What happened: After hearing a request on national radio, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay dispatched one of his own team members to a short-staffed school canteen on March 24. Tina Clarke, the chef’s kitchen manager, came in after hearing him speak on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show about his new BBC TV show, Future Food Stars. At Edward Peake Middle School in Biggleswade, she told the host, Vernon Kay, that she was “cooking on her own here.” Ms Clarke, who was preparing school lunches for 300 students at the Bedfordshire school, requested for assistance. Back story: “I’m cooking here on my own, I work in a school kitchen, and my chef has gone off sick, and I have another off with Covid, and I just thought if Gordon could help me today and give me a hand?” she said on the show. “If I did have the time, I would be in Bedfordshire in a heartbeat, I guarantee you, I can send a chef if you wish?” said Ramsay. Ms Clarke claimed she wasn’t expecting him to send a chef and was worried she’d be in trouble at school if he did. “I thought to myself, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to have to fess up to the head and I hope she doesn’t give me detention or lines,’ when I got a message saying Gordon’s chef, Rob Roy Cameron, will be with me in one hour,” she added. How it went: Miss Linington, she added, let Cameron into the kitchen, which “created a great buzz around the school, “It was brilliant,” she added. Cameron was immediately put to work preparing cauliflower cheese for the Church of England school, which teaches students in grades 5 through 8. She went on to say that his food tasted “wonderful” despite the fact that he wasn’t allowed to use salt. Ms Clarke remarked, “We’ve never had so many visitors in the kitchen.”