EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Gordon Ramsay leaves guests at Mayfair reception aghast after stuffing food into waiter's mouth

Gordon Ramsay is famed for his fiery temper, raging rants, and colourful insults on his reality TV shows.Yet his questionable behaviour is apparently not confined to the screen.I can disclose that the Hell’s Kitchen star appeared to force-feed a waiter with a canape at an awards ceremony this week.The incident happened at the Walpole British Luxury Awards at the Dorchester hotel in London’s Mayfair.The waiter, who appeared to be Asian and in his late 20s, was serving cone-shaped canapes and held the tray containing them with both hands.During the cocktail reception before the ceremony, the waiter offered Ramsay a canape. The TV star, who turned 60 this week, took one and, instead of eating it, thrust it into the mouth of the startled waiter.Fearful of dropping his tray, the waiter had no option but to try to eat it.Ramsay did not ask him beforehand if he wanted the canape or whether he had any allergies or special dietary requirements. I can disclose that Hell’s Kitchen star Gordon Ramsay, pictured with wife Tanya, appeared to force-feed a waiter with a canape at an awards ceremony this week, writes Richard EdenBefore moving away, the chef gave the waiter a thumbs-up signal with both hands. The waiter, who had his mouth full, could not respond.‘It was appalling behaviour and very disrespectful for him to do that,’ a guest tells me. ‘I was flabbergasted that he could treat someone like that.’The waiter, who does not want to be named, tells me: ‘I was embarrassed because we’re not supposed to eat while we’re serving guests. But what am I supposed to do when Gordon Ramsay forces you to eat a canape? I don’t know why he did that.’Ramsay was honoured with The Visionary award, recognising those whose skill and ambition transform their industry and the landscape of British luxury.His spokesman declines to comment on the incident, instead criticising me for reporting his behaviour. ‘A joyful evening celebrating incredible British brands, creators and makers that wave the flag for GB across the world and you focus on this. Shame on you.’Oh, great shot! Emma ditches balls for claysEmma Raducanu appears to have joined the country set. Britain’s former tennis No1 swapped her racket for a shotgun at a weekend in the Lake District.Wearing a Barbour jacket, Emma, 23, tried her hand at clay-pigeon shooting in Cumbria. ‘Timeout in the Lakes,’ she writes online.The star, who won the US Open in 2021, has not played tennis since June thanks to a serious stress fracture in her right leg.At least she had some happier news in her love life, enjoying a romance with 32-year-old public relations executive John Friend. Tennis star Emma Raducanu swapped her racket for a shotgun at a weekend in the Lakes Wearing a Barbour jacket, Emma, 23, tried her hand at clay-pigeon shooting in CumbriaThe Royal Family’s favourite rapper Tinie Tempah is in a bad temper. The cause of his ire? ‘Content creators’ who insist on filming themselves at the gym where Tempah, real name Patrick Okogwu, is working out. Asked what irks him most while training, he tells me: ‘Walking into the gym and seeing everyone’s phones.’ Speaking at the MITS Award 2026 at the Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair, he adds: ‘I respect gym influencers encouraging more people to keep fit, but seeing everyone’s phones... that’s kind of annoying.’ Shappi's unhappy gaffeComedienne Shappi Khorsandi, who was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at the age of 47, is demanding a refund for overpaying while using the railways because of her condition.‘You owe me £20,’ the former I’m A Celebrity contestant rages at Transport for London online. She explains that she bought a ticket from London to Reading, but because of her ADHD she accidentally also used her Apple Pay app to tap out at the ticket barrier, adding: ‘So I paid twice and it’s impossible to get a refund.’She adds: ‘I can live without £20, but how many £20s are you making off us neurodivergent people?’Bill lays into disrespectful Strictly starsBill Bailey, who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2020, is not amused by stars who don’t take the competition seriously.‘When I see a challenge, I want to throw myself into it out of professional pride and out of respect to the dancers as well,’ says the comedian, 61, who was paired up with professional Oti Mabuse, 36.‘They put in huge amounts of time and have sacrificed so much. So people showing up and going, “Anyone can do this”, I slightly felt it’s a bit disrespectful. It’s like when people say, “Comedy’s easy, isn’t it?”’ Bill Bailey, who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2020, is not amused by stars who don’t take the competition seriouslyMichael Portillo, who has enjoyed a flourishing second career as a presenter thanks to the BBC, clearly isn’t afraid to bite the hand that feeds him.The former Cabinet minister says the licence fee’s days are numbered. ‘It is morally unsustainable,’ he says in his one-man show, A Life of Two Halves, at Cadogan Hall in Chelsea, west London. ‘Why should it be supported by what is a tax when others [rival broadcasters] have to go to market?’ He adds: ‘The licence fee is dead.’Was the Goring good life to your taste Sir Keir?He led his party to what was, at the time, its worst election result since 1918 before consoling himself by trousering £1million a year thanks to directorships and a role with a US financial powerhouse.So Sir John Major can cope with the vertiginous prices at The Goring, the sumptuous hotel a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace, where an Eggs Drumkilbo starter is £45 and the finest wines cost thousands of pounds a bottle.But who was tucking into lunch with him on Monday?None other, I can disclose, than Sir Keir Starmer, who abruptly resigned from Parliament in September, having allowed his spokesman to say that he would be staying on.It’s the sort of flexibility that should serve Two Tier Keir well as he bids to keep himself in the style to which he became accustomed as PM, with No10 and Chequers at his disposal.