When Gordon ejected food critic A. A. Gill along with his date, Joan Collins, from his restaurant,  Gill stated that "Ramsay is a wonderful chef, just a really second-rate human being." Ramsay admitted in his autobiography that he did not mind if Gill insulted his food, but a personal insult he was not going to tolerate. Ramsay has also had confrontations with his kitchen staff, including one incident that resulted in the pastry chef calling the police.

On a 2007 episode of Kitchen Nightmares, acid-tongued Gordon berated Joseph Cerniglia, owner of the Campania Eatery in North Fair Lawn, New Jersey, for incompetence. Gordon predicted that Cerniglia's business would “swim down the Hudson” was found floating lifelessly in that very river. In 2010, Cerniglia was found dead in the Hudson River after a suspected suicide. In July 02 2012 interview with The Wrap, Gordon commented that " When you get blamed for the sadness and deaths like that—individuals taking their own lives—it really hurts, because it’s a tragedy. But it’s also a very selfish thing to do—to jump off a bridge and to leave that restaurant and your family behind with all the mess. "

One way for Gordon to  to improve his image may be to  eat a little humble pie which we could serve him on his birthday while watching him in his film début in Love's Kitchen.(2011). Although Gordon could never eat humble pie when the term refers to refers to admitting a mistake and and facing the consequences for it, as an adventurous chef, he may have literally eaten humble pie. In fact, he chose the term for the title of his 2006 autobiography. 

In culinary terms, humble pie refers to variety of Cornish pasties that originally were made from deer and boar innards and eaten by the poor in medieval times. In later centuries, deer, boar, and sometimes beef was used. Humble is an early English term referring to the entrails (heart, liver, intestines) of animals.