Foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay this week had to defend his decision to include a blind cook on his TV series “MasterChef.”
Ramsay’s Twitter followers bombarded him with rough comments about the contestant Christine Ha, who dazzled the judges with a Vietnamese catfish dish on the series’ second season debut show.
“Of course they gave a blind woman an apron. They [Fox apparently] will do anything to attract viewers.” wrote one Twitter fan.
“How dare you put a blind woman into ‘MasterChef’! ‘Oh, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to burn you with hot oil. Sorry, I wasn’t looking,’ ” wrote another.
Another simply said: “A blind contestant? Really?!”
Ramsay responded in characteristically blunt fashion.
“You’re sick. Get some help! Unbelievable. She cooked an amazing dish!” he tweeted.
The TV chef retweeted a message of support to his 850,000 followers which read: “As a blind instructor, thank you for having the guts to have a visual impaired cook on.”