Gordon Ramsay set up a business inside a London prison that taught inmates how to bake and sold the goods on the outside. Providing the prison with financial support while giving the inmates work experience they could use to find honest work after their sentence.

From criminal to trainee cook: ‘I owe Gordon Ramsay a lot’

“I’m a work in progress,” says Anthony Kelly, former career criminal, long-term drug abuser and one-time star trainee in TV chef Gordon Ramsay’s Bad Boys’ Bakery. Before taking part in last year’s surprise-hit reality TV programme, Gordon Behind Bars, in which Ramsay set up a professional bakery in the bowels of London’s Brixton prison, Kelly, 34, had spent a total of 16 years in a variety of jails around the country serving time for burglary, drug dealing, stealing from heavy goods vehicles and innumerable other felonious activities.

Now, a year after the series ended, the fast-talking cockney’s life has taken a dramatic change in direction. For the first time since he was 10 years old, and after a long stint in a rehabilitation clinic… Continue Reading (6 minute read)