Second Chef Commits Suicide Post-Gordon Ramsay
Another chef has taken Suicide Road to the afterlife after appearing on chef Gordon Ramsay’s cooking show. Back in 2006, Rachel Brown, 41, shot herself at her family’s Dallas, Texas home a year after appearing on Hell’s Kitchen.
Last week, New Jersey restaurateur Joseph Cerniglia, 39, was found floating in New York’s Hudson River after Johnny Law received a call about a man jumping off the city’s George Washington Bridge. His death was ruled a suicide.
Joseph appeared on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares in 2007. He was a married father of three, who, during his appearance on the show, opened up about his personal troubles and debt-ridden restaurant, Campania. He told Ramsey host: “I’m financially in trouble – the debt of the restaurant alone is overwhelming. My personal debt – wife, kids, mortgage – that’s a lot of debt. I owe my purveyors about $80,000 right now in cold, hard cash… I can’t see us going on another year.”
