOX said this week.

Meanwhile, Hell's Kitchen 3 debuts in June.

It should be a fiery summer across many ovens this summer on FOX.