Gordon Ramsay has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at his neighbours in Cornwall.
Various residents complained about his family spending lockdown 1 at their home on the coast last spring; and the TV chef, 54, has mocked them in a recent interview.
Asked what he’s most looking forward to when lockdown 3 eventually ends, Gordon quipped: ‘Getting back to see my f*****g neighbours in Cornwall.’
Love thy neighbour? Gordon Ramsay has taken a thinly-veiled swipe at his neighbours in Cornwall
He also joked: ‘And guess what? I’ve invited Joe Biden for breakfast. Wait till you see who I’ve got coming for f*****g breakfast. Big Joe! You know he’s coming down for the G7!’
The new president is due to attend the G7 meeting at the Carbis Bay beach resort near St Ives this year, with Gordon adding that his neighbours were ‘going to go crazy’.
Gordon angered locals after relocating to his second home in Cornwall during the coronavirus crisis despite the Government urging Britons not to travel.
The star – who has since returned to London – was spotted a number of times taking long excursions when outings were still limited to an hour a day including a beachside stroll with his entire family.
At the time, the fiery chef was accompanied by wife Tana, 46, and three of their five children – Jack, 21, Matilda, 18, and Oscar, one – during a brisk walk across the sand.
The Hell’s Kitchen star also landed in hot water with the local coastguard, who are said to have issued an official warning to him over his apparent flouting of lockdown guidelines.
Sources indicated that Gordon was seen in Rock, Fowey, Port Isaac and Newquay – some distance from his £4 million home in Trebetherick.
While people with second homes are not allowed to travel back and forth during lockdowns, choosing one home and spending the duration there was not against official advice.
A friend of the family told MailOnline: ‘The family see Cornwall as their family home when the kids are back from uni and Gordon back from filming around the world it’s where they spend all their family time together.
‘They’ve been spending time there for 10 years and Jack actually lives in the house there full time too. Most of their neighbours are so welcoming and they love being part of the community.
‘The campaign against them is hurtful and unnecessary at a time when we should all be coming together and supporting each other.’
Gordon also said in his recent interview that he can change a nappy with his eyes closed after spending so much time at home.
He said his youngest son Oscar had become his ‘best mate’ during lockdown, and he had changed some 150 nappies in total.
‘Having the chance to spend that time with your family is unprecedented,’ he said. ‘So, we were very fortunate having all seven of us together.
‘The only one we’re missing now is Jack, he’s off as a Royal Marine, active, and so again, you depend on those Zoom calls. But it’s much harder for the 18 to 25-year-olds because they can’t see a way out as you can as an adult and a parent and so the reconnect is extraordinary.
‘And on top of that is the quality time. I must have gone through about 150 diapers with Oscar. I can literally change a nappy now with my eyes closed and he’s become my best mate.
‘And how fitting is that that my first best mate is now a Royal Marine commando and I have a new best mate in Oscar.
‘I think he should have a buzzcut, I suggest we should go number two on top and shave it at the sides to number two.’
The chef, who is hosting a new game show on BBC One called Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance.
He said of this: ‘There’s something pretty dynamic about being given a show at 9PM, stripped across nine nights on the BBC. You wake up in the morning and you s**t yourself.
‘It’s very rare you get a chance to not just present your own show, but be part of that creative team. And that was the bit that got me out of bed every morning at 5AM.
‘You look at the success of The Chase, The Wall, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? coming back, there’s definitely a need for that kind of connect. And Bank Balance offers that.’
Hoping that the show will be ‘an amazing hit’, Gordon added: ‘We were on it 12 hours a day, five days a week [in lockdown]. I’d never go in thinking it was a home run. There’s going to be a lot of eyeballs on this thing.’
The format sees contestants win up to £100k by answering questions against the clock to earn the chance to balance bars across a pyramid that risks collapsing.
‘I wanted something sort of cutting edge that intimidates every goddamn guest that walks up those stairs,’ he said of the gold bank vault-like set.
Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance debuts on BBC One on February 24 at 9PM.