Gordon Ramsay has ended his 16-year feud with his former protégé Marcus Wareing as they are set to make a new BBC cookery show together.
The pair had spent nearly two decades bumping heads, with Marcus even saying he hoped he would never have to speak to Ramsay ‘for the rest of my life’.
But last year, the chefs buried the hatchet, reuniting for an amicable make-up dinner with both stars posting a photograph of them together in a mystery kitchen on social media.
Now, Gordon, 59, and Marcus, 53, have decided to team up on a new BBC Two daytime series, which has yet to receive a working title, according to The Sun.
Gordon’s production company is making the programme, which starts filming later this year, while Marcus will be the host.
Marcus told the publication: ‘This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside Gordon again.
Gordon Ramsay has ended his 16-year feud with his former protégé Marcus Wareing as they are set to make a new BBC cookery show together (pictured in October 2025)
The pair had spent nearly two decades bumping heads, with Marcus even saying he hoped he would never have to speak to Ramsay ‘for the rest of my life’ (pictured together in 2001)
‘It’s been many years since we last shared a kitchen, and I can’t wait to get started.’
Explaining the concept of the show, Gordon added: ‘It combines fantastic home cooking with extraordinary human stories and celebrates the kitchen as the heart of every home.’
The Daily Mail has contacted Gordon’s representative for further comment.
The chefs were once so close that Gordon was best man at Marcus’ wedding in 2000 and is godfather to his eldest child.
They worked together for 15 years, with Marcus considered Gordon’s protégé after working as sous chef at his Aubergine restaurant.
In 1999, they opened a joint venture, Pétrus, with Marcus as head chef. It earned two Michelin stars but was to be the undoing of their friendship.
In 2008, Marcus wanted to go solo and take over the lease at London’s Berkeley Hotel, sparking a legal fight. In the end, Gordon kept the Pétrus name and Marcus opened his own place at The Berkeley.
Marcus once admitted: ‘It was me who started it. I picked a fight. I no longer wanted to be kept in a corner, so I spoke up. And, well, it got nasty.’
The chefs were once so close that Gordon was best man at Marcus’ wedding in 2000 and is godfather to his eldest child
He retired from the restaurant game last year, but remains a judge on BBC’s MasterChef: The Professionals.
He previously detailed the spat during an interview with Weekend Magazine in 2011, explaining: ‘Gordon verbally kicked the s*** out of you. Then he would buy you a beer. He put me through mental torture.
‘I’d be first in in the morning, and I’d lock up at night. All day, there’d be Gordon being Gordon. It’s a wonder we all survived.’
The chef added that the pair came close to physical violence, adding: ‘B***dy close. Once, about six months before we finished, he came into the kitchen on a Saturday night. We had a conversation.’
In 2023, Marcus said their feud was ‘the best thing that ever happened to them.’
He admitted that his row with Gordon proved to be the making of them both, telling The Daily Mail’s Richard Eden it pushed him to find ‘another ambition’.
The father of three said: ‘It was the best thing that ever happened to both of us.
‘I wanted to be in his shoes and I can’t be in his shoes — they’re too big.
‘I knew I couldn’t fill them and I think I had another ambition and I had another goal. So I had to try.’
