These days he's more famous for turning the air blue than anything else, but it was more a case of turning the chopping board red when Gordon Ramsay appeared on US programme The Ellen Show.

The fiery chef was telling chat-show host Ellen DeGeneres how to correctly slice vegetables for a vegan stir-fry when he slipped and nicked the top of his middle finger.

"I just cut myself because I wasn't concentrating," he said. "I was trying to teach you at the same time. Damn, I haven't done that for years. I can't believe I've done that. I haven't cut myself in 10 years," he winced as Ellen ran around to find a plaster.

Lucy Ferguson brings you this week's food TV highlights.

Raymond Blanc, the twinkly eyed host of The Restaurant has got his own cookery programme Raymond Blanc: Kitchen Secrets.

During a 'Martha Stewart Show' segment on the "S Factor" workout, an exercise regimen that involves stripping and pole dancing, Martha Stewart donned spandex and busted out a few of her best sensual moves.

Stewart and actress Sheila Kelley, who developed the workout, gyrated their hips, then took to the stage and took several spins on a stripper pole.

Watch the video after the jump.

Straight talking New Yorker Anthony Bourdain is back with a new US series of No Reservations - and what better way to promote it than by burning six tonnes of cocaine?

American TV network Fox are launching MasterChef in the US with our very own not-so-craggy-faced-anymore chef Gordon Ramsay .

It's not clear yet whether he'll be a judge, but he's definitely going to be in front of the camera. So will we be hearing Gordon uttering the immortal lines "Cooking Doesn't Get Tougher than this"? Will Chef Ramsay be telling hopeful contestants he wants to "take a bath in their chocolate fondant"?

Apparently not, because it seems MasterChef America will be much more similar to the incredibly popular and even more dramatic MasterChef Australia.

With so many celebrity chefs gracing our screens - changing our school dinners, driving around in pairs on motorbikes and backing controversial local restaurants - it's easy to forget about Delia Smith.

Thanks to new BBC 2 show Delia Through The Decades, which begins tonight, Delia is back to remind us just what a huge debt of gratitude every celebrity chef owes her.

Last night the F Word reached it's climax with a head-to-head final between Birmingham's Lasan, and Cambridgeshire's The Pheasant, to find Gordon Ramsay's Best Local Restaurant.

Not only was a battle between our culinary souls - the UK's favourite food versus our traditional culinary heritage - it was a chance for Gordon to put the trials and tribulations of 2009 behind him, and celebrate the best of the UK's local restaurants. However he can't even pick a restaurant without stirring up controversy...

TV chef Gordon Ramsay is in another spot of bother after the taxman took him to court for debts yesterday.

Experiencing his very own Kitchen Nightmare Ramsay was accused of falling behind with payments from four of his posh restaurants. Not good for a man who makes TV shows about restaurants in financial trouble.

The foul-mouthed chef was given two months to pay HM Revenue and Customs the cash due from his Michelin-starred Maze in London's Mayfair.

Lucy Ferguson has some suggestions for Gordon Ramsay to up the "likeability factor".

Gordon Ramsay's had a terrible year. His characteristic rudeness, his kitchens and even his private life have come under attack from all sides. The Australian prime minister called him a 'low life' after he was rude about a local journalist, and even the pasta sauces Ramsay has on sale for Comic Relief state "no cash going to Gordon Ramsay" on the back. So it is with great interest that we anticipate a new series of The F Word tonight.

Lucy Ferguson brings you the week's TV food highlights

Let's celebrate, we're reaching the highpoint on the foodie calendar. The nights are drawing in, it's time for Halloween and fireworks and baked apples and cinder toffee. But none of those things are a reason to celebrate. Oh no. The real high point of the foodie TV calendar is The Restaurant, which returns this week.