Gordon Ramsay's reality Hell: Real 'Kitchen Nightmares'

By Stone Martindale Jun 20, 2007, 23:32 GMT

Gordon Ramsay - - London, England © Photorazzi

Chef Gordon Ramsay is under the heat lamp these days.

A former New York restaurant manager can't take it anymore, and is suing the Scottish born chef in New York.

"Kitchen Nightmares" is a version of Ramsay's epicurean themed reality shows, where the volatile cook attempts to save failing restaurants in a bid to put them back on the track.

It has been a successful show in Britain, and is due to debut in the United States in September on the FOX network.

According to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Martin Hyde, the ex-general manager of Indian-American eatery Dillon's, has sued Ramsay on Tuesday, accusing him of faking scenes for an upcoming Fox reality series, reports Reuters.

Hyde alleged that Ramsay "lied about finding spoiled meat, used a defective chair as a prop to suggest that Dillon's furniture was of poor quality and hired actors to act as customers so it would appear that the restaurant was busy at the end of the week," reports E! Online's Sarah Hall.

The King of the F-bombs also caused emotional duress to Hyde.

Hyde, if he gets his way in court, will keep you from seeing this premiere show on FOX, his court order demands the show not air and, of course, millions of dollars in damages.

Ramsay and Fox have declined to comment on the situation.

Last year Ramsay successfully sued London's Evening Standard for libel over a report that alleged he had manipulated scenes for the British version of Kitchen Nightmares. He walked away with $150,000 and court costs.

"I won't let people write anything they want to about me," Ramsay said.  "We have never done anything in a cynical fake way."

Ronnie-busted in Indonesia

This has been a very tough year for Ramsay.  His brother Ronald, no stranger to being in the news for the wrong reasons, was arrested in Indonesia for heroin possession.

Ronnie-busted in Indonesia

Ronald "spat and swore at reporters" last Thursday on the Indonesian resort island Bali during the first day of his trial for heroine possession, the U.K.'s Daily Express reported Friday. 

This is not the place to get caught with drugs as Indonesian prisons are unforgiving.  Those found guilty of drug trafficking face an even stiffer sentence and are "routinely put to death," according to the Express.

"I will seek as short a sentence as possible... months," Ronald's defense lawyer Erwin Sire-gar told the Express.

The 39-year-old brother of Chef Ramsay was found with 100 milligrams of heroine in his pocket when approached by police outside a Bali supermarket in February, the Express reported.