Gordon Ramsay and were thick as thieves on their Road Trip series with but rumour has it the two chefs no longer speak.

, 48, is in hot water following an News probe into multiple allegations of "sexually inappropriate" and "distressing" behaviour. Complaints about the former star span 12 years of his career and he has "firmly denied" all of them.

The probe, which found one woman allege that in 2011 said he wanted to " in front of crew members on a TV show, has seen ITV cut ties with the star and drop a new Family Fortunes series from the schedule.

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The Italian chef's Road Trip series with Gordon and Fred was a huge success, which saw the close pals travel all over the globe in search of good food. But relations with Gordon later soured due to Gino's behaviour.

"Gordon found there was a lot of unacceptable behaviour going on, he saw things he didn't think were okay so he spoke up," a source told the website. "That was that, friendship over.

"He has three daughters and a wife, Tana, who he absolutely adores and felt it was disgusting," they added. "He wanted to change those ways but then it led to difficulties between them."

With Road Trip ending, two of its stars went onto film Gino and Fred's Emission Impossible, all about how to live a greener, simpler life. First Dates star Fred at the time why it was just the two of them: "Gordon is extremely busy. I don't know if you've seen his and social media but he's opening restaurant after restaurant after restaurant.

"He just couldn't make the time. And we love travelling and we said to him 'Well, look, we're going and when you want to join us, join us, and we'll go around and we'll have some fun.'"

In response to the allegations against Gino made by ITV News, the under fire Italian dad-of-three said in a full statement: "I have been told by ITN news that allegations have been made about me acting inappropriately, some dating back over ten years ago. I have never been made aware of these matters previously and the allegations are firmly denied. I would not do anything that I thought would upset or distress anyone.

"This is simply not in my nature. I do not recognise the version of events being put to me. Not only have these allegations never been raised with me before, I have been repeatedly supported by executives at the highest level and was commissioned on prime-time programmes during the period in which it is now suggested I was acting inappropriately.

"I am a father, husband and have worked with well over 1,500 people on around 80 productions in my career, which I have been so proud of. I take such matters extremely seriously and the suggestion that I have acted in an improper way against is deeply upsetting."

The has approached Gordon Ramsay's representative.