Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is known for his no-nonsense approach on TV shows such as Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef, but it turns out he's also pretty strict at home too.
The 56-year-old and his wife Tana have five children together – Megan (24), twins Jack and Holly (23), Matilda, or Tilly (21), who took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2021 and Oscar, whose now three years old.
Recently Gordon accidentally hinted that the couple may have "one more on the way" in a chat with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden on Heart Breakfast.
If the couple do welcome another baby, the new bundle of joy will have some pretty strict rules to adhere to as they grow up.
Here are some of Gordon's brutal parenting rules as he stars in new cooking show Next Level Chef on ITV, including not leaving his fortune to his kids.
Not getting his inheritance
Gordon is worth an estimated £181million, according to wealth website Celebrity Net Worth, but he won't be leaving it to his kids.
Speaking to the Telegraph in 2017, the celebrity chef revealed that his children have to make their own way in life.
He said: "It's definitely not going to them, and that's not in a mean way, it's to not spoil them. The only thing I've agreed with Tana is that they get a 25% deposit on a flat, but not the whole flat."
He added that he's never really been "turned on about the money", and that has been reflective in the way he has raised his children.
Limits on pocket money
By now it's easy to see that Gordon is very strict when it comes to sharing his wealth with his kids. He doesn't hand out money freely, but instead there are strict limits.
He previously said: ""Meg's at university and has a budget of £100 a week; the others get about £50 a week and they have to pay for their own phones and their bus fare.
"The earlier you give them that responsibility to save for their own trainers and jeans, the better."
The kids also had to do housework for their pocket money, including making sure they tidy up after each dinner.
He added: "It's important they help set and clear the tables, it's important they cook, it's important they do their homework."
They have to work to get to the top
Gordon doesn't want his children to grow up spoilt, and that involves not giving them anything without them having to work for it.
In fact, if they want to get into the industry, he'd rather they worked for another chef than him.
The Kitchen Nightmares chef said on US radio: "I'm firm, I'm fair and I will give you everything I've got to get you to the very top. And that's it, no bulls**t. I take a lot of flak for being straight and honest, but I'm not worried about that f***ing snowflake generation.
He added: "It's like not employing the kids. I don't want the staff thinking, 'F**k it's Ramsay's kid, we can't tell them off'.
"You want to work in this business? You f**k off to another chef, learn something different and come back with something new to improve the business."
The kids have to fly economy
Even though their dad is a multi-millionaire, it doesn't mean the Ramsays are flying in private jets when they go on holiday.
On family holidays, Gordon and his wife Tana enjoy the luxuries of first class, but the children always sit in economy.
He told The Telegraph: "I turn left with Tana and they turn right and I say to the chief stewardess: 'Make sure those little f***ers don’t come anywhere near us, I want to sleep on this plane’.
"I worked my f***ing arse off to sit that close to the pilot and you appreciate it more when you've grafted for it."
Gordon later explained that he didn't want his children to sit in first class because he wanted to "keep it real".
No swearing in the home
It might surprise those who have watched Gordon, who is known for his foul-mouthed rants, on TV that swearing is banned in their household.
He told The Mirror: "Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results," explained Gordon.
"They know I've said bad words. I say it is an industry language. They don't swear. They don't walk around shouting the f-word."
Can't be vegetarian
Gordon has made it abundantly clear that he's not a fan of vegetarians, having controversially fed meat to an unsuspecting group on a TV show.
A Mirror reporter was recently so terrified by the celebrity chef she abandoned her vegetarian principles and ate some bacon when he told her to "taste as you go".
He once stated: "My biggest nightmare would be if the kids ever came up to me and said, 'Dad, I'm a vegetarian.' Then I would sit them on the fence and electrocute them."
Other rules
Gordon has shared several other rules the Ramsay children have to adhere to over the years.
For example, Gordon and Tana are vigilant when it comes to screen time. He previously told The Sun that their phones have to be left outside their doors at bedtime.
Being Ramsay's children, you'd think they would have their pick of the bunch when it comes to fancy restaurants. But Gordon told The Sun: "They don't go to my restaurants with their mates, it's Wagamama or Nando's."
He even has a say in who his children can or can't date – and the Beckhams are on the no-list.
When Tilly was training for Strictly Come Dancing, Gordon also revealed that he doesn't let his kids use personal trainers.
After doing a marathon, he explained: "And when we trained for the marathon and enlisted a trainer, we didn't give them access - you don't need a PT when you're 18."
Next Level Chef is on Wednesday, January 11, 9pm, ITV and ITVX.
