LEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay revealed to mistress Sarah Symonds that he had TWO other lovers.
The married TV star, who this week denied cheating, confessed to extra flings during his seven-year affair with Sarah - who today tells her sensational story.
"I was his confidante - more than a mistress," she says. "He even called me his `soulmate`."
Ramsay’s mistress today exposes astonishing details of their affair—and tells how he also cheated on wife Tana with a SECOND lover AND a woman he met through his Hell’s Kitchen show.
In her own revealing testimony, blonde author Sarah Symonds destroys the foul-mouthed star’s self-styled family man image—and his denial of their secret seven- year relationship.
She reveals how the world-famous cook thrilled to the risks they took to have sex behind Tana’s back—even brazenly intoducing her to his wife. And she tells how they got so close he even called her his soulmate.
“But enough is enough,” says 38-year-old Sarah. “He should be on his knees eating humble pie—but instead he’s lying. He needs to refresh his memory and read my diaries.”
Last week Ramsay, 42, tried to brush aside our revelations of his long affair with Sarah during a BBC cookery demonstration attended by his wife and mother. He told the audience: “I didn’t do it! Mum, I love you.”
But today Sarah tells the TRUTH about just how he DID do it.
“Gordon has his PR team working round the clock, trying desperately to protect Brand Ramsay and this image of him as the ultimate family man,” she says. “But he’s a complete hypocrite, and I can’t believe he’s been getting away with it for so long.
“Not only has he been cheating on Tana with ME but he told me he had another regular mistress in Denmark.
“He said she is a writer and is married too. They’d met after he’d done a book signing over there and that they’d had sex after that and continued from there.
“He also told me he’d had sex with a girl after a Hell’s Kitchen wrap party. He told me that it was a one-nighter four years ago in LA.
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“I was his confidante—more than a mistress. He even called me his ‘soulmate’. I was happy with that.”
The Welsh beauty—who had a fling with shamed top Tory Jeffrey Archer and then kissed and told—admits she’s no angel herself. Her reputation as a professional mistress was cemented by her book Having An Affair? A Handbook For The Other Woman— which she says Ramsay loved and promised to promote.
When she met Ramsay at London club Chinawhite in October 2001 she was under no illusion about what he wanted. The attraction was mutual.
“Gordon was just about to open his restaurant in Claridges. I was working in the hospitality business,” says Sarah. “He found me physically and mentally attractive. I thought he had charisma. When he asked for my number I gladly gave it to him even though I knew he was married from the publicity he’d done. He started calling me often. His marriage was unhappy. Things were so bad he was contemplating getting an apartment with a friend.”
In December 2001, they had sex for the first time at Sarah’s Marble Arch flat after a night at Chinawhite. She says: “Gordon was with one of his chef employees and they came back to my flat with my friends.
“After an hour all the others left and Gordon and I had sex in the bedroom. I was flattered that he wanted to be with me. Just before 6am, he left to open up his restaurant.”
A couple of days later, Sarah picked up a copy of Hello! and read a glowing piece from publicity-seeking Ramsay featuring Tana, 33, introducing their fourth child and detailing their IVF nightmare. It made her think what a rat he was—but not enough to want to end the affair. “I should have kicked him out of my life then. Stupidly I didn’t,” she says. “But I wasn’t seeing Gordon exclusively. I saw others as well.” On January 28 2002 they met again for sex. Sarah noted in her diary that she had spoken to Gordon on the phone.
She says: “Gordon came round to my Marble Arch apartment that night, and we had sex a second time. He was so gentle. He wasn’t at all the aggressive man you see on TV.
“He stayed longer than he did the first time—and I remember wishing I had more food in the house because he said he could kill for a ham sandwich before we had sex.”
A few months later, Ramsay demonstrated his love of living dangerously—by introducing his secret new lover to his wife at the opening of The Connaught—then his new restaurant.
“I’d already met her by chance at David and Victoria Beckham’s pre- World Cup party in May 2002 where I was w