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Photo above: In May, the chin of new Botox user Gordon Ramsay looked slightly smoother, but his forehead didn’t. (AP photo) Photo below: Last summer, Ramsay insisted that he was not using Botox. (Photo courtesy of Zimbio.com)

BATTLE OF WILLS

Ordinarily, “Hell’s Kitchen” chef Gordon Ramsay is no pushover. But “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell is even more strong-willed, and a big fan of Botox too.

So when the two met, Cowell turned Ramsay into a Botox user.

“Yeah, it’s Simon’s fault,” Ramsay said in a recent interview.  “I had lunch with him and he leaned over and started prodding my chin saying, ‘Mate, you’ve got to do something about this.’  …

“I mean, I know I’ve always had a face like Freddy Krueger, but more and more people were commenting on my chin. A make-up artist actually said to me, ‘God, what happened to you? Did you have an accident when you were little? Did you fly through the windscreen with no seatbelt on?’ ”

Ramsay didn’t try to eliminate the wrinkles in his forehead, which are part of his distinctive look. But even after Botox injections in his chin, no one noticed any improvement — including his mother, he said.

“When I was talking to my mum about all that’s been going on … she said, ‘Keep your chin up’. I said, ‘Yeah, well at least I’ve got a new one of those’, but it went over her head.”

Cowell, by the way, says he thinks that using Botox is as routine as using toothpaste, but insists he’ll never color his hair.

Photo: Gordon Ramsay last summer. (Photo courtesy of Zimbio.com)

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