‘HELL” Chef Gordon Ramsay nearly became a meal himself while filming his UK show “The F Word.”

Ramsay says he was almost killed when he slipped off a steep cliff in Iceland and plummeted into an icy creek below while hunting rare and colorful puffin birds to cook on TV.

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Ramsay, 41, says that he panicked when his heavy boots weighed him down in the icy water beneath the 280-foot sheer rock face on which the aquatic sea birds roost.

“I thought I was a goner,” Ramsay told London’s Sun newspaper.

A spokeswoman could not say yesterday if footage of his icy near-death plunge will be seen when the episode airs.

On the shoot, Ramsay was also bitten on his face by one of a puffins and required stitches.