Rise of the Rockstar Chef review – Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White serve up the most sizzling TV of the year

Heston Blumenthal is a third wheel as the pair reveal all about their culinary stardom and infamous beef. Expect endless juicy gossip, from pan-throwing to gatecrashing weddings … and mid-service kitchen sex

Never mind the scallops, here’s the Chef Pistols. Rise of the Rockstar Chef portrays the fine-dining dons of the 90s and 00s in the manner of a band biopic. In place of musical differences is a stolen reservations book and an argument about red mullet that reduced Gordon Ramsay to tears. How’s that for a kitchen nightmare?

As Ramsay, Marco Pierre White and Heston Blumenthal look back at their storied careers, it’s a culinary willy-waving contest. “We were bigger and better than the Beatles,” brags White. “And we fed more people than they did.”