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Gordon Ramsay has come under fire for his behaviour during a 2010 interview with Sofia Vergara .
The footage of the TV chef appearing on the Tonight Show went viral after it received more than 45,000 retweets on Twitter.
The video shows the two celebrities siting alongside each other as host Jay Leno interviews Vergara, the highest paid woman on US television .
During the course of the interview, Ramsay repeatedly talks over the actor, mocking her accent and making a number of jokes tinged with sexual innuendo.
In the clip 46-year-old Vergara says: “ I never scream like that in real life”, in reference to a previous skit.
To which Ramsay replies: “Only in the bedroom”.
Later, Leno discusses a campaign the actor ran claiming she would run down Sunset Boulevard naked if The Modern Family won an Emmy.
“That’s ridiculous, I cannot run, I have bad knees,” Sofia said.
Gordon then replied, referencing Sofia’s breasts: “Yes, you’ll knock yourself out.”
The actor’s frustration becomes very clear when Leno asks her how much weight she gained during the trip: “What sort of question is that?”
Show all 12 1 /12The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Anne Hathaway The 32-year-old actress said she has already experiences job rejections because of her age. “Now I'm in my early thirties and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part? I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it, it's the way things are,” she told Glamour.
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Helen Mirren On news that Maggie Gyllenhaal had been turned down for being ‘too old’, aged 37, to play a 55-year-old man’s partner: “It’s f***ing outrageous. It’s ridiculous. Honestly, it’s so annoying. And ’twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It’s so annoying.”
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Maggie Gyllenhaal Gyllenhaal revealed she was told by a Hollywood producer that she was too old, aged 37, to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man. “It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh,” she said at the time.
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Meryl Streep Meryl Streep has helped fund an all-female screenwriters group called The Writer’s Lab to encourage more women to pen Hollywood scripts. She previously told Vogue in 2011: “Once women pass childbearing age they could only be seen as grotesque on some level.”
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Emma Thompson The actress said she thought Hollywood is “still completely s***” when it comes to treating women equally to men. ““When I was younger, I really did think we were on our way to a better world. And when I look at it now, it is in a worse state than I have known it, particularly for women, and I find that very disturbing and sad.”
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Elizabeth Banks Banks said she was driven from acting to directing due to the lack of roles for older women in Hollywood. “"[Industry sexism] drove me to direct for sure. I definitely was feeling that I was unfulfilled and a little bit bored by the things that were coming across my desk. I mean look at Gwyneth Paltrow who has her Oscar [for Shakespeare in Love] and played fifth banana to Iron Man,” she told Deadline.
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Viola Davis “I had never seen a 49-year-old, dark-skinned woman who is not a size 2 be a sexualised role in TV or film. I'm a sexual woman, but nothing in my career has ever identified me as a sexualised woman. I was the prototype of the ‘mommified’ role,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Liv Tyler The Lord of the Rings actress said she only get cast in roles where she is treated as a “second class citizen” at the age of 38. “When you’re in your teens or twenties, there is an abundance of ingenue parts which are exciting to play. But at [my age], you’re usually the wife or the girlfriend - a sort of second-class citizen. There are more interesting roles for women when they get a bit older,” she told More magazine.
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Cate Blanchett The actress famously called out sexism on the red carpet at the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards. When a camera operator scanned her up and down, she said: “Do you do this to the guys?” In her Oscar acceptance speech for Blue Jasmine, she reminded the film industry that movies with leading women can still be successful. “And thank you to... those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the centre, are niche experiences. They are not -- audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Ellen Page Asked if she had ever encountered sexism in Hollywood, Page told The Guardian: ‘Oh my God, yeah! It's constant! It's how you're treated, it's how you're looked at, how you're expected to look in a photoshoot, it's how you're expected to shut up and not have an opinion, it's how you... If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.”
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Zoe Saldana The actress says she refuses roles where she has to play the generic girlfriend, wife or sexy bombshell. "It's very hard being a woman in a man's world, and I recognised it was a man's world even when I was a kid. It's an inequality and injustice that drove me crazy, and which I always spoke out against — and I've always been outspoken,” she told Manhattan magazine.
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The actors fighting against sexism in Hollywood Charlize Theron The actress spoke to ELLE about negotiating equal pay for the Snow White and the Huntsman sequel: "This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way."
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And when Gordon touches her on the thigh, without consent to which she exclaims: “No touching!”
At the end of the clip, a visibly frustrated Vergara snaps: “This is my interview.”
Social media users have been quick to condemn Ramsay’s actions in the wake of #MeToo , accusing him of mistreating his co-guest with “inappropriate” and “sexist” conduct.
“Sofia Vergara didn’t deserve to be treated like this. This is very very uncomfortable,” shared one fan online.
Another person wrote: “She straight up yelled ‘this guy does not respect me!’ in Spanish. Her body language is more than indicative of her uncomfortableness towards his presence.“
A third added: “Nothing charming about Ramsay’s behaviour here, sexist and dare I say racist undertone to it.”
Support free-thinking journalism and attend Independent events The controversy comes just days after Ramsay and his wife of 23 years, Tana, announced they were expecting their fifth child.
The couple are already parents to Megan, 21, Matilda, 17, and twins Jack and Holly, 19.
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