Ramsay’s £4m gift to loyal Tana
They say that behind every successful man there is a strong, wise and hard- working woman. But, in the case of fiery chef Gordon Ramsay’s wife Tana, you can add ‘ultra-loyal’ to that heady list of adjectives.
With that in mind, Ramsay appears to have given his wife a multi-millionpound reward for her years of unwavering support — in the face of fairly hefty obstacles — by massively upping her stake in his business.
Newly updated shareholder records of Kevalake — the parent company Ramsay uses to run his global empire of restaurants — reveal that Tana’s shareholding in the business has increased from one share to 31,331.
This means Tana’s stake could now be worth as much as £4.1 million, with Ramsay’s amounting to £23 million.
It is certainly an intriguing development for the publicity prone couple, whose 19-year marriage has suffered more ups and downs than a poorly timed souffle.
In 2008, it was alleged that Ramsay, 48, had been unfaithful to his wife with ‘ professional mistress’ Sarah Symonds.
Although Symonds claimed to have conducted a seven-year affair with the chef, Tana, now 41, chose to ignore the allegations and stood by him.
More recently, Ramsay was involved in a messy — and highly protracted — legal battle with Tana’s father, Chris hutcheson, who was also his business partner. Ramsay accused hutcheson of siphoning off £ 1.4 million of company money to fund a secret second family and multiple mistresses, and to maintain his high-rolling, philanderering lifestyle, which his father-in-law denied.
The saga resulted in Tana becoming estranged from her family after taking her husband’s side in the row.
Five years ago, hutcheson’s wife, Greta, wrote to her daughter: ‘Tana, you are not welcome anywhere near our door. I cannot believe that you have done this to your father. Until you dispose of that man, you are not welcome back.’