Gordon Ramsay Calls Kitchen Lawsuit a "F---ing Joke"

Gordon Ramsay by Kharen Hill/Fox
Breaking a three-month silence, celeb chef
Gordon Ramsay has slammed the
$1 million lawsuit filed by a restaurant owner who claimed that Ramsay's yet-to-premiere
Kitchen Nightmares cooked up drama by making the eatery seem worse than it was. "The idea of bringing moldy food in and planting actors [as disgusted customers] is a f--king joke," Ramsay tells
TV Week. "[The plaintiff] is a man who got very scared and very embarrassed about his lack of professionalism.... We were issued a writ because, god bless America, if the toilet paper is not thick enough and you come out with a rash on your ass [you get sued]."
Is that true? Because the bathroom tissue here at the office is not exactly exemplary.
Earlier this month, a judge turned the suit over to arbitration.