Gordon Ramsay was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England from the age of 5. Ramsay is the second of four children; he has an older sister, Diane, a younger brother, Ronnie, and a younger sister, Yvonne. in past public interviews, Ramsay has declined to describe his father as an alcoholic; however, his autobiography, Humble Pie, describes his early life as being marked by abuse and neglect from this “hard-drinking womaniser”. Ramsay continued to train and play on the injured knee, tearing a cruciate ligament during a squash game. (While at Le Gavroche, he met Jean-Claude Breton, now his maître d’ at Royal Hospital Road.) After working at Le Gavroche for a year, Albert Roux invited Ramsay to work with him at Hotel Diva, a ski resort in the French Alps, as his number two. Upon his return to London in 1993, Ramsay was offered the position of head chef at La Tante Claire in Chelsea.
