Embarrassment for Gordon Ramsay as 'mistress' Sarah Symonds appears on U.S Hell's Kitchen (2024)

Embarrassment for Gordon Ramsay as 'mistress' Sarah Symonds appears on his U.S Hell's Kitchen

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 19:31, 15 May 2009

A professional mistress alleged to have had an affair with Gordon Ramsay has made a surprise appearance on the season finale of Hell’s Kitchen.

Sarah Symonds popped up last night on the chef's TV show which was recorded during the exact period she claimed the two were having a fling.

She is only seen for a few seconds before the camera cuts away, but the sighting will be an embarrassment for the beleaguered chef - of course it also proves he doesn't have much involvement in the editing process.

Wearing a tight leopard-print top, she was seen with a near-empty plate on the reality show’s Los Angeles set.

Ms Symonds, then 38, dined alone and dutifully filled out cards giving feedback to the wannabe chefs.

She finished her notes and said 'OK' before the camera cut to another scene.

Her appearance is likely to be of concern of Ramsay’s PR team and especially his wife, Tana.

It is claimed Ms Symonds and Ramsay had a seven-year affair. The show filmed in January 2008.

She alleged they met up again on a number of occasions until November last year, which the hot-headed father-of-four denies.

They were pictured in a Sunday newspaper separately leaving a Grosvenor Square hotel after a 75-minute meeting.

Ms Symonds, a PR and marketing executive from Newport in Wales, has made a career from sleeping with other people’s husbands.

In 2001, she had an affair with disgraced ex-Tory minister Lord Archer.

Last year, she wrote Having an Affair? A Handbook for the Other Woman.

In the first edition, she told of a 'friend' who had an affair with a 'world-famous TV chef, well-known...for both his bad language and his good food'.

She wrote: 'He complained to my friend that things weren’t going well between him and his wife and that he was made to sleep in the basem*nt.'

A spokeswoman for Ramsay declined to comment.