Hell's Kitchen Australia | |
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Genre | Reality |
Presented by | Marco Pierre White |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 15 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Matt Apps |
Production locations | Sydney, New South Wales |
Production company | ITV Studios Australia |
Original release | |
Network | Seven Network |
Release | 6 August – 5 September 2017 |
Hell's Kitchen Australia is an Australian cooking reality competition television series which premiered on the Seven Network on 6 August 2017. [1] The series was hosted by British chef Marco Pierre White, who previously hosted two seasons of the British version of the format [2] and appeared on MasterChef Australia . [3]
The series began casting for celebrity contestants in late 2016, and filmed in Sydney for six weeks in March and April 2017. [4] It is produced for the Seven Network by ITV Studios Australia. [3]
Program sponsorships include Aldi, Airtasker, Diaego, Lurpak and Sony Pictures. [5]
The following ten celebrities have been competing in the series to win AU$50,000 for their chosen charity. [6] [7] [8]
Celebrities | Known for | Status |
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Debra Lawrance | Actress | Winner 5 September 2017 |
Gaz Beadle | Geordie Shore star | Runner-up 5 September 2017 |
Willie Mason | Former NRL player NRL Premiership winner and Final MVP | Eliminated 5 September 2017 |
Lincoln Lewis | Actor Son of Wally Lewis | Eliminated 5 September 2017 |
Sam Frost | The Bachelorette Australia star & radio presenter | Eliminated 4 September 2017 |
Issa Schultz | The Chase Australia chaser | Eliminated 29 August 2017 |
Jess Fox | Olympian Silver and Bronze and Gold medallist in Canoe Slalom | |
David Oldfield | One Nation co-founder | Eliminated 22 August 2017 |
Pettifleur Berenger | Real Housewives of Melbourne star | Eliminated 15 August 2017 |
Candice Warner | Former Ironwoman Wife of David Warner | Eliminated 8 August 2017 |
No. | Celebrity | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Grand Final | ||
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Night 1 | Night 2 | ||||||||
1 | Debra | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner (Week 5) | |
2 | Gaz | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up (Week 5) | |
3 | Willie | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Third Place (Week 5) | |
4 | Lincoln | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Eliminated | Eliminated (Week 5) | |
5 | Sam | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | Eliminated (Week 5) | ||
6 | Issa | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Eliminated (Week 4) | |||
Jess | Bottom 3 | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | |||||
8 | David | Safe | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Eliminated (Week 3) | ||||
9 | Pettifleur | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Eliminated (Week 2) | |||||
10 | Candice | Bottom 3 | Eliminated (Week 1) | ||||||
Bottom three | Candice Jess Pettifleur | David Debra Pettifleur | David Issa Willie | Issa Jess Lincoln | None | ||||
Eliminated | Candice | Pettifleur | David | Jess | Sam | Lincoln | Willie | ||
Gaz | |||||||||
Issa | |||||||||
Debra |
Service | Scores | Worst performer | Reason | |
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Blue team | Red team | |||
1 | 7 | 7.5 | Candice | Problems with the fish station [9] |
2 | 7 | 6.5 | Jess | Problems with the beef, on the Pass and didn't help the team. [10] |
3 | 7.5 | 7 | Pettifleur | Wasn't a team player and communication issues. [11] |
Celebrity | Dish | Position | Reason | Result |
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Jess | Chicken skewer with curry powder and spring onion. | 1 | Very similar to Marco's dish. | Safe |
Pettifleur | Chicken skewer with curry powder, salt, pepper and spring onion cooked in butter. | 2 | The chicken was dry, wrong seasoning, cooked in butter, but everything else was fine. | Safe |
Candice | Chicken skewer with cumin and spring onion. | 3 | The chicken was undercooked, and she had the wrong spice. | Eliminated |
Service | Scores | Worst performer | Reason | |
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Blue team | Red team | |||
1 | 7.5 | 7.5 | Pettifleur | Poor performance on the pass and arguing with Marco [13] Debra was picked from blue team because Issa was immuned, and was notably slow serving the starters and desserts. |
2 | 6 | 6.5 | Debra | Poor performance during service, over garnished the starters, poor organization and slow work during desserts. She nominated herself as the most likely to survive the elimination challenge. With Red team's win, David was spared from his problems as an expeditor. [14] |
3 | 7.5 | 7.5 | David | Didn't stay loyal to his team and left his position during desserts. Issa was picked in the blue team as the weakest of the blue team, but was spared because it was his best service thus far. [15] |
Celebrity | Dish | Position | Reason | Result |
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Debra | Chicken schnitzel with Parmesan and thyme, cooked in olive oil and then clarified butter. | 1 | Cooked the best schnitzel out of everyone, despite all having the wrong protein and herb. | Safe |
David | Chicken schnitzel with Parmesan and parsley, cooked in olive oil and butter rubbed in. | 2 | The breadcrumb was too thick. However, Marco's preferred David's schnitzel over Pettifleur's | Safe |
Pettifleur | Chicken schnitzel with Parmesan and thyme, cooked in olive oil. | 3 | Uneven breadcrumb as Pettifleur did not use flour while preparing the chicken. Marco preferred David's schnitzel over Pettifleur's. | Eliminated |
Service | Scores | Worst performer | Reason | |
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Blue team | Red team | |||
1 | 7 | 8 | Issa | Weak cook, cannot allow Debra to protect him again, negative diner feedbacks on desserts, but had his best service thus far. |
2 | 7 | 6.5 | David | Did not support Sam at the start of service. It was Issa (pass) and Debra's (meat) worst services. |
3 | 6 | 7 | Willie | Negative diner feedback to Willie's dish, cannot allow Debra to protect him again. [16] |
Celebrity | Dish | Position | Reason | Result |
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Willie | Beef and pork meatballs with parsley and manchego cheese | 1 | Best meatballs out of everyone | Safe |
Issa | Beef and pork meatballs with parsley and manchego cheese | 2 | The taste wasn't very strong, but the actual meatball was better, because he changed from lamb to pork late in cook. | Safe |
David | Turkey and pork meatballs with parsley and manchego cheese | 3 | Only person to finish the cook in the oven, but meatballs were dry, wrong primary protein and incorrect binding agent (flour instead of bread.) | Eliminated |
Service | Scores | Worst performer | Reason | |||||
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Blue team | Red team | |||||||
1 | 8 | 7.5 | Jess | Sam worked at three stations (Starters, Desserts and pass) by herself and Lincoln had immunity. | ||||
2 | 7.5 | 7.5 | Issa | Issa contributed less than Lincoln, despite being Issa's best service thus far. | ||||
Service | Debra | Willie | Gaz | Sam | Jess | Lincoln | Worst performer | Reason |
3 | 8 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 9 | 8 | 7.5 | Lincoln | Lincoln was the weakest out of Gaz, Willie, and Lincoln. |
Celebrity | Dish | Position | Reason | Result |
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Lincoln | Barramundi fillet with boiled potatoes and saffron, turmeric and cayenne, accompanied by a sweet paprika mayonnaise | 1 | Had the best fish out of everyone, though the potatoes were seasoned badly, and the wrong fish and spices were picked | Safe |
Issa | Blue-eyed cod fillet with boiled potatoes and turmeric, accompanied by a sweet paprika mayonnaise | 2 | Overcooked fish, wrong spice and mayonnaise | Eliminated |
Jess | Barramundi fillet with boiled potatoes and saffron, accompanied by a hot paprika mayonnaise | 2 | Undercooked fish, wrong fish and mayonnaise | Eliminated |
Before service one, all contestants become the instructors, expeditor and taste-tester, and their family members must recreate a dish under the contestant's orders (risotto, family-sized salad, egg florentine, fillet of skin-on salmon) under more lenient time limits (30 minutes for salmon, 35 for egg florentine, 45 for risotto). Dennis (Debra's husband) made family-sized salmon salad, Jacquiline (Lincoln's mother) made a salmon fillet, Kristine (Sam's sister) made Asian-style salmon with asparagus. Emma, (Gaz's girlfriend) came second with the egg florentine. Willie won with his wife, Claire's saffron risotto. The group scored 7.5 overall. In the second service, which is a lunch service, Willie was praised for his efficiency, despite manning 2 fish stations all by himself with most of the guest ordering the salmon main. He was the only person who survived from the fish station. Lincoln was put into the cookoff because he was supposed to be manning the meat station with Gaz, but was demoted to garnish by Gaz. Debra was put into the cookoff by default as Gaz managed most of the workload on the relay and commanded the pass after Marco left the kitchen, and Debra couldn't keep up after they arrived, despite being her best service ever. Gaz and Willie commanded their stations and
There was also a final last chance cook-off between Debra and Lincoln to decide the third and final place in the grand final (Dubbed the "Summer Bay cook-off" as both starred in Home and Away ). The dish that they had to cook was kidneys (served pink), coated with flour, chilli power and English mustard on white bread toast with a devilled sauce in 30 minutes.
The components in question are: Type of bread (white, brioche, cob loaf), main offal (pig heart, liver, kidneys, must pick one from the larder, and cannot change once decisions are made), coating before cooking (flour, chilli power and English mustard; flour, smoked paprika and cayenne; flour, paprika and turmeric) and the agent used to thicken the pre-prepared devil's sauce (butter, oil, cream). The winner of the cook-off was Debra, which saw Lincoln's dismissal from Hell's Kitchen. Willie and Gaz can observe live on the other side of the pass.
Service Night | Eliminated Celebrity | Reason |
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1 | Sam | Left the meat station, and let a whole batch of lamb rump steak overcook. Debra was spared by Marco, despite losing control of her station (starters and dessert). |
2 | Lincoln | Debra had the better dish in the last chance cook off, Lincoln got a couple things wrong (brioche instead of white bread, cream used for thickening agent instead of butter, both got the spices wrong) as well as poor cooking techniques (putting kidneys in to cook far too early, flour in pan, over-soaked the bread in butter, burnt one batch.) |
Celebrity | Dish | Position | Assorted Comments | Result |
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Gaz | Roast chicken with wild mushrooms, green beans, roasting juices and Bearnaise sauce | 1 | Sam: Perfect presentation, chicken was moist and juicy, all was needed was a bread to clean the sauce up. Lincoln: I'd be stoked if this was served to me in a restaurant. Perfect beans, beautiful beans. Issa: I love the Bearnaise sauce that goes well with the chicken. | Safe |
Debra | Tarragon-roasted chicken with roasted asparagus, parsnip mash potatoes and gravy | 2 | Sam, Candice, Lincoln: Great strong flavours, but Candice found bone on the breast tip. David: Overcooked asparagus, otherwise a great dish. | Safe |
Willie | Roast chicken with mushrooms, braised lettuce and rosemary-infused gravy | 3 | Pettifleur: Lettuce looks overcooked and wilted, dry meat David: Lovely wild mushrooms, don't like the wilted lettuce | Eliminated |
Hell's Kitchen Australia debuted to 817,000 viewers and was second in its timeslot to The Block (1,212,000). [17]
No. | Title | Air date | Timeslot | Overnight ratings | Consolidated ratings | Total viewers | Ref(s) | ||
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Viewers | Rank | Viewers | Rank | ||||||
1 | Episode 1 | 6 August 2017 | Sunday 7:00pm | 817,000 | 4 | 48,000 | 5 | 865,000 | [18] [19] |
2 | Episode 2 | 7 August 2017 | Monday 7:30pm | 615,000 | 16 | 44,000 | 16 | 659,000 | [20] [21] |
3 | Episode 3 | 8 August 2017 | Tuesday 7:30pm | 632,000 | 12 | 37,000 | 11 | 669,000 | [22] [23] |
4 | Episode 4 | 13 August 2017 | Sunday 8:00pm | 544,000 | 9 | 32,000 | 10 | 545,000 | [24] [25] |
5 | Episode 5 | 14 August 2017 | Monday 7:30pm | 607,000 | 16 | 36,000 | 14 | 644,000 | [26] [27] |
6 | Episode 6 | 15 August 2017 | Tuesday 7:30pm | 527,000 | 16 | 31,000 | 14 | 558,000 | [28] [29] |
7 | Episode 7 | 20 August 2017 | Sunday 8:00pm | 543,000 | 9 | 51,000 | 9 | 594,000 | [30] [31] |
8 | Episode 8 | 21 August 2017 | Monday 7:30pm | 529,000 | 19 | 45,000 | 18 | 574,000 | [32] [33] |
9 | Episode 9 | 22 August 2017 | Tuesday 7:30pm | 540,000 | 14 | 37,000 | 13 | 576,000 | [34] [35] |
10 | Episode 10 | 28 August 2017 | Monday 7:30pm | 546,000 | 16 | 51,000 | 14 | 597,000 | [36] [37] |
11 | Episode 11 | 29 August 2017 | Tuesday 7:30pm | 504,000 | 15 | 50,000 | 14 | 554,000 | [38] [39] |
12 | Episode 12 | 29 August 2017 | Tuesday 9:00pm | 488,000 | 16 | 61,000 | 15 | 549,000 | [38] [39] |
13 | Episode 13 | 4 September 2017 | Monday 7:30pm | 509,000 | 19 | 49,000 | 18 | 558,000 | [40] [41] |
14 | Episode 14 | 5 September 2017 | Tuesday 7:30pm | 482,000 | 17 | 53,000 | 15 | 535,000 | [42] [43] |
15 | Episode 15 | 5 September 2017 | Tuesday 9:00pm | 528,000 | 15 | 70,000 | 11 | 598,000 | [42] [43] |
Colin Vickery, television writer for the Herald Sun was critical of the show, describing Marco Pierre White as "a cartoon version of himself". Vickery also criticised the low-grade nature of the celebrities and the paltry prize on offer. [44] Denise Eriksen, journalist for The New Daily said the show "was a shocker" and that "Seven's execs should have pulled the plug on the show because it doesn't have huge celebrities, it's not that funny and Marco Pierre White isn't Gordon Ramsay". [45] David Knox of TV Tonight , gave the series a rating of 2 out of 5 stars, criticising the show on its low-grade celebrities and that it "lacks the authenticity required of committing to a stripped primetime format in what is already an over-crowded genre". [46]
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