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Gordon Ramsay’s ‘boring’ Netflix series slammed by TV critics

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  • Being Gordon Ramsay, the new Netflix documentary about the celebrity chef has received largely negative reviews from critics.
  • The six-part series, which follows Ramsay's family life ahead of him opening a new restaurant in London, was released on Wednesday.
  • Critics, though, have been left unimpressed withThe Independent's Nick Hilton criticising it for functioning largely as an advertisement for his new venture, rather than a career retrospective.
  • Meanwhile, in The Guardian, Lucy Mangan called the series "fluffy nonsense with occasional nuggets of insight".
  • Elsewhere, Ben Allen for GQ called the documentary was not revealing or memorable and will leave viewers longing for the days of Ramsay's hit series Kitchen Nightmares.
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