Gordon Ramsay is the latest British celebrity to agree to a Netflix documentary. It’s almost as if Prince Harry and Meghan influenced several generations of British people to tell their stories to Netflix, right? But I digress. This doc is called Being Gordon Ramsay, and it’s apparently very heavy on Gordon’s marriage to his wife Tana and their six children. Their oldest child is 27, their youngest is two. Bonkers. This documentary has also given Gordon and Tana a chance to talk about their daughter’s recent wedding to Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty. Adam and Holly Ramsay married over the holidays under a cloud of tabloid controversy. You see, Peaty fell out with his family before the wedding, and he didn’t invite his parents or his extended fam to his wedding. Adam also let it be known that he feels very accepted by the Ramsay family, and that the estrangement with his family is not Gordon, Tana or Holly’s fault. That didn’t stop Adam’s family from bad-mouthing Adam and the Ramsays in multiple interviews though. Well, now Gordon and Tana are talking about all of that with the Daily Mail:

On Holly and Adam’s wedding: ‘Just before we got into the car on the morning of the wedding, that was the first time I saw Holly in her dress,’ remembers Gordon. ‘I burst into tears. Your little girl is a woman and she’s moments away from walking down the aisle. You have to realise she has a huge love in her life…. The 45-minute drive was a beautiful father-daughter moment. We were just talking, in this little cocoon. Then we got to Bath Abbey, the car door opened and I felt like we were in the middle of Wembley Stadium with England playing Scotland. The screaming, the shouting.’

Walking Holly down the aisle: The doors of the Abbey shut behind them, there was quiet and calm, but Holly had to stop him rushing. ‘She told me to slow down twice. I have size 15 feet, they do walk very fast. I don’t do anything slow, ask Tana.’ He gives his wife a cheeky look. She rolls her eyes. ‘Then I looked up and saw Adam waiting. He looked like he’d just come out of a pool after a race, he was sobbing and dripping. I gave Adam a hug. He watered my beautiful carnation with his tears. I lifted up Holly’s veil, then handed her hand to him. I went and sat down and started crying like a baby.’ Why? ‘The build-up of emotion. Just like any kitchen, I wanted it perfect for Holly, Adam, Tana and every guest. The pressure was insane.’

On Adam’s family estrangement: Adam Peaty’s sister Bethany was a bridesmaid, but his mother, father and the rest of his close family were not there, having been uninvited after an argument over Holly’s hen night became public. ‘I was told we were accused of saying inappropriate things,’ says Gordon now about his speech, and it is true that Adam’s mum Caroline was reported to have taken offence at what she saw as an unfavourable comparison with Tana. ‘Nothing at all was said that was ­inappropriate, I promise you,’ insists Gordon. ‘I was very warm, very witty. I talked about when they first met. I was nervous, hearing the words no father would ever want to hear, “Your daughter’s gone on a date with the world’s best breast-stroker. We knew something big was going on when she came home and all we could smell was chlorine.”’

More on the Peaty estrangement: How does he feel about the continuing complaints from Adam’s mother that she and his father have been shunned? ‘It’s just upsetting,’ says Gordon, who has not responded in person until now. ‘It’s all self-inflicted from their side, because we’ve done nothing – none of what you’ve read: no rudeness, no ignorance – we welcomed them. We sent a chauffeur-driven car for them to come to the engagement party and treated them like royalty. So to get that barrage of press was very hurtful. Tana took it very seriously.’

Whether the family issues will be resolved: ‘I would like to go up to Nottingham with Tana and see them and draw a line in the sand,’ he says. ‘It was Adam and Holly’s wishes for them not to attend and so we had to respect that. There’s stuff they need to sort out as parents. That’s nothing to do with Tana and me. But we are very mindful we want to move on and allow Holly and Adam to continue starting their lives together.’ Tana says: ‘We’ve had fallouts within my family, there are no winners. I’m so grateful we got through mine and have happy relationships again.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I agree that it’s not really about Gordon and Tana, and I actually think Gordon and Tana have every right to feel hurt and disrespected by what the Peatys have done and said. I’m not the biggest Gordon Ramsay fan, but it feels like he genuinely welcomed Adam into the family and he wants the best for Adam and Holly. It speaks volumes that Adam’s parents spent months running to the tabloids to complain about this, that and the other. It speaks volumes that the Peatys were still loudly complaining and trying to ruin Adam and Holly’s wedding day.

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