Marco Pierre White discusses his rift with Gordon Ramsay, retiring from cooking, and having lunch with Margaret Thatcher

Louis Theroux· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome back to the Louis Theroux Podcast. [gentle music] My guest today is world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and one-time culinary enfant terrible, Marco Pierre White. In 1995, Marco became the youngest chef ever to be awarded three Michelin stars, Michelin, after training under iconic chefs Albert Roux, Pierre Koffmann, and Raymond Blanc. All of those names will be coming up, so pay close attention. They're all legendary, there's that word again, mark it off your bingo card, figures from the London restaurant scene of the '80s, [lips smack] a kind of French invasion. The British Invasion was a rock thing. [lips smack] Uh, I'm getting off-piste. With his rock star looks, high-profile relationships, and famously volatile reputation, Marco also became an unlikely celebrity figure, regularly appearing in the tabloids during the '90s and early 2000s. He is often credited with transforming British fine dining and has been dubbed the first celebrity chef in a lineage that went on to spawn figures like Jamie Oliver, friend of the pod. Over the course of his career, he trained a generation of other chefs