Gordon Ramsay fired his father-in-law and accused him of taking £1.42 million from the company. In 2017, his father-in-law was sentenced to six months in prison for conspiring to hack the company's systems. In the video below, Ramsay is asked which moment in his life he would go back and change. His answer: "Never employ family." Years earlier, he had asked that same father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson, for £20,000 toward a flat deposit while driving a Porsche. "I'll have another lunch with you when you sell your Porsche," Hutcheson replied, advice Ramsay still calls the best he ever gave him. Hutcheson ran Ramsay's business and spent 12 years at his side. In October 2010, Ramsay fired him amid allegations of financial misconduct. Ramsay later accused his father-in-law of withdrawing £1.42 million from the company to fund a double life. Hutcheson denied wrongdoing, saying the money was taken as directors' loans and properly recorded. After his dismissal, Hutcheson conspired with his sons Adam and Chris, who had IT roles at the company, to access its systems without permission. The court heard they sought financial details and other material that might give them an advantage in the civil case against Ramsay. When the access was discovered, Hutcheson emailed his son: "Guess we have been rumbled. Bit late though." In 2012, the parties settled their civil disputes and withdrew their claims, leaving the allegations about the money unproven in court. The criminal hacking case proceeded separately: in April 2017, Hutcheson and both sons pleaded guilty. By sentencing, Ramsay and Tana, Hutcheson's daughter, had begun reconciling with the family and withdrawn their support for the criminal prosecution. Hutcheson still received a prison sentence. In the later interview, Ramsay explicitly connects his conclusion to 2010: "Don't mix family and business." He explains why he does not want to simply put his own children in charge of his restaurants. After that betrayal, was Ramsay right to say "never employ family," or was the problem one business partner rather than working with relatives?