50 points

It amazes me how many people still don’t realize his asshole schtick is just him playing a character

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Watch him on master chef junior and you can see how well he treats the kids and how encouraging he is. Even on master chef he’s a lot less of an asshole vs hotel hell or hells kitchen

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Exactly. In the UK version he was not an angry, shouty cunt. That was added for the US show.

It’s as if people think The Rock was actually the heel he played in WWE or Anthony Hopkins is actually a cannibal who kills and eats people.

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2 points

Wait. Hold on. Are you telling me THAT one isn’t true?

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I understand that but that character is so offputting to me that I simply can’t watch.

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36 points

Puts on a show for the American audiences. Otherwise seems okay.

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This is it. His shows are overproduced for Americans, using cheap effects and dramatization for terrible reality TV. So I never watch him.

I think it’d be a lot different if I saw a version that was just what happened. Like kitchen nightmares but without all of the dramatics. That I would watch all the time. So of course they don’t make it.

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He did some sort of traveling-around-the-world-and-cooking-local-dishes documentary. Watch it for yourself, I personally didn’t like his personality and his picky character. And he tanks almost every local dish (hilarious reaction by the lao monks…they did not like what he had prepared for them).

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Is it really for American audiences? He seems the same to me in the UK Kitchen Nightmares

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In the U.K. he’s way less hard on folks then in the states. Of course, it could also be they’re way less combative. No Amy’s Baking Companies in the U.K. I don’t think.

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Spot on. Him on TV playing into his character seems like a POS. But from some of his other stuff he seems like a decent dude who acknowledges he doesn’t know everything.

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20 points

I think he amassed a fortune legitimizing workplace abuse.

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I can’t stand him but I don’t find any entertainment from people being assholes.

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A British chef? Oxymoron much?

Brits are going to teach the world about FOOD? Do they even know what spices are? Does ANYONE else think BEANS on TOAST is GOOD?

Next we’ll get some Jamaican bobsledders, one-handed clapping, military intelligence and accurate estimates.

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Hey! I saw a documentary about those guys one time.

They managed to stay cool running around everywhere.

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Ah the british: know how to use spices, built a globe spanning empire to acquire them and stereotypically dont use most of them.

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