Not a sausage. That is what Gordon Ramsay had when he started out as a chef, working 16-hour days, 6 days a week. When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, he didn’t think he’d be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that he’d be head of a business empire. But he is and he did. Here’s how.

“In the beginning there was nothing.

Not a sausage penniless, broke, fucking nothing and although, at a certain age, that didnt matter hugely, there came a time when hand-me-downs, cast-offs and football boots of odd sizes all pointed to a problem that seemed to have afflicted me, my mum, my sisters, Ronnie and the whole lot of us. It was as though we had been dealt the all-time dysfunctional poker hand.

I wish I could say that, from this point on, the penny dropped and I decided to do something about it, but it wasnt like that. It would take years before the lessons of life, business and money began to click into place before, as they say, I had a pot to piss in.

This is the story of how those lessons were learned.”

This is Gordon Ramsay at his raw, rugged best. PLAYING WITH FIRE is the amazing story of Gordons journey from sous-chef to superstar. In his no-holds-barred style, Gordon shares his passion for risk and adventure and his hard-won success secrets.