Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay had a "brutal week" leading up to Father's Day after a bicycle crash left him in need of trauma surgery. The British star took to social media on Sunday, local time, telling fans he had been in an accident while biking in the US state of Connecticut early last week, and was still in pain and recovering.

Chef Gordon Ramsay has described feeling shaken after a "really bad" cycling accident in the US. In a video posted to his social media, he lifted his chef's whites to show substantial purple bruising on his torso for which he required hospital treatment.

The MasterChef star, 57, revealed in a post on Instagram on Saturday, June 15, that the accident happened earlier this week while he had been biking in Connecticut. Noting that the incident “really shook me" and he had been admitted to a hospital for care, Ramsay said, “Honestly, I’m lucky to be here.” “I’m in pain.