Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is to star in his own stop-motion animation series after striking a deal with Cuppa Coffee Studios, a Toronto-based animation house. Titled ‘Gordon Ramsay, at your service’, the half hour show will take “the essence of who he is and have a bit of fun with it,” said Adam Shaheen, Executive Producer of Cuppa Coffee.
The project was shipped to buyers at Mipcom International TV Sales Confab in Cannes. Nick at Nite’s primetime toon seris ‘Glenn Martin, DDS’ and MTV’s ‘Celebrity Deathmatch’ include Cuppa Coffee animations. Gordon Ramsey has a total of 16 Michelin stars and in 2001, became one of the only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at a time. With regards to Michelin stars, Ramsay is currently ranked third in the world. He is well known for presenting TV programmes regarding competitive cookery and food. Some of the shows he stars in are: Hell’s Kitchen, The F Word and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.
In July 2006, Ramsay won the Catey award for “Independent Restaurateur of the Year’ while having already won two Catey’s in 1995: Newcomer of the Year and Chef of the Year (2000). Caterersearch 100 list, an annual UK hospitality industry magazine published by the Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine in September 2006 named Ramsay the most influential person in the industry.
His flagship restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, was voted London’s top restaurant in food bible Harden’s for eight years, but last year, it was placed below Petrus, a restaurant run by former protégé Marcus Wareing.