Marco Pierre White's 'triviliasing' remark on Gordon Ramsay feud is like 'HR meeting gone wrong'

Marco Pierre White can be credited with a plethora of achievements: revolutionising British gastronomy, becoming the youngest chef to ever earn three Michelin stars, and serving as Gordon Ramsay’s former mentor.

The fiery pair, who worked together in the 1980s at Harvey in Wandsworth, were previously embroiled in a terrible feud, with White brazenly claiming in a 2006 interview that he would ‘never’ speak to his ‘monster’ protegeé again.

“I gave him his first break in the business, and I believe strongly in being loyal to people who have helped you. Is that strange? I don’t believe it is. Several things happened that I found completely unacceptable,” he told the Telegraph at the time.

Meanwhile, Ramsay has called his ex-tutor an ‘intimidating’ tour de force who allegedly made him cry during training.

Their feud reached a breaking point when the celebrity chef crashed White’s wedding to his wife, Mati, with a camera crew in tow - ‘disgusting’ behaviour which took place without permission from either the bride or the groom.

After years of exchanging blows, the Hell’s Kitchen star reached out to the revolutionary chef during the COVID-19 lockdown to apologise for his past actions.

“Everybody falls out somewhere down the line. It’s just how you make up. That’s the most important thing,” Ramsay said, as per The Express.

“So, I’ve got so much respect for that man. He gave me so much at such a young age, and is still a guiding light.”

In a new interview with documentary maker Louis Theroux, White has lifted the lid on whether or not he actually did make Ramsay bubble up in the kitchen.

After hearing some of the comments the restaurateur had made about him in the past, White quipped that, actually, his ex-colleague ‘made himself cry’.

“He was chopping onions at the time, Louis,” he alleged.

In response, Theroux said: “See, that's trivialising because he wasn’t chopping onions.”

White replied, claiming the Netflix favourite wasn’t ‘there’ in the kitchen when the alleged incident took place.

Fans of the famous pair have weighed in on Theroux and White’s words, with one typing: “This is like a HR meeting gone wrong ‘he made himself cry’ lol.”

“That ‘you weren't there’ was brilliant,” a second said.

Someone else responded: “In the Netflix doc on Gordon they show him at home and there is a large photo of Marco on display - there is obviously mutual respect and love at this point.”

Another wrote: “Marco just has a way with words that wins me over every time.”

When asked if he believed himself accountable for creating the ‘Ramsay persona’ that we all know and love, the gastronomy expert said that he could not be ‘held responsble’.

“I can’t be. Gordon is his own creation like I’m my own creation. You’re your own creation. We’re responsible for our own journeys in life, Louis.

“And at the end of the day, Gordon and I go back… 40 years.”

White also confirmed that he and his star pupil were now on ‘friendly’ terms.

“When the press attacked my son the other week, Gordon sent me the most beautiful text. So the Gordon Ramsay the press wan’t to talk about is not the Gordon Ramsay I know,” he added, referring to one of his children, either Marco Pierre Jnr, 30, or Luciano, 32.

Elsewhere in the interview, White revealed that he and Ramsay are working together on a new TV show.

The Mirror reported it will be called The Rock N Roll Chef, with the F Word chef on producer duties and White stepping in to be the host.