Gordon Ramsay Lands First Emmy Nomination

A counterpart to the hugely successful MasterChef series, MasterChef Junior sees young aspiring home cooks compete for the title of MasterChef Junior under the guidance of host and judge of the series, Gordon Ramsay. Gordon landed his first ever Emmy nomination for his work in the series this year in an episode featuring the much loved Muppets.

No stranger to the small screen, the Emmy nomination is a long time coming but is particularly important with Ramsay’s continuous efforts to instill the timeless values of cooking into today’s youth.

“For me, it’s getting a message across to America that cooking is as important as geography, history, Latin, and is a skill that we’ve got to stop ignoring,” says the host and executive producer. “I, personally, get [frustrated] when these young kids get bad eating habits - it’s not them, it’s their parents. Working closely with the kids to re-educate their parents has been, for me, the strongest message of the last five years”.

Speaking about the show’s young contestants, the father of four said “when these kids face issues, all I’m trying to instruct them is to conjure up a solution. I’s not a problem - give me a solution”. “What I try to explain to them the minute they walk into that arena is that there’s no teacher, no mum and dad. It’s you and me, and we’re going to go up and down, but you’re going to leave a better person”.

The Annual Primetime Emmy Awards take place on September 17th and the Creative Arts Emmy’s on September 9th, where Ramsay will compete against fellow TV hosts Alex Baldwin, W. Kamau Bell, RuPaul Charles, Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn and Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg in the category of Outstanding Host for a Reality or Realty-Competition Program.