Apparently, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay likes to curse.

I wouldn’t know. Celebrity chefs do, no doubt, serve a useful purpose in this world of ours. They get people’s attention and teach them how to cook a decent meal. Of course, there’s the whole distasteful world of marketing that goes along with it (I simply MUST have the Rachael Ray brand EVOO!), and everything else that comes along with success. But names like Gordon Ramsay and Alton Brown get people’s attention, so if you want to win an argument on the perfect way to cook a steak, look no further than celebrity chefs.

Celebrity chefs rose out of cooking shows, which are based on the well-known concept that people love to stare at food. I know I do. Watching someone prepare a complex gourmet meal while you snack on Stouffer’s Welsh rarebit and tortilla chips is just shameful and depressing, but we can’t stop. None of us can. We’re powerless in the face of cooking.

(Does anyone else really enjoy the sort of casual way T.V. chefs announce their ingredients? “Oh, I just had this fresh Tibetan trout shipped in from my friends in the monestary, but you can use any fish.” Uh huh.)

Anyway, Gordon Ramsay was recently involved in a controversy over his constant usage of certain bad words during his program. Yes, certain words. No, not a single article I can find will tell me what words. They don’t even hint at it. It’s so frustrating.

The calls for censorship came from Australian T.V., going so far as to ask lawmakers to ban some of Ramsay’s favorite words from the airwaves. On Thursday, the Senate panel rejected the notion that additional censorship was needed.

Lest we get too excited about the enlightenment of other countries, however, turn your gaze to a tale of woe. Remember Martha Stewart? Yeah, her. She’s been banned from Britain.

Not British T.V. - Britain itself.

She’d been planning to travel to the U.K. for some business engagements, but was denied access to the country because of her 2004 convictions.

Because clearly, what we have to fear most in this day and age is T.V. hosts.

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