Gordon Ramsay has given a bizarre explanation for his “hair nightmare”.
The celebrity chef was pictured earlier this month with a hideously puffy face, which he apparently claimed was just down to an “horrific” infection and allergic reaction to a horse, the Daily Mail reported.
But the swelling was widely thought to be the result of Gordon Ramsay’s £30,000 hair transplant.
Photos of Gordon Ramsay, star of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, leaving a Los Angeles surgery with a medical cap over his head, fuelled the speculation.
The Daily Mail wrote that Ramsay, 44, has since developed his story, telling reporters that the swelling occurred because of a scuffle with gangsters in Costa Rica, who poured gasoline all over him.
He said: “I had petrol doused, gasoline poured all over my hair and I had a horrific infection.
“It certainly didn’t cause my hair to be falling out.”
Gordon Ramsay was in Costa Rica filming Channel 4’s Big Fish Fight series for UK television, in which he was investigating the illegal trade in shark fins.
It was while in Costa Rica that he had the confrontation with the heavily armed gangsters, he said.
Ramsay added: ‘I was in Napa for Christmas literally two weeks after the shoot and went horseback riding with the kids and had a horrendous allergic reaction to the horse, combined with the problems I had with my scalp – so it was just a hair nightmare.”
