Sarah Symonds accuses Gordon Ramsay of whitewashing as six-part Being Gordon Ramsay drops
sarah symonds has accused Gordon Ramsay’s new six-part Netflix documentary of being a "totally fake" portrait of the chef, saying the series glosses over his past as it follows his bid to open multiple restaurants at London’s 22 Bishopsgate and presents intimate family scenes.
Sarah Symonds says the series is “totally fake”
sarah symonds, 56, calls the documentary’s title "totally fake" and says the show is "misleading and disingenuous, " describing the finished series as "a glossed over, rehabilitated, glow-up version of a bully, cheat, liar and serial philanderer. " She says she has been left traumatised by the alleged affair and the fallout and that seeing the series — which the production promotes as unflinchingly honest — made her "so angry. "
Ramsay frames Tana as his "foundation" in the six-part series
The six-part series Being Gordon Ramsay follows Ramsay as he develops five new dining concepts inside 22 Bishopsgate and crosses the Atlantic to include locations such as Hell's Kitchen Las Vegas. In the series Ramsay, described in one context as 59 and in another as 57, calls his wife Tana the "foundation" who stood alongside him through their near 30-year marriage and says he regretted work commitments that kept him away from their children during their early years, while insisting they have always been the most important thing in his life.
What the documentary shows about the restaurant rollout at 22 Bishopsgate
The series depicts the practical and design work behind launching multiple venues at once at 22 Bishopsgate: what one reviewer called "six hours of advertising yourself on Netflix" as Ramsay attempts to open what is jokingly described as "seven billion (five, but it feels like seven billion)" restaurants on the tower’s top floors. Specific concepts shown include a 60-seat rooftop garden with a retractable roof, a 250-seater Asian-inflected restaurant called Lucky Cat, a Bread Street Kitchen brasserie and a culinary school. The camera lingers on fine details — menu tastings where a rum baba must not be too small or it won't aerate properly, prototype aprons with pockets removed because wait staff fill them and look scruffy, and a veto on leather seating because it was taking up space.
Why Megan and Jack do not appear, and the family camera access
The series features several of Ramsay’s friends, his wife and most of his six children, but two older children — Megan and Jack — do not appear on camera. Ramsay explains that Megan works as a police officer and that security rules make filming unsuitable for her; he jokes that she warned him not to be photographed with his phone out at a traffic light. He said Jack is a "busy boy" in the forces and that for safety reasons "they can't be anywhere near that. " In other material tied to the series, Ramsay has publicly marked family milestones: in 2019 he posted a photo of Megan in her graduation gown praising her degree from Oxford Brookes, and in 2020 he posted an image of Jack in uniform to mark his joining the Royal Marines.
Which children appear, and a note on conflicting age reports
The documentary opens with a family scene of Ramsay and Tana’s youngest children having pancakes; Ramsay criticises the pancakes as too thick and American-style rather than the crepes he prefers, while Tana tells him, "Darling, could you just give it a rest?" The show includes running and play with the little ones, wedding and engagement planning and moments buying inaugural chef whites with older children. There are glimpses of Holly at her engagement party in London with Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty and his mother Caroline, and Tilly appears most among the older siblings, including a scene of Ramsay dropping her off at culinary school; the two youngest children make regular appearances.
There are discrepancies in age listings across published pieces: one set lists Megan 27, twins Holly and Jack 25, Matilda 23, Oscar six and Jessie James 18 months; another lists Megan 27, twins Jack and Holly 26, Tilly 24, Oscar six and Jesse two. Sources in the provided context also differ on Ramsay’s age (listed as 59 in one piece and 57 in another). Where ages differ, the context is unclear on which set is definitive.
Sarah Symonds has also accused Ramsay of living a double life "as a single man" during the years she knew him and said he always "acted like a single man, a man about town, " adding that he was "always available and always at the same social venues late at night as me" with "the swagger and confidence of a man with no responsibilities. " Ramsay has long denied having had an affair.
Being Gordon Ramsay is available to stream now on Netflix and spans six episodes; viewers can watch the full release online, which one context notes dropped on Wednesday, 18 February. A separate piece tied to the coverage carried timestamps 07: 39 GMT 22 Feb 2026, updated 13: 20 GMT 22 Feb 2026 and the byline Richard Simpson.
