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Ella Scott
Marcus Wareing, former protégé of Gordon Ramsay, has detailed the real reason why he didn’t feature in the chef’s new Netflix series.
Becoming Gordon Ramsay, the six-part docuseries focusing on the 59-year-old’s ambitious 22 Bishopsgate project in London, debuted on Netflix on 18 February.
It featured his family alongside two of his executive chefs: Michael Howells and James Gooyear.
Both currently work at two of Ramsay’s restaurants in the skyscraper; Howells helms Lucky Cat while Goodyer heads up Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High, an intimate twelve-seat affair in the sky.
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Despite first becoming acquainted with the Kitchen Nightmares favourite during their tenure at the now-defunct Le Gavroche in 1993, Wareing, 55, failed to make an appearance - and now we know why.
After vacating his role at Le Gavroche, Wareing became Ramsay’s Sous Chef at Aubergine before later opening Pétrus by Gordon Ramsay.
The culinary connoisseurs were once so close that Wareing even asked the Hell’s Kitchen icon to be his best man at his wedding and later godfather to his eldest child.
However, in 2019, the father-of-three admitted in an interview with GQ that he purposely ‘picked the fight’ with his mentor in the late 2000s which subsequently ended their friendship.
“You must understand it was me who started it with Gordon,” he alleged.
“I picked a fight. I no longer wanted to be kept in a corner, moaning and feeling like I had nothing to offer his business. So I spoke up. And, well, it got nasty."
Despite their fall-out, reports confirmed that the pair had finally ‘buried the hatchet’ over dinner in February 2025.
The news came as they shared an image of themselves standing together in an unknown kitchen via Instagram.
Wareing claimed the meetup had been ‘a long time coming’ while Ramsay captioned the reconciliation ‘dinner with friends’.
The pair later posed for photographs at a celebration for Ramsay's Apple TV series, Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars. The event was held at Lucky Cat, 22 Bishopsgate in October 2025.
Despite their realignment taking place before Becoming Gordon Ramsay began filming, Wareing was reportedly not offered a guest spot.
“I’m sad I’m not in Gordon Ramsay’s Netflix documentary,” he admitted in a recent interview with The Times.
“I asked him, ‘Why not?’ He said, ‘You just came to the party too late.’”
Elsewhere in the chat, Wareing, who closed his Michelin-starred restaurant at the Berkeley hotel in 2023, opened up about a high-profile robbery that took place in 2019.
Police were called to the BBC chef’s Wimbledon mansion in October following reports of a large quantity of jewellery being stolen.
It’s understood that the gang, who were later jailed for 40 months, took his wife’s Cartier watch as well as a ‘beautiful gold Rolex’ that Ramsay gifted him for his 30th birthday.
“I didn’t realise how I felt about my watch collection until it was gone,” Wareing confessed.
“The burglars only went for watches and jewellery. iPads and computers all got left behind. It was horrible. I had two watches that were gifts from Gordon. They got caught because one of them was seen wearing a piece on social media.”