Grouchy, foul-mouthed UK chef Gordon Ramsey, whose FOX reality show “Kitchen Nightmares” has made me afraid to eat in restaurants, is hopping mad about claims by News of the World that he has been having a seven-year-affair with a so-called professional mistress. NOTW ran a very juicy story yesterday, claming that Ramsey has been involved with a woman named Sarah Symonds for the past seven years. Symonds has made a name for herself in the UK as a “professional mistress,” even writing a book instructing women on how to have an affair with a married man.

TV CHEF Gordon Ramsay is cheating on his devoted wife Tana, the News of the World can reveal.

The F-Word star—who revels in his family man image—began his affair with blonde Sarah Symonds seven years ago.

This week they met for sex at a London hotel. Hours earlier, she made a trip to Soho and bought legal sex drugs for their tryst. Just hours earlier he had sent lover Symonds to London’s Soho to buy the sex drug amyl nitrate. The liaison was the latest in an affair spanning seven years which flies in the face of his carefully constructed family man image.

The 42-year-old chef has become a multi-millionaire promoting “Brand Ramsay” as a loving husband and father of four. During the time he has been sleeping with Symonds, he has made numerous claims about his fidelity to his devoted wife of 12 years Tana, 33. He has described her as “the only woman who can turn me on . . . Tana is my wife, my lover and the person I want in my bed and in my arms every night.”

In 2006 Ramsay was voted Celebrity Father Of The Year and in 2007 the Ramsays were named Celebrity Family Of The Year. Fans are used to seeing his children, aged from five to nine, appearing on his TV shows and in magazine interviews.

Ramsay’s latest assignation with Symonds came on Thursday, at the Marriott Hotel off London’s Grosvenor Square. One of his most popular restaurants, Maze, adjoins it.

She had caught the train to London from Newport, south Wales, and took a cab to the five-star hotel where she checked into £390-a-night Room 106 on the first floor.

At around 4.30pm, she left and travelled to Soho where she spent ten minutes browsing a sex shop called Simply Pleasure. She spent £10 on three small yellow bottles of amyl nitrate, branded Rave and Rush. Amyl nitrates—also known as “poppers”—are not illegal.

Users claim they heighten sexual pleasure by relaxing muscles and increasing heart rate.

The News of the World was told: “Sarah said Gordon had specifically asked her to go to Soho and get him some poppers for their romp. He likes the buzz.”

…He and Symonds first met in 2001 at London’s Chinawhite nightclub, just a few months after she had revealed her affair with top Tory and author Jeffrey Archer.

The News of the World was told: “Ramsay and Sarah exchanged mobile phone numbers and became lovers just a few weeks later. So much for him being true to his wife.”

The pair continued to meet on and off for secret sex in both London and Los Angeles after Symonds moved there in 2003.

The affair came to a temporary halt in 2004 but started up again after Ramsay took his family on holiday to LA in August 2007, ironically about the time the Ramsays were being hailed as Celebrity Family Of The Year. The News of the World was told: “He’d taken Tana and their kids to visit their friends David and Victoria Beckham.

“But during that trip he contacted Sarah and promised he’d get back in touch properly when he was back in LA on his own without his family.

“He was true to his word, and called Sarah again about three months later when he was in LA filming Hell’s Kitchen on his own, and they rekindled their affair.

“Gordon twice brought Sarah to the Hell’s Kitchen set in LA where she was one of the audience.”

[From News of the World]

The article also includes grainy photos of Ramsey leaving a hotel, supposedly after the “75-minute tryst.” Sarah Symonds is known in the UK for her affair with politician Jeffrey Archer. She appeared on Oprah earlier this year to promote her book, “Having an Affair?” The book gives women “helpful hints” on how t become the other woman. She’s also a spokesperson for the AshleyMadison web site, a dating site specifically for married people looking to have an affair. She sounds like a real treat. Anyway, Ramsey is reportedly fuming over this story and is looking into filing a lawsuit against NOTW.

Gordon Ramsay is reportedly considering legal action after it was alleged he had been conducting a seven-year affair with a ‘professional mistress’. Britain’s Daily Telegraph quoted a source close to Ramsay and his wife of 12 years Tana, as saying they were considering suing tabloid News of the World, which ran the front page allegations.

[From Stuff magazine]

According to the libel laws in Britain, if someone sues for libel, it’s the defendant’s responsibility to prove that the claims are factual. I sure hope Gordon Ramsey considers this before moving forward with the suit. If there is any truth to this story at all, he could wind up looking pretty bad. Here in the US, his “family man” side hasn’t been touted very much – I didn’t even know he was married. But in the UK, his reputation could be ruined

Gordon Ramsay and his wife Tana are shown pose for pictures outside their house in Clapham, South London yesterday after the allegations of an affair were made public. Credit: Fame Pictures