Gordon Ramsay takes a thinly-veiled swipe at his ‘whinging’ neighbours by praising a local who gifts him with fresh asparagus as he holes up in Cornwall amid lockdown
Gordon Ramsay has made a thinly-veiled dig at the Cornish locals who have berated him for relocating his family to his country home during the coronavirus lockdown – by heaping praise on a kindly neighbour.
The TV chef – who is isolating on the coast with wife Tana and their five children – received a delivery of fresh asparagus, left by a local on his doorstep with a hand-written note, which read: ‘A little gift from the fields across your house.’
‘Now what a lovely, beautiful, generous little gift,’ the 53-year-old gushed. ‘C’mon, seriously, that’s literally growing in the back of my garden. Now that’s what I call love thy neighbour, see?
Kind gesture: Gordon Ramsay received a delivery of fresh asparagus, left by a local on his doorstep with a hand-written note on Tuesday
‘That’s how you look after each other across these difficult times. There you go.’
He added, sarcastically: ‘I’m sure one local will whinge about the asparagus!’
The Ramsays have been the target of fury in the Polzeath Beach area, where they are living in their £4.4m home.
The anger is somewhat confused, however, as the Gordon and family retreated to their second home at the start of the lockdown, which is not against the government’s rules.
Everybody needs good neighbours: ‘Now what a lovely, beautiful, generous little gift,’ the 53-year-old gushed. ‘C’mon, seriously, that’s literally growing in the back of my garden. Now that’s what I call love thy neighbour, see?’
While people with second homes are not allowed to travel back and forth, choosing one home and sitting out the lockdown in it is not against official advice.
Yet the Cornish locals appear to be out for blood – with one shopper seen berating the chef for parking his car outside a local store.
The seething local confronted Gordon about the way the car was parked and the size of it. The Hell’s Kitchen star kept his cool throughout.
Taking care of the brood: The chef is isolating on the coast with wife Tana and their five children
The man then walked off and Gordon got into his car clutching a small bag of shopping and a coffee.
It comes as locals in the West Country called for tougher action to be taken on people fleeing to their holiday homes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Second home owners were accused of sneaking into the area in the dead of night, and local authorities have now asked for road blocks to be put in place in order to stop people getting into tourist hot spots now on.
Last week’s drama: Cornish locals appear to be out for blood – with one shopper seen berating the chef for parking his car outside a local store
Villagers are worried Gordon may have brought the virus with him from London and want him ‘the hell out of Cornwall’ and have even threatened to expose his address if he doesn’t leave, The Sun reports.
In messages seen by the newspaper, nearby residents vented their frustration in a Facebook group called You Shouldn’t Be Here.
One user wrote: ‘The big s*** should take himself and his family the hell out of Cornwall.’
Another said: ‘Wealthy second homers think making a few quid means they are immune from the virus and any rules. They are arrogant at this best of times, this has shown how bad some of them are.’