CAA Signs TV Chef Gordon Ramsay

COMMENTS (21)

• Lunacy I say! Pure lunacy. The agent to the star chefs, Jonathan “White Shoes” Rosen, is at WME. How could Gordon do such a thing? Is he a fool? Is he just a charlatan? Teddy bear in a chef’s coat? Oh boy. How could he leave WME. Broken chef? Disheartened? I’d say so. He had the best. Now try the rest.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 3:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • your comment is a little mad.

    Comment by yourcommentisalittlemad — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 3:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Love your comment. Finally, some personality.

    Comment by Delimeat — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 5:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Gordon wasn’t represented by Jon Rosen. He was represented by Sean Perry.

    Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 5:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• Great, but this does nothing for the core business of representing writers, directors and actors. If I’m one of them at CAA, and I’m not working, I have to be seriously questioning if i’m at the right place.

  Comment by mangrvy — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 3:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Bigger is not always better. Sign with people you like, who believe in you and give you attention. Then STAY with them when you become successful instead of letting some jackass convince you they don’t know what they’re doing. They KNOW the hardest work has been DONE at that point, and well. Otherwise they wouldn’t be talking to you. Big agency signing is the biggest scam in the world.

    Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 9:34am PDT  Reply to this post

• Jeez, the guy’s got the whole world in his hands thanks to WME. What more could he want? What did CAA promise?

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 3:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • More importantly, what does CAA get out of it? All his packages (aka the $$$) stay at WME.

    Comment by W.H. — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 4:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Exactly. I think 3 broadcast shows basically maxes him out. They’ll make some cash on personal appearances, but I don’t see any additional packages for CAA from Gordon.

      Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 5:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• That guy’s time is up.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 3:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Seems like they were doing a pretty good job for him. I always thought Itkin’s crew was the best in the business, especially with the endeavor guys now too.

  Comment by The Other Frank — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 3:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’m hearing WME “basically” fired him…sucked all the $$$ out of him that was possible…and nothing left to do for the guy. Plus, he was a pain in the ass apparently.

    Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 5:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• Gordon’s pots and pans are smarter then Sean Perry about time he hit him with one of them Kudos CAA

  Comment by stix — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 6:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If you new something about the majors you’d know that they have lifestyles, licensing and reality/alt tv agents that deal exclusively with this type of client.

  Re_mangravy

  Comment by dorkinator — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 11:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • So you mean to say they don’t pay all those agents salaries? Otherwise one could make the argument that with the same money they pay the “reality/alternative/lifestyle” agents they could hire more agents to cover non-star actors, writers and directors. But that’s not the case?

    Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 9:38am PDT  Reply to this post

    • Dude, not everyone can be Brad Pitt. If you’re a non-star why would they hire several more agents to service you? If you have a problem with any agency then leave and go to another one if you’re that miserable.

      Comment by The Ritz — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 4:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

      • The Whole POINT is that not everyone can be Brad Pitt. And sorry, but there are boutique agencies out there with three to four agents to the whole company that share non-star clients and those clients DO have the service of all those agents. Having a “team” does not necessarily equal star treatment. And your logic of “then leave if you want” is the TYPICAL attitude of someone who doesn’t give a care and provides shitty service.

        Comment by Anonymous — Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 12:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• so… with all the success, why did he leave? we know what shows he has, but what’s the fun when we don’t get the dirt??

  Comment by wholestory? — Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 11:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Nuff said.

  Comment by L — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 9:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• Having worked with him I can tell you that Gordon is a pain in the ars, he is in serious financial and legal trouble, and a huge part of his success is thanks to the guys at WME. Gordon is only making his bad situation worse. And the sad thing is he doesn’t even have the intelligence to keep the good forces in his life. Can you say, “Jumped the shark!!”

  Comment by Foxychik — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 2:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Totally jumped the shark!!!! But the real question is how long he will hold onto his credibility as a chef/restauranteur when all of his restaurants are failing!

  Comment by Snoogie — Wednesday March 16, 2011 @ 3:48pm PDT  Reply to this post