Gordon Ramsay fainted in the delivery room when his son Oscar was born, despite his wife Tana banning him from being present at the births of their first four children
TV chef Gordon Ramsay fainted during the birth of his son as Ed Sheeran’s tunes serenaded the delivery room. The 58-year-old culinary star, who had previously been absent from the birthing room for his older children Megan, 26, twins Jack and Holly, 25, and Tilly, 23, due to wife Tana Ramsay’s wishes, was present for the arrival of their fifth child, Oscar.
However, the Kitchen Nightmares icon’s elation quickly turned to alarm when he passed out while cradling new-born Oscar, with Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ playing in the background.
On the Smartless podcast, Gordon revealed: “Let’s make one thing absolutely clear, my wife didn’t want me in there. First of all, she said, ‘I want my mum and your mum in there, you’re not going to see me in that state, that side of the curtain, get out of there.’
“That was her decision and I had to respect that decision. When I did final arrive in the theatre for our fifth baby I f****** collapsed like a wimp! I blacked out holding Oscar in the air.”
Gordon has been sharing some intense moments from the delivery room, recounting, “He was coming through the sun roof so there was a lot of commotion going on. They said, ‘What do you want to listen to?’ So I said, ‘Can you play Ed Sheeran?’
“So they started playing Ed, they turned up the volume, I can hear all these noises, all of a sudden I see two more doctors dive in, I look to the floor and there was blood everywhere. They popped him out and then they came straight over to me and I went, ‘Woah, woah, s***.’ I sat back and I collapsed like a f****** idiot.”
The celebrity chef and his wife Tana are basking in the joys of parenthood once more with their little ones Oscar and Jesse James, who joined the family in 2023.
Gordon, a three Michelin star culinary maestro, is keen on instilling strong work values in his children, ensuring they understand the importance of hard graft rather than relying on their privileged background.
Proud of his older children’s diverse career choices, Gordon does admit to a twinge of disappointment that his daughter Tilly, aspiring to be a chef, opted for training at Ireland’s Ballymaloe Cookery School instead of one of his own kitchens.
Gordon emphasised the importance of balance in life, saying, “Balance is critical. Every time we were filming throughout the US the kids would come with us and then we were take them out of school two weeks early, and they put them back two weeks late, so we would do the filming schedules around the shooting schedules.
“It’s a lot easier now, we had four amazing kids and then Tana and I has this crazy idea to go back for more. So there’s quite a big gap. Megan, she’s our eldest, she’s 26, she’s an incredible police officer back in London.
“Then we have the twins who are 25; Jack is a Royal Marines Commando, Holly is in to her fashion. And then there’s Matilda, who is 23, who has just come back from culinary school, would you believe, a beautiful school called Ballymaloe.
“I am a little bit miffed that she didn’t ask me to train her and she’s gone off elsewhere. She’s seen the shows, that’s the problem! You’ve got to give them the values, and instil those values, they can’t depend on mum and dad.”
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