LONDON - Friends say Gordon Ramsay's wife is used to her husband's roving eye as more details emerged of the celebrity chef's alleged affair with a "professional mistress".
The British press reports have dedicated pages to Ramsay's alleged seven-year affair with Sarah Symonds, who wrote a book calledHaving An Affair? A Handbook for the Other Woman.
Ramsay, 42, and Symonds, 38, were photographed less than a week ago at a London hotel, after she was said to have bought three bottles of legal sex drugs.
The claims were made by the tabloid News of the World, and the Ramsays' have not commented or denied the allegations.
Friends say Ramsay and Tana, his wife of 12 years with whom he has four children, spent hours last night discussing their marital crisis.
But they said Tana, 33, had become resigned to Ramsay's flirtatious ways and roving eye over the course of their marriage.
"Sometimes Tana just doesn't ask what Gordon is up to even though she is aware about what goes on. She does not question him when she has become suspicious when rumours are flying," an unnamed friend told the Mail Online.
"They have a fulfilling life together, but Tana is no fool. She has her kids, her beautiful house and now her (own) TV career, which, let's face it, is off the back of her husband's fame.
"There is no question that she won't stand by Gordon."
The Ramsays have not commented or denied the allegations, but the chef's mother-in-law on Monday came to his defence.
"Gordon is my son-in-law and a wonderful, sweet man. We hold him in the highest regard. He is a very dear member of our family," Tana's mother Greta Hutcheson, 63, told the Mail Online from her Mayfair home.
Asked of the alleged affair, Hutcheson said: "I don't think anything has happened".
But media reports said Tana's family, including her father Chris and brothers Adam and Luke, had held their own crisis talks at a restaurant near their home.
Meanwhile, The Sun reported that Ramsay treated Symonds to a six-course meal at his Maze restaurant in Mayfair after their alleged romp at the London hotel.
Symonds once had an affair with shamed Tory politician Lord Archer but says she no longer indulges in extra-marital relationships.
