With a restaurant group boasting a total of 17 coveted Michelin stars, Gordon Ramsay is one of the world's most successful chefs. Yet alongside his many professional triumphs, he has experienced profound personal tragedy.

In 2016, Gordon and his wife Tana experienced a late-term miscarriage at five months into the pregnancy. They had been expecting a son and chose to name him Rocky.

Tana shared at the time that Rocky had been "born with a strong heartbeat, but [was] too little to survive."

Speaking on the High Performance podcast, Gordon reflected on what helped them navigate such a devastating loss: "The secret of that relationship is communication," he said.

"And then dealing with the trauma of losing an amazing tiny little baby, just watching that devastation unfold, and everything happening live while you're there - you value each other."

Gordon and Tana have been together for almost 30 years. "We started off as best mates, and we were young, we were stupid, and we were skint," he recalls.

So skint, in fact, that Gordon had to ask his father-in-law for a loan to help them buy a flat. But when he took Chris Hutcheson out to lunch to make the request, the petrol-head chef got an unexpected response.

"I remember going to ask her father if I could borrow £20,000 for the deposit on a flat we'd fallen in love with," Gordon said.

"And I thought, 'This is all going well, lunch is good, I'll pay for lunch.' And I said, 'Oh, by the way, Chris, about that deposit - you know, Tana and I, we've got half of what we need, the other £20,000, I'll pay you back in a year...'"

Gordon recalled: "He said, 'OK, here's what I'll do. I'll have another lunch with you when you sell your Porsche.'

"I thought, you ****er... you clever ****er. Here I am, driving around in a flash 911 Turbo conversion.

"Tana and I loved the car, and we didn't even have a ****ing house. Didn't have a flat, didn't have a roof over our heads. That's the best advice he ever gave me: sell your ****ing Porsche.

"I did sell it. And ten years later, I went and bought it back."

Gordon tracked down the exact car he'd sold and added it to a collection that now includes eight Ferraris, an Aston Martin, and a couple of McLarens.

Getting the car back "felt amazing," he says.

He explains that his supercar obsession is probably rooted in his schooldays, when his dad used to drop him off at the gates in a dilapidated Vauxhall Viva that was more rust than car.

"I used to be embarrassed with my father dropping us off at school in his Vauxhall Viva. There's more ****ing rust on the inside than there was on the outside," he says.

"So," he adds, "I get embarrassed with what I've invested in now - a collection of amazing supercars.

"But it's amazing when you can't stop thinking about the beginning of this journey. And then you sort of, you don't want to indulge, but you want to enjoy the sort of fruits of your labour."