Gordon Ramsay has been having a secret affair...

News of The World wrote:

TV CHEF Gordon Ramsay is cheating on his devoted wife Tana, the News of the World can reveal.

The F-Word star—who revels in his family man image—began his affair with blonde Sarah Symonds seven years ago.

This week they met for sex at a London hotel. Hours earlier, she made a trip to Soho and bought legal sex drugs for their tryst.

Ramsay had a 75-minute tryst with his blonde mistress three days ago at a London hotel.

Just hours earlier he had sent lover Symonds to London’s Soho to buy the sex drug amyl nitrate.

The liaison was the latest in an affair spanning seven years which flies in the face of his carefully constructed family man image.

The 42-year-old chef has become a multi-millionaire promoting “Brand Ramsay” as a loving husband and father of four. During the time he has been sleeping with Symonds, he has made numerous claims about his fidelity to his devoted wife of 12 years Tana, 33. He has described her as “the only woman who can turn me on . . . Tana is my wife, my lover and the person I want in my bed and in my arms every night.”

In 2006 Ramsay was voted Celebrity Father Of The Year and in 2007 the Ramsays were named Celebrity Family Of The Year. Fans are used to seeing his children, aged from five to nine, appearing on his TV shows and in magazine interviews.

Ramsay’s latest assignation with Symonds came on Thursday, at the Marriott Hotel off London’s Grosvenor Square. One of his most popular restaurants, Maze, adjoins it.

She had caught the train to London from Newport, south Wales, and took a cab to the five-star hotel where she checked into £390-a-night Room 106 on the first floor.

At around 4.30pm, she left and travelled to Soho where she spent ten minutes browsing a sex shop called Simply Pleasure. She spent £10 on three small yellow bottles of amyl nitrate, branded Rave and Rush. Amyl nitrates—also known as “poppers”—are not illegal.

Users claim they heighten sexual pleasure by relaxing muscles and increasing heart rate.

The News of the World was told: “Sarah said Gordon had specifically asked her to go to Soho and get him some poppers for their romp. He likes the buzz.”

Ramsay’s fans will be aware he has always taken a fierce and public anti-drugs stance because his brother Ronnie is a heroin addict.

Symonds, 38, then visited a store opposite the sex shop and bought two bottles of white wine and some crisps before returning to the hotel.

Shortly before 8pm, Ramsay arrived at Maze and spent a few minutes chatting to staff before making his way through to the hotel and up to Symonds’ floor. He was wearing a trademark black leather jacket with red collar, dark T-shirt and jeans, and silver and black trainers.

He walked up and down the corridor before knocking on her door and going in at almost 8.15pm.

Hazard

Ramsay and Symonds stayed in the room for just over an hour and a quarter before he left at 9.30pm, retracing his steps to Maze. We were told: “They had sex.”

Outside was a chauffeur-driven silver BMW 7-series. As soon as the driver flashed his hazard lights, Ramsay left through the restaurant’s front door and got in the back. The pair had also met the previous week. Symonds had again caught the train from Newport, this time taking a cab to a Mayfair apartment. The next day—Thursday, November 13—Ram- say joined her for a two-hour tryst.

He and Symonds first met in 2001 at London’s Chinawhite nightclub, just a few months after she had revealed her affair with top Tory and author Jeffrey Archer.

The News of the World was told: “Ramsay and Sarah exchanged mobile phone numbers and became lovers just a few weeks later. So much for him being true to his wife.”

The pair continued to meet on and off for secret sex in both London and Los Angeles after Symonds moved there in 2003.

The affair came to a temporary halt in 2004 but started up again after Ramsay took his family on holiday to LA in August 2007, ironically about the time the Ramsays were being hailed as Celebrity Family Of The Year. The News of the World was told: “He’d taken Tana and their kids to visit their friends David and Victoria Beckham.

“But during that trip he contacted Sarah and promised he’d get back in touch properly when he was back in LA on his own without his family.

“He was true to his word, and called Sarah again about three months later when he was in LA filming Hell’s Kitchen on his own, and they rekindled their affair.

“Gordon twice brought Sarah to the Hell’s Kitchen set in LA where she was one of the audience.”

In October 2007, Symonds cemented her reputation as a “professional mistress” by writing her book: Having An Affair? A Handbook For The Other Woman. It made such an impact that she was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey show where she was interviewed as a role model for mistresses. In the first edition of the book Symonds, who moved from LA to Newport in her native Wales in February this year, refers to a pal who had an affair with a chef with many similarities to Ramsay.

She wrote: “A friend of mine was having an affair with a world- famous TV chef, well-known on both sides of the Atlantic for both his bad language and his good food.

Glossy

“He complained to my friend that things weren’t going well between him and his wife and that he was being made to sleep in the basement.

“Later that day, whilst passing a news stand, she was flabbergasted to see her MM’s (Married Man’s) face all over a top glossy weekly magazine, along with his wife and the latest addition to their growing brood. The article focused on ‘how strong’ their marriage was.”

The News of the World was also told: “For the last year, Gordon has been trying to help Sarah get her book published in the UK, even offering to introduce her to his own publishers and publicist.”

Ramsay is the highest-earning chef in the world with revenue from shows such as The F-Word, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen, books and merchandising expected to hit £100million by 2010.

His profile has been raised by his keen eye for publicity, often talking about his family and sex life with Tana. Only yesterday he appeared in two separate newspapers discussing his home life.

Asked in one if Tana would have cosmetic surgery, he said: “No! It would be like going to bed with a box of gelatine. I want to know that, when things get hot and steamy, she isn’t going to melt all over the bed.”

The article ended with a plug for his latest venture A Taste Of Christmas, a four-day show at London’s Excel arena which is expected to attract 25,000 visitors.

In June, he told another newspaper: “Tana and I have a great marriage even though we spend very little time together. The time we have together is quality rather than quantity.”

Again, in an article last year, Ramsay said: “Sunday night is mine and Tana’s precious night. We’ll start with a gin and tonic and put a bottle of Ruinart champagne to chill in the ice machine. For dessert we just take the champagne upstairs to bed.” And in one lengthy interview he gave four years into his affair with Symonds, he said: “On a Friday night, Tana will ask me to keep my chef’s jacket on when we make love.

“Cooking and sex go hand in glove like tomato and basil.” The article also included a plug for his then-latest book: Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy. In another lengthy interview in 2005, Ramsay revealed: “I sleep with my wife every night so she knows I think she’s beautiful.”

Touching on why he would never cheat, he added: “You are allowed to look at the menu so long as you don’t ever eat off it, as Tana says.” And in a 2006 he even revealed how working in a hot kitchen jeopardised his chances of having a family. He said: “I had to do my tadpole thing. Afterwards they said, ‘The bad news is your sperm count is low. The good news is the ones you have are very energetic’.”

Ramsay’s mistress Symonds once spoke to a newspaper about her year-long affair with Archer around the time of his failed bid to become London Mayor in 2001.

She said: “He used me shamelessly like all the others. He told me he needed help in his campaign but all he wanted was sex."

She revealed she made love to Archer, then 61, in his marital bed and that he begged her to dress in stockings and suspenders while he wore baggy white underpants.

When we approached Symonds about Ramsay late last night, she would say only: “Sorry, I’ve got nothing to say on the matter.”

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