Top TV chef Gordon Ramsay has come under fire after labelling an award-winning Blackpool restaurant a 'kitchen nightmare'.

Both Blackpool tourism chief, Jane Seddon, and restaurateurs, Dave Jackson and Dawn Brindley, claim the celebrity chef was scathingly unfair about former Restaurant of the Year Jackson's during Tuesday night's episode of his BAFTA-winning Channel 4 series, Kitchen Nightmares.

Dave, 46, and partner Dawn, 30, originally contacted the show more than two years ago in a bid to help boost flagging sales at the three-floor Market Street cafe/restaurant, dubbed the Marie Celeste by the enigmatic star.

Not only did the Michelin-starred chef attack the quality of food prepared by head chef and owner, Dave, who admitted he had never made a casserole, couldn't steam mussels and had not worked in a professional kitchen since leaving catering college in the 1970s.

But he also compared the former Castle Casino front-of-house manager's working style to that of a "headless chicken" and following a sensational kitchen bust-up, recited number two of his own cheffing 'Ten Commandments'... "Never appoint yourself head chef if you can't cook".

In addition to this Ramsay earned criticism from Ms Seddon for questioning the credibility of the resort's prestigious Tourism Awards which named the Market Street venue, formerly known as Clubway 41, as the top restaurant for 2003-4.

Both now say their on-camera contributions to the programme were either heavily edited or purposely left out by the show's producers.

Dave even claims the food served to customers on the final 'relaunch' night was, in fact, cooked by the show's team of chefs and not himself.

He said: "We are not interested in publicising our involvement in this programme in any way because we don't feel the final edit of the show gave an accurate picture of the situation at the restaurant.

"We also didn't cook any of the food served up on the night, so how can we be held responsible for dishes we didn't even cook? It's ridiculous."

Ms Seddon, whose interview with the TV chef was cut from the final programme, defended the restaurant and its award adding: "Gordon Ramsay actually came in to the Blackpool Tourism offices when he was here and we had quite a long conversation with him, on tape, about the awards.

"All the questons he had for us were answered and we obviously didn't answer them the way he wanted us to because he didn't use it.

"Clubway 41 was awarded restaurant of the year based on the comments made by members of the public.

"We do phone people up, check they do exist and have eaten there. We also send a mystery shopper.

"But we're not giving out a Michelin star - we take into account everything, including things like the atmosphere and the service."

A Kitchen Nightmares spokeswoman denied any wrongdoing from the show's producers.

She said: "One of the reason's that Kitchen Nightmares is so popular is that it is so honest.

"The whole filming process is completely transparent from start to finish and only the most necessary editing is ever carried out meaning that what ends up being aired on TV is a completely fair representation of the business being featured.

"There is nothing more sinister at play, we have no agenda and we don't need to sensationalise to set anyone up."