Hell's Kitchen (UK)
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| Hell's Kitchen | |
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| Genre | Reality |
| Created by | Gordon Ramsay |
| Presented by | Angus Deayton |
| Starring | Gordon Ramsay (Season 1) Gary Rhodes and Jean-Christophe Novelli (Season 2) Marco Pierre White (Seasons 3 & 4)[1] |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 3 (4th confirmed)[2] |
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| Producer(s) | ITV Productions |
| Running time | 30-90 mins (inc. ads) |
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| Original channel | ITV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original run | 23 May 2004 – Present |
Hell's Kitchen is a British cookery reality show airing on ITV which features prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize. Three series have aired since 2004, all of which have been presented by Angus Deayton.
The show has had different formats and different head chefs for each season so far. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay left after the first series to star in the US version of the show.
A fourth season of the UK version has been confirmed for 2008 with Marco Pierre White returning as head chef. [3]
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[edit] Synopsis
[edit] Season 1
Season 1 of Hell's Kitchen in the UK was broadcast in summer 2004. It starred Gordon Ramsay as the Head Chef tutoring celebrities how to cook.
The show, which ran nightly for two weeks, placed ten "celebrities" in a specially constructed London restaurant-kitchen with the task of catering for a clientele of famous people.
The celebrities who took part were:
- Amanda Barrie
- Belinda Carlisle
- Dwain Chambers
- Edwina Currie
- James Dreyfus (runner up)
- Jennifer Ellison (winner)
- Matt Goss (third place)
- Al Murray
- Abi Titmuss
- Tommy Vance (replacing Roger Cook, who injured himself on the first night)
Jennifer Ellison was declared the winner after a series of public elimination votes (in the style of Survivor or Big Brother). A follow-up programme was made afterwards called Hell's Kitchen: School Reunion, which saw Ellison and the show runner-up, James Dreyfus, team up to organise a healthy dinner service for the children at Gordon Ramsay's former school.
[edit] Season 2
Season 2 of Hell's Kitchen in the UK was broadcast in spring 2005. The format was overhauled as the show was turned into a competition between two kitchens run by celebrity chefs Gary Rhodes and Jean-Christophe Novelli.
The second series featured ten members of the public competing for a prize of £250,000, with which the winner could start their own restaurant. They were split into two teams of five, one red (tutored by Gary Rhodes) and the other blue (led by Jean-Christophe Novelli). A new and much larger restaurant was built to accommodate the fact that there were now two kitchens. The only things that remained the same in the second series were the music, by composer Daniel Pemberton, and the presenter, who was still Angus Deayton. Elimination was still down to voting. It was won by Terry Miller.
[edit] Season 3
Series 3 was due to begin in summer 2006, with Jean-Christophe Novelli as the sole head chef; however, ITV made the decision to take a break from producing Hell's Kitchen.
The network then announced in February 2007 that it had commissioned a new series of the show, to begin in autumn 2007, this time with Michelin starred Marco Pierre White as head chef. The new series began on 3 September 2007 at 9:00 pm, reverting to the original format of having celebrities as contestants. The series ended on Monday 17 September, 2007, with Barry McGuigan crowned winner.
Actors are featured throughout the show as "guests."
The celebrities who took part were:
| Celebrity | Original Team | Second Team | Third Team | Exit |
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| Barry McGuigan | Blue Team (Day 1-14) | Red Team (Day 14-16) | Blue Team (Day 16-Final) | Winner |
| Adele Silva | Red Team (Day 1-14) | Blue Team (Day 14-16) | Red Team (Day 16-Final) | Runner Up |
| Brian Dowling | Blue Team (Day 1-8) | Red Team (Day 8-15) | - | Eliminated Day 15 |
| Paul Young | Blue Team (Day 1-14) | Red Team (Day 14-15) | - | Eliminated Day 15 |
| Anneka Rice | Red Team (Day 1-8) | Blue Team (Day 8-13) | Red Team (Day 13) | Eliminated Day 13 |
| Abigail Clancy | Red Team (Day 1-12) | - | - | Eliminated Day 12 |
| Jim Davidson | Blue Team (Day 1-8) | Red Team (Day 8-10) | - | Removed Day 10 |
| Kelly LeBrock | Red Team (Day 1-8) | Blue Team (Day 8-9) | - | Eliminated Day 9 |
| Rosie Boycott | Red Team (Day 1-6) | - | - | Eliminated Day 6 |
| Lee Ryan | Blue Team (Day 1-3) | - | - | Quit Day 3 |
