Gordon Ramsay cooks up new hotel for TV

Television chef Gordon Ramsay and retail rescue queen Mary Portas have signed up to run a hotel in a new show for Channel 4.

Viewers will be able to stay the night at Hotel Britannia, where the pair will train unemployed people who want to work in the service industry.

Channel 4 presenters, including fashion-stylist-turned-cook Gok Wan, property experts Sarah Beeny and Phil Spencer and Nick Hewer, Alan Sugar’s right-hand man in BBC1’s The Apprentice, could also take up positions at the pop-up establishment in London.

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Other new programmes, announced as Channel 4 published its annual report, include a show in which employees, some with mental health conditions, attempt “to prove the stereotypes wrong”.

As part of a week of programming in the 4 Goes Mad season, comedian Ruby Wax, who has previously spoken openly about suffering from depression, will follow successful businessmen and women as they disclose a mental health condition to employers, friends or family.

Fellow comedian Jon Richardson will meet people suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder to find out if he is just a demanding perfectionist or has the medical condition.

Channel 4’s chief creative officer Jay Hunt said : “These shows are about doing what Channel 4 does best – bringing complex issues alive with real creative flair.”

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