Tana Ramsay's celebrity mum of the year crown

THE wife of television chef Gordon Ramsay was crowned celebrity mum of the year today and said "patience" was the most important virtue for a parent.

Tana Ramsay, 35, who has four children, described herself as a traditional mother who was always learning about being a good parent. She received the Tesco Magazine Celebrity Mum of the Year award at a ceremony in central London.

Asked what made a good mother, Ramsay, who has written three best-selling cookbooks and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity, said: "It's important to stay close to them, but that gets tricky when they get older and they get secretive and into their teenage years… but just being there, being their friend."

The overall award for Tesco Magazine Mum of the Year went to Jane Gates, from Binfield in Berkshire. She set up a charity to establish a holiday home for sick children and their families after her son, Sebastian, nine, died of a rare form of kidney cancer in 2003.