Jamie Oliver has hit back at fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay after the latter's jokes at his expense on The Nightly Show earlier this year.
During his week-long stint hosting the ITV series, Gordon made Jamie the butt of several jokes, calling him "fat" and criticising his restaurants.
Jamie has now responded to the insults, comparing the Kitchen Nightmares host to someone suffering from dementia in the process.
"All my friends and people I work with in TV were very pissed off for me," Jamie recalled to The Sun.
"But it's a bit like going to see someone you love who has dementia who keeps forgetting and then doesn't remember what they've said.
"It doesn't bother me anymore, but it was a lot. He hasn't texted to apologise, I don't know if he does emotion like that."
He added: "I don't think he can be jealous of me because no British chef has cracked American TV like Gordon has or smashed it on TV.
"He's killing it, but we're different. I was doing TV years before him, so maybe five years ago it would have bothered me and I may have responded.
"But he's got four kids and I've got five kids and I don't want to be slagging off some kids' dad on telly. It's not nice."
However, in another interview on the matter, Jamie revealed that he found the constant bashing from Gordon "funny".
"We've got no issues with each other," he told OK!. "In fact, we're both very lucky to be working after 20 years in the business – although I was the original, obviously, by a few years."
