Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has been slammed after reflecting on a time in his life when he was 'skint' and needed to borrow £20,000 to put down a deposit on his and wife Tana's first flat.The Scots TV chef, 56, appeared on Jake Humphrey's High-Performance podcast where he recalled the 'difficult' moment when he was forced to sell his Porsche in order to buy the starter property for himself and his wife.He explained: "We were young, we were stupid and we were skint.
I remember going to ask her father if I could borrow £20,000 for the deposit for a flat that we fell in love with."And I thought this was all going well, lunch was good, I’ll pay for lunch and I said, ‘Oh about that deposit, Tana and I, we’ve got half of it but we need the other twenty grand.
I’ll pay you back in a year.’ He said, ‘Okay, here’s what I'll do. I'll have another lunch with you when you sell your Porsche’."I thought, ‘You f***er but you clever f***er’.
Here I am driving around in a flash f***ing nine eleven and we didn’t even have a f***ing house, we didn’t have a flat, we didn’t have a roof over our heads.
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