London - Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay won a libel action on Tuesday against a newspaper that accused him of faking scenes on his reality television show.
The Evening Standard newspaper claimed in November that parts of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - in which the chef helps salvage failing restaurants - had been exaggerated to make an average restaurant look like a health hazard.
It also claimed programme makers deliberately installed an incompetent chef at Bonaparte's, a struggling bistro in northern England that featured in one episode.
Ramsay's lawyer, Keith Schilling, told a judge at London's High Court that the claims were false.
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"No scenes had been faked, the kitchen was indeed untidy and a health hazard, the restaurant was already in financial difficulty before the programme was filmed and the chef was not installed by the claimants," Schilling said.
The newspaper's lawyer, Adam Cannon, said the Evening Standard now accepted that the claims were untrue.
The newspaper's publisher, Associated Newspapers, agreed to print an apology and pay £75 000 (about R975 000) in damages to Ramsay and the makers of his programme.
"I won't let people write anything they want to about me," said Ramsay, a Michelin-starred chef famous for his foul-mouthed outbursts.
"Even I have limits and on this occasion the line was crossed. I am satisfied with today's apology and am looking forward to future series of Kitchen Nightmares." - Sapa-AP
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