Australian deputy PM upset at Gordon Ramsay rant

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SYDNEY (AFP) — Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was told he should to stick to cooking by Australia's deputy prime minister over a rant in which he suggested a female TV presenter was a lesbian.

The British cook attacked Nine Network's "A Current Affair" presenter Tracy Grimshaw at a Melbourne cooking expo on Saturday, the day after she interviewed him.

In front of thousands of onlookers, Ramsay suggested Grimshaw was a lesbian and needed "to see Simon Cowell's botox doctor."

He also showed a picture of a woman apparently naked on all fours with the face of a pig and said "that's Tracy Grimshaw." His publicist has since said the comments were a joke and not intended to cause offence.

But Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was unimpressed, saying Ramsay had...