CHEF Gordon Ramsay is known for his fiery attitude in the kitchen.
So you can only imagine what the pupils at Rastrick High School thought when they saw the chef striding through the school hall towards them.
Thankfully, it was lookalike Martin Jordan – last seen appearing on Britain’s Got Talent as part of the Chippendoubles lookalike act.
The impersonator was at the Rastrick school to judge their masterchef competition which saw Year 10 pupils create a culinary masterpiece for the Gordon lookalike to judge.
The design technology department organised the competition for the budding chefs to demonstrate and test their culinary skills and talents.
But first ‘Gordon’ made his mark on the rest of the school – helping to serve school dinners to the pupils and keeping a watchful eye over dinnerladies Nicola Hargreaves and Diane O’Meara.
Masterchef competition organiser and design technology teacher Lesley Davies-Grafton said: “The first part of the competition involved 80 GCSE food technology students making a sweet or savoury food product that had to contain apples.
“This project enabled us to see who took the most creative and high-skill approach and therefore was worthy of taking part in the final.”
Eight students made it to the final which took place yesterday at the Field Top Road school.
Their challenge was to make two courses and unknown to them their judge was Gordon – or Martin – himself.
And he’s best placed to know what the real Gordon would think – the doppleganger appeared as Gordon alongside chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall for an advert for TV series The Big Food Fight, when the real Gordon was unable to attend.
He said at the time Jamie was surprised by how alike Martin and Gordon were.
