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After losing his friend and fellow chef David Dempsey in 2003 due to a bad reaction to adulterated cocaine, as well as witnessing firsthand the incessant abuse of the substance by his colleagues and employees, Gordon Ramsay has made a docuseries about the restaurant industry’s cocaine epidemic. The ITV original feature titled Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine premiered on British TV this week and Ramsay has promised it is coming to the USA “soon.”
According to The Sun, the foul-mouthed television personality handles 3o kilos of cocaine at a forensic laboratory in the documentary, which has an estimated street value of nearly $120,000. He also swabs his London restaurant’s toilets to check for cocaine residue, which he finds. He does not, however, use the drug, which has left some viewers disappointed and claiming that the feature’s title is misleading.
Ramsay is known in the States for his hit network cooking shows Hell’s Kitchen and The F Word, helmed by his very own production company Studio Ramsay. He rose to fame as a television personality due to his laughably harsh methods of criticism and demand for perfection from all of his proteges. While a feature on cocaine is certainly out of his wheelhouse, his blunt delivery seems to make him a suitable host for such a devastating topic.
In the preview clip below, you can watch as Gordon treks through the Colombian jungle to learn and explain to viewers how cocaine is made:
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