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Gordon Ramsay has branded the Hell's Kitchen celebrity contestants as "a bunch of whingers."

The chef is vowing never to make another series of the ITV1 reality show, according to The Sun.

He said: "The amount of times they were seeing the show's psychiatrist was amazing. It's not just me - I am not putting up with that again."

Outspoken Ramsay added: "I am not losing any sleep over what I said to them. The hardest thing was dealing with their baggage and insecurities."

He went on: "People ask me 'How could you do that to celebrities?' But they were getting paid "25,000 a week... Most people don't get paid that in a year and yet they were still moaning."

His rant continues: "They were there to work, not sit around on their a****. Some of them hadn't done a day's work in their lives. It was an amazing insight into that sort of life."

Ramsay criticises Dwain Chambers: "He's saying it is too hard being on his feet. For God's sake he's an athlete."

Of Amanda Barrie he says: "What is a 70-odd year old doing in there, drinking 'til three in the morning - and she even went to hit me. She took a swipe at me. She thought that Abi Titmuss and Al Murray were insiders, that the whole thing was a set-up."

He claims the show was cleverly edited: "You didn't see 90 per cent of the whinging - in reality it was embarrassing."