'Get me out of here!’ Gordon Ramsay recalls cooking for Vladimir Putin and Tony Blair

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Tony Blair and President Putin.“I genuinely did s*** myself. I was thinking 'Could you imagine if you food poisoned these two. “Could you imagine the kind of s*** I would get if I took these presidents down.'”Later on the chef added: “It was quite an extraordinary experience.

I was standing in between them to say hello and they were asking me about the English asparagus and I'm thinking 'Get me the f*** out of here, I'm done.'”The Hell’s Kitchen star went on to share that he was surprised by the lack of space and basic kitchen utensils at Downing Street.

He explained: “ After I had finished with them I had to go upstairs and cook for the two first ladies in this tiny little flat.“You had to take your own pots and pans.

In Downing Street you would expect a proper kitchen but we were loading in pots and pans.”Gordon apparently also took sous chefs Mark Sargeant from Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and Angela Hartnell from Pétrus along to help him prepare the lunch.During the strange dining experience, Putin and Blair tucked into a menu that included tomato consomme with golden caviare from albino sturgeon, mosaic of chicken and ham knuckle, roasted slice of sea bass on crushed new potatoes with white asparagus in a red wine sauce, and treacle tart.The notoriously tough chef also told Kelly that the most high-profile person he had ever had the pleasure of cooking for was the late Princess Diana, who visited his restaurant in Chelsea.Recalling the “amazing moment”, he called the “gracious” Diana a “wonderful lady” and noted that it was an “incredible six minutes at the table” that he would “never forget”.The star has previously discussed cooking for Putin on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in July 2018.During the interview,.