Charli XCX gave famously foul-mouthed chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay the Brat treatment during their recent live appearance on The Graham Norton Show, fiercely cutting him off and serving him a slice of the sweet, sweet, truth.
The acclaimed restaurateur, 59, who retains eight Michelin stars and roughly 90 eateries across the globe, took a seat on Graham Norton's influential BBC showbiz sofa to promote his latest on-screen venture, the new Netflix documentary Being Gordon Ramsay.
Alongside him was pop star Charli XCX, 33, whose unapologetically hedonistic Brat burst onto the pop scene in 2024 and became the highest rated album of the year, even becoming part of the presidential election following her declaration that 'Kamala IS brat'.
Naturally, Norton had to ask father-of-six Ramsay if his three daughters, Megan, 27, Holly, 26, and Tilly, 24, had taken on board that signature Brat energy after the British singer's sixth album took the world by storm. His response earned a funny reality check from Charli.
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Ramsay told the host about how his daughter's had translated the album into their own behavior, saying: "It's just attitude. In abundance. Loud volume. I think the older you get, the lower you want the volume."
This was perhaps too rich from the chef who rose to notoriety for the brutal way he treated cooks in his kitchen, which viewers got glimpses of in his smash hit TV series Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares.
However, his real life volume and attitude was best captured in the 1999 documentary Boiling Point, where Ramsay frequently screams in his chef's faces who don't meet his standard and gives hell to anyone who dares stand in his way.
Charli, real name Charlotte Aitchison, defending her album and serving Ramsay a slice of humble pie, shot back at him: "I mean, I feel like they could have got that from you though."
Ramsay, who has softened, somewhat, since the days when he was still grinding for his first award of three Michelin stars, took Charli's put down with grace and laughed along with the audience and the other famous names on Norton's couch, telling the singer 'You're right.'
Norton agreed with Charli's point about Ramsay's own attitude, joking: "It’s been Brat kitchen, for some time."
Charli was trading wisecracks with Ramsay as part of the promotion of her new mockumentary film The Moment, which follows the pop star as she navigates the whirlwind success and cultural moment that followed Brat.
Not that she knew the album would be a success at the time, with Charli telling Gwyneth Paltrow on her Goop podcast that she thought it would end her whole career.
She said: "I actually made this record being like, ‘OK, I’m just going to do this one for me. Maybe I’m going to get dropped by my label and that’s fine’. That was kind of the headspace that I was in."
Topics: Gordon Ramsay, Netflix, Music
William Morgan