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        <title><![CDATA[Gordon Ramsay reportedly donated $50K to treat Ben Watkins&#8217; cancer]]></title>
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						<p>Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay reportedly donated $50,000 to help pay for treatment for &#8220;MasterChef Junior&#8221; contestant Ben Watkins as he<strong>&nbsp;battled the rare cancer that claimed his life</strong>.</p>
<p>Watkins died Monday at age 14.</p>
<p>Ramsay donated the money back in August, <strong>Variety reported</strong>.</p>
<p>That was around the same time Ramsay and other &#8220;MasterChef Junior&#8221; contestants sent Watkins loving messages on video.</p>
<p>“If you can beat me in the &#8216;MasterChef Junior&#8217; kitchen, trust me, you can beat this,” Ramsay said. “God bless, and lots of love, buddy.”</p>
<p>Watkins, who starred in the reality show’s sixth season, was undergoing treatment for angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma — a soft tissue tumor — at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.</p>
<p>The promising young cooking star was one of only six people in the world who suffered from the disease.</p>
<figure id="attachment_16658396"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/11/21/gordon-ramsay-reportedly-donated-50k-to-treat-ben-watkins-8217-cancer-0.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>A family statement on the passing of “MasterChef Junior” contestant Ben Watkins.</span></figcaption></figure>
<p>Anthony Edwards, Watkins&#8217; uncle and legal guardian, said his nephew &#8220;never complained&#8221; despite all the pain he went through.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were praying for a different outcome,” he <strong>told the Chicago Tribune.</strong></p>
<p>“But Ben’s lungs could no longer give him the air he needed to breathe. It’s been devastating.”</p>
<p>In 2017, Watkins&#8217; father killed his mother, and then himself in a murder-suicide. Edwards said his nephew was always a happy child even though he experienced that terrible tragedy.</p>
<p>“Ben was just so selfless,” he told the Tribune. “It was unreal, the character he has … he had.”</p>
			
					
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