Gordon Ramsay opened up about the bittersweet experience of giving away his daughter, Holly Ramsay, at her wedding.Holly, 26, married Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty, 31, in December 2025 after the couple announced their engagement in 2024.The 59-year-old celebrity chef shares Holly, her twin brother Jack, daughters Megan, 28, and Matilda, 24, and sons Oscar, 7, and Jesse, 2, with his wife, Tana Ramsay, 52, whom he married in 1996.During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Ramsay, who is starring in season two of Apple TV's "Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars," reflected on the close bonds that he shares with his three daughters and explained why he was left feeling "second best" after he walked Holly down the aisle.GORDON RAMSAY SAYS ‘THE MOST IMPORTANT THING’ HE TAUGHT HIS SIX KIDS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH COOKINGGordon Ramsay revealed the real reason that he was crying while walking his daughter Holly down the aisle during her wedding last year. (Grant Buchanan/Dave Benett/Getty Images; Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)"You grow up with these gorgeous girls and you teach them.
I said to them, from an early age, they must have been seven or eight years of age, ‘The earlier you tell me, the more I can f---ing do," he recalled."They ignore you for two or three years," Ramsay continued."But when they get to 11 or 12, ‘Hey daddy, you know what he said to me? The earlier you told me, the more you can do, I have a problem.
Can I talk to you about it?’"KELLY RIPA, MARK CONSUELOS SHARE BLUNT ADVICE FOR COUPLES PLANNING A BIG WEDDING"Bang, then we're in,'" he added with a smile."Then you're like that, you're sort of the BFF, right? Then you're a cool f---ing dad, then you're perfect.
But when you walk them down the aisle, and you're minutes away from not being the number one guy in their life, and you're handing them over, man, that hits.That absolutely hits.""So you have to understand that that relationship with your daughter is borrowed time before ...