Gordon Ramsay reveals ‘best advice’ father-in-law gave him when he was ‘young and skint’

Gordon Ramsey reveals 'best advice' father-in-law ever gave him: 'We were young and skint'High Performance Podcast

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00:00 We were young, we were stupid, and we were skint.

00:04 I remember going to ask her father

00:06 if I could borrow 20 grand for the deposit

00:08 for a flat that we fell in love with.

00:10 And I thought this was all going well, lunch is good,

00:12 I'll pay for lunch, and I said,

00:14 oh, by the way, about that deposit,

00:17 you know, Tana and I, we've got half of it,

00:18 we need the other 20 grand.

00:20 I'll pay you back in a year.

00:22 He said, okay, here's what I'll do.

00:24 I'll have another lunch with you when you sell your Porsche.

00:28 I thought, you (beep) but you clever (beep)

00:33 Here I am driving around in a flash (beep) 911,

00:38 and we didn't even have a (beep) house.

00:40 Didn't have a flat, didn't have a roof over our heads.

00:42 It's the best advice he ever gave me.

00:44 Sell your (beep) Porsche.

00:46 I did sell it.

00:47 And 10 years later, I went and bought it back.

00:51 - Same car?