Would you believe that it was Mr. Nasty himself, Idol pundit Simon Cowell, who persuaded celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay to undergo cosmetic surgery on his chin?

Ramsay owns restaurants in New York and Los Angeles and became famous for his four-letter tirades on shows like Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. But the 42-year-old tells London’s Radio Times that he went under the knife to bolster confidence in his looks after Cowell insisted the foul-mouthed cook’s wrinkly Leno chin would hamper his career stateside.

“My mother said they were smile lines. I could deal with that at 21 but not at 42. Simon Cowell suggested that now I’m a success in America, I should do something, so I had a filler put under the deep crevices. It hurt.”