GORDON Ramsay has been accused of a hate crime after joking that he cannot stand Cornish people. The celebrity chef, who owns a holiday home in the county, sparked fury with his comments.
Ramsay, 55, told Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show yesterday: “Trust me, I absolutely love Cornwall, it’s just the Cornish I can’t stand.” When challenged by stand-in host Vernon Kay he refused to apologise, insisting: “I promise I did mean it.” But the leader of Cornish nationalist party Mebyon Kernow, Dick Cole, said: “I am really disappointed to hear Gordon Ramsay’s divisive comments and his lack of respect for the Cornish people. “It is shocking he deems it OK to make such a statement that he’d presumably not make about other national or ethnic groups.
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