Officers were seen descending on Gordon Ramsay’s LA home after pranksters called in a hoax 911 report.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said it responded to a report made by an unknown person at 8.40PM on Tuesday.
They claimed there was a gunman opening fire at the Hell’s Kitchen star’s Bel Air mansion.
However, when police arrived at the scene, they found no evidence of a shootout.
Neighbours also confirmed nothing had happened at the property, according to TMZ.
Ramsay, 58, who was not at his LA home at the time of the call, appears to have fallen victim to ‘swatting.’
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Swatting is the practice of making a hoax call to emergency services to trigger the dispatch of a large number of police officers to a particular address.
Detectives have now opened an investigation into the Ramsay case, but no one has been arrested.
Metro has contacted Ramsay for comment.
In February, Ramsay revealed he was the victim of another crime as thieves had stolen ornaments from his Lucy Cat restaurant.
The first Lucky Cat was opened in London’s Mayfair in 2019 and is ‘inspired by Tokyo’s 1930s kissas and Shanghai drinking dens’.
Dotted throughout are the Japanese cat models called maneki-neko – a good luck charm.
However, in just a single week, nearly 500 of these cat figurines were stolen.
Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, Gordon revealed: ‘The cats are getting stolen. There were 477 stolen last week – they cost £4.50 each.’
In total, the cost of the stolen cats comes to more than £2,000.
The City of London Police said it had not received any reports of theft from the restaurant, according to the BBC.
However, Ramsay should more than be able to recoup the costs as he reportedly recently signed a £25,000,000 TV deal.
He has fronted plenty of programmes before, including Future Food Stars, Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Hotel Hell and Gordon’s Great Escapes.
Now, his Next Level Chef series is expanding to spin-off show Next Level Baker, launching on Fox later this year.
The competition will test bakers across three levels, as they’re challenged to make festive treats in order to win the baking crown.
Two more seasons of Next Level Chef are also said to be part of the £25m deal with Fox.
President of Fox TV Network Michael Thorn said: ‘Next Level Chef consistently raises the bar of culinary excellence as a high stakes food competition fans love, an invaluable franchise for FOX and an increasingly popular global format.
‘Extending the reach of this series with the new holiday competition once again exemplifies the strength of our incredible, long-standing collaborative partnership with Gordon, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.’
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