10 Things You Don't Know About Gordon Ramsay

Hotheaded celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay brings his fiery temper back to TV this month for season 19 of Hell’s Kitchen, which was filmed at his restaurant of the same name in Las Vegas. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 54-year-old foodie.

1 He was born in Johnstone, Scotland, in 1966 but was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

2 He was an aspiring pro soccer player in his youth — but his career was cut short by a knee injury while he was still a teenager.

3 He’s one of four siblings — and his younger brother, Ronald, did time in an Indonesian prison for heroin possession.