Hell’s Kitchen chef Gordon Ramsay has cancelled all engagements to be at his mother’s bedside after her recent heart attack.

Despite his turbulent upbringing, a heroin addict brother and an abusive father, The F Word star Ramsay, 43, remains close to his social worker mum Helen Cosgrove. ‘My mother is my bedrock, my foundation in life and, along with my wife Tana and my daughters, equally the most important woman in my life,’ says the dad-of-four. T get my determination from her,’ he adds. ‘My mother has never once taken advantage of my success – I’d like to do more for her, but she won’t let me.’ While the chef has a fiery reputation, his mum reckons that behind the scenes he is just ‘a gentle giant’. ‘He’ll always finish a call by saying: “I love you,” and I say it back,’ she added in a recent interview.