Hell's Kitchen (British TV series)

For other uses, see Hell's Kitchen (disambiguation).

For the American version of this show, see Hell's Kitchen (American TV series).

Hell's Kitchen
Genre	Cookery Reality
Created by	Gordon Ramsay
Presented by	Angus Deayton Claudia Winkleman
Starring	Gordon Ramsay Gary Rhodes Jean-Christophe Novelli Marco Pierre White
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
Production
Running time	30–90 mins (inc. adverts)
Production companies	Granada Productions (2004–2006) ITV Productions (2006–2009)
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	23 May 2004 (2004-05-23) – 27 April 2009 (2009-04-27)
Related
Hell's Kitchen (American TV series) ITV Food

Hell's Kitchen is a British cookery reality show, aired on ITV, which featured prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize. Four series aired between 2004 and 2009, three presented by Angus Deayton and the fourth and final series presented by Claudia Winkleman.

Cast

Series	Head chefs	Presenter
1	Gordon Ramsay	Angus Deayton
2	Gary Rhodes and Jean-Christophe Novelli
3	Marco Pierre White
4		Claudia Winkleman

Series overview

Series 1 (2004)

Gordon Ramsay

Series 1 of Hell's Kitchen in the UK was broadcast from 23 May to 6 June 2004, airing live nightly for two weeks.

The premise was head chef Gordon Ramsay teaching ten celebrities how to cook. The celebrities were placed in a specially constructed London restaurant-kitchen with the task of catering for a clientele of famous people. Eliminations were determined by a series of public votes (in the style of Big Brother ). One notorious moment saw Amanda Barrie repeatedly trying to strike Ramsay when she became irate.

Jennifer Ellison was declared the winner. 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 Ramsay's former school, Stratford Upon Avon High School.

The celebrities who took part were:

No.	Celebrity	Known for	Original Team	Second Team	Exit
1	Jennifer Ellison	Actress, model, singer & dancer	Blue Team (Day 1-8)	White Team (Day 9-Final)	Winner
2	James Dreyfus	Actor	Blue Team (Day 1-8)	White Team (Day 9-Final)	Runner-up
3	Matt Goss	Musician	Blue Team (Day 1-8)	White Team (Day 9-Final)	Eliminated Day 15
4	Edwina Currie	Former politician	Blue Team (Day 1-8)	White Team (Day 9-13)	Eliminated Day 14
5	Al Murray	Comedian & actor	Red Team (Day 1-8)	White Team (Day 9-12)	Eliminated Day 11
6	Abi Titmuss	Television personality	Red Team (Day 1-8)	White Team (Day 9)	Eliminated Day 9
7	Belinda Carlisle	Musician	Red Team (Day 1-8)	-	Eliminated Day 8
8	Amanda Barrie	Actress	Red Team (Day 1-8)	-	Quit Day 8
9	Tommy Vance	Radio broadcaster	Red Team (Day 2-5)	-	Quit Day 5
10	Dwain Chambers	Retired track sprinter	Blue Team (Day 1-4)	-	Quit Day 4
11	Roger Cook	Retired journalist	Red Team (Day 1)	-	Quit Day 1 (Injury)

Series 2 (2005)

Series 2 of Hell's Kitchen in the UK was broadcast from 18 April – 2 May 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 his or her own restaurant. They were split into two teams of six, 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.

The series was won by Terry Miller.

The contestants who took part were:

• Blue Team (Head chef Jean-Christophe Novelli)
  • Henry Filloux-Bennett
  • Aby King
  • Rory O'Donnell
  • Gary Tomlin
  • Kellie Cresswell
  • Stien Smart
• Red Team (Head chef Gary Rhodes)
  • Terry Miller
  • Simon Gross
  • Aaron Siwoku
  • Tom Paisley
  • Caroline Gravy
  • Sam Raplin

Series 3 (2007)

Series 3 was due to begin in mid-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 late 2007.

The new series began on 3 September 2007 at 9:00 pm. Michelin starred Marco Pierre White was the new head chef. White had two sous chefs, Matthew and Timothy. The series reverted to the original format of having celebrities as contestants.

The series ended on 17 September 2007, with Barry McGuigan crowned winner.

The contestants who took part were:

No.	Celebrity	Known for	Original Team	Second Team	Third Team	Exit
1	Barry McGuigan	Retired professional boxer	Blue Team (Day 1-14)	Red Team (Day 14-16)	Blue Team (Day 16-Final)	Winner
2	Adele Silva	Former Emmerdale actress	Red Team (Day 1-14)	Blue Team (Day 14-16)	Red Team (Day 16-Final)	Runner-up
3	Brian Dowling	Television presenter	Blue Team (Day 1-8)	Red Team (Day 8-15)	-	Eliminated Day 15
4	Paul Young	Musician	Blue Team (Day 1-14)	Red Team (Day 14-15)	-	Eliminated Day 15
5	Anneka Rice	Television presenter	Red Team (Day 1-8)	Blue Team (Day 8-13)	Red Team (Day 13)	Eliminated Day 13
6	Abbey Clancy	Lingerie & catwalk model	Red Team (Day 1-7)	Blue Team (Day 7-12)	-	Eliminated Day 12
7	Jim Davidson	Stand-up comedian	Blue Team (Day 1-8)	Red Team (Day 8-10)	-	Disqualified Day 10
8	Kelly LeBrock	Actress & model	Red Team (Day 1-8)	Blue Team (Day 8-9)	-	Eliminated Day 9
9	Rosie Boycott	Retired journalist	Red Team (Day 1-6)	-	-	Eliminated Day 6
10	Lee Ryan	Former Blue singer & actor	Blue Team (Day 1-3)	-	-	Walked Day 3

Series 4 (2009)

Main article: Hell's Kitchen (British series 4)

Series 4 began on 13 April 2009. ^[1] Marco Pierre White returns as Head Chef/teacher. Claudia Winkleman took over as host, replacing Angus Deayton. ^[2] Nick Munier returned as Maitre d', as did Sous Chefs Matthew and Timothy. This series there was one kitchen with grey and dark red tiles. The first four sackings were Marco's responsibility, while the other four sackings were down to a public vote (the person with the lowest number of votes left Hell's Kitchen).

Linda Evans won from public voting on 27 April 2009.

The celebrities who took part were:

No.	Celebrity	Known for	Status
1	Linda Evans	Dynasty actress (1981–89)	Winner Day 15
2	Ade Edmondson	Comedian, actor & musician	Runner-up Day 15
3	Danielle Lineker (née Bux)	Actress, model & ex-wife of Gary Lineker	Eliminated Day 13
4	Niomi McLean-Daley (aka Ms. Dynamite)	Recording artist	Eliminated Day 12
5	Anthea Turner	Television presenter	Eliminated Day 11
6	Bruce Grobbelaar	Former football goalkeeper	Quit Day 10
7	Grant Bovey	Ex-husband of Anthea Turner	Eliminated Day 9
8	Jody Latham	Shameless actor	Eliminated Day 7

International versions

Most countries adapt to the American version, airing pre recorded weekly instead of airing live daily, no presenter and just a voiceover, a challenge with the winner earning a reward and the loser doing a punishment, the customers being mostly from the public instead of celebrities with their loved ones and eliminations made by the head chef and not through viewer voting. The Australian, German and Spanish versions were modeled after the British series, where the contestants are celebrities with no professional culinary backgrounds, many may also be complete novices in cooking in general.

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  Franchise with an upcoming or returning airing season

  Franchise no longer in production

Country	Title	Broadcaster	Head Chef	Sous Chefs	Maître	Original run
Albania	Hell's Kitchen Albania	Top Channel	Renato Mekolli	Bleri Dervshi (1) Eri Muhaj (1) Ani Alku (2) Albana Dulellari (2) Francesko Tuku (3) Visara Pirra (3)	Visi (1) Juljan Mata (2)	Season 1: 19 October 2018 – 4 January 2019 Season 2: 11 October 2019 – 10 January 2020 Season 3: 2 October 2020 – 2 January 2021
Australia	Hell's Kitchen Australia	Seven Network	Marco Pierre White	Chris Andy	Glen	Season 1: 6 August – 5 September 2017
Brazil	Hell's Kitchen - Cozinha Sob Pressão	SBT	Carlos Bertolazzi (1-3) Danielle Dahoui (4)	Alex Caputo (1-2) Zi Saldanha (3-4) Gilda Maria Bley (3-4)	Dídio Perini (1)	Season 1: 11 October 2014 – 10 January 2015 Season 2: 25 April – 18 July 2015 Season 3: 31 October 2015 – 30 January 2016 Season 4: 3 September – 17 December 2016
Bulgaria	Hell's Kitchen България	NOVA TV	Viktor Angelov	Milena Dimova (1-3) Lyuben Koychev (1-3) Veselina Chileva (4) Dani Spartak (4) Svetlana Ilieva (5-) Nikola Simeonov (5-)		Season 1: 27 February – 24 May 2018 Season 2: 26 February – 30 May 2019 Season 3: 25 February – 21 May 2020 Season 4: 25 February – 22 May 2022 Season 5: 20 February – 16 May 2023 Season 6: 20 February – 16 May 2024 Season 7: 10 February – May 2025
Croatia	Hell's Kitchen Hrvatska	RTL	Tomislav Gretić	Ivan Vrbanec Ivana Bekavac	Unknown	Season 1: 31 January – 15 June 2024
Czech Republic	Na nože!	TV Prima	Zdeněk Pohlreich	Eva Filipová Roman Vaněk		Season 1: 7 September – 21 December 2010
	Hell’s Kitchen Česko	TV Nova	Radek Kašpárek	David Viktorin Eliška Hromková	Tomáš Kubíček	Season 1: 28 August – 17 December 2024
Denmark	Helvedes Køkken (season 1) Hell’s Kitchen Danmark (seasons 2–present)	TV 2 (season 1) TV3 (seasons 2–present) Viaplay (seasons 2–present)	Wassim Hallal (season 1) Jakob Mielcke (seasons 2–present)			16 March – 26 May 2010 26 August 2010 – 2020
Finland	Hell's Kitchen	MTV3	Sauli Kemppainen	Kira Weckman Tero Laukkanen	Nina Koiranen	Season 1: 20 September – 13 December 2013
France	Hell's Kitchen. Les cuisines de l'enfer	NT1	Arnaud Tabarec			Season 1: 14 January – 18 February 2016
Germany	Teufels Küche	RTL	Christian Rach	Miguel		Season 1: 8 – 21 April 2005
	Hell's Kitchen	Sat.1	Frank Rosin	Michael [3]	Gerhard Retter [4]	Season 1: 7 May – 11 June 2014
Greece	Hell's Kitchen Greece	ANT1	Ectoras Bottrini	Nikos Mpilli Konstantina Diboli		Season 1: 5 March – 24 June 2018
Indonesia	Hell's Kitchen Indonesia	SCTV	Juna Rorimpandey	Rano Abryanto Winnie Kusumawardani	Andrie Khusyi	Season 1: 3 January – 8 August 2015
Israel	HaMitbakh	Channel 2	Ezra Kedem			Season 1: 2008
Italy	Hell's Kitchen Italia	Sky Uno TV8	Carlo Cracco	Entiana Osmenzeza (1) Omar Allievi (1) Marion Lichtle (2) Misha Sukyas (2) Sybil Carbone (3-5) Mirko Ronzoni (3-5)	Luca Cinacchi	Season 1: 17 April – 5 June 2014 Season 2: 21 May – 9 July 2015 Season 3: 4 October – 22 November 2016 Season 4: 3 October 2017 – 21 November 2018 Season 5: 6 November – 21 December 2018
Lithuania	Pragaro Virtuvė	BTV	Liutauras Čeprackas			Season 1: 2012
Poland	Hell’s Kitchen. Piekielna kuchnia	Polsat	Wojciech Modest Amaro (1-5) Michał Bryś (6) Mateusz Gessler (7–8)	Piotr Ślusarz (1-2) Dariusz Kuźniak (1-2) Piotr Ogiński (3) Paulina Sawicka (3) Sebastian Olma (4-5) Marcin Przybysz (4-5) Łukasz Budzik (6) Marcin Piotrowski (6) Robert Kondziela (7–8) Bartłomiej Krężel (7) Martin Gimenez Castro (8)	Paweł Gruba (1-6) Łukasz Henryk Sagan (7-8)	Season 1: 8 April – 10 June 2014 Season 2: 9 September – 18 November 2014 Season 3: 10 March – 12 May 2015 Season 4: 8 September – 10 November 2015 Season 5: 1 March – 3 May 2016 Season 6: 6 September – 22 November 2016 Season 7: 31 August – 2 November 2022 Season 8: 1 March – 26 April 2023
Portugal	Hell's Kitchen Portugal	SIC	Ljubomir Stanisic	Hugo Nascimento Manuel Maldonado	Miguel Santos	Season 1: 14 March – 6 June 2021 Season 2: 2 January – 20 March 2022
	Hell's Kitchen Famosos Portugal Original					Season 1: 8 October - 10 December 2023 Season 2: 6 October – 15 December 2024
Romania	Hell's Kitchen - Iadul Bucatarilor	Antena 1	Sorin Bontea Florin Dumitrescu Catalin Scarlatescu	Mimi Nicolae Alex Petricean "D'Artagnan"	Virgil Mănescu	Season 1: 22 September – 22 December 2014 Season 2: 9 March – 4 May 2015
Russia	Адская Кухня	REN TV	Aram Mnatsakanov	Vladimir Yaroslavsky Jerome Laurier	Sergey Gusovsky	Season 1: 9 February – 31 May 2012 Season 2: 17 January – 25 April 2013
		Friday!	Konstantin Ivlev	Yana Pershina (1) Ilya Zakharov (1) Olga Medvedeva (2) Vladimir Bektemirov (2) Elena Savchuk (3) Kirill Berger (3) Andrey Sulima (3, 5) Regina Boginskaya (4) Vladislav Korpusov (4)	Elena Letuchaya (1) Artyom Korolyov (1-4) Mikael Aramian (5)	Season 1: 20 September – 27 December 2017 Season 2: 22 August – 12 December 2018 Season 3: 21 August – 18 December 2019 Season 4: 19 August – 23 December 2020 Season 5: 18 August – 22 December 2021
Spain	Esta cocina es un infierno	Telecinco	Sergi Arola (Black Team) Mario Sandoval (White Team)			Season 1: 9 February – 23 March 2006
Thailand	Hell's Kitchen Thailand	Channel 7	Willment Leong Khwanthip Devakula Nattawut Thamphan Pongtawat "Ian" Chalermkittichai	Pruek Sumpantaworaboot Teerapat Tiyasuntaranon		Season 1: 4 February – 19 May 2024
Ukraine	Пекельна Кухня	1+1	Aram Mnatsakanov	Volodymyr Yaroslavskyi Jerome Laurier	Serhiy Husovskyi	Season 1: 13 April – 20 July 2011 Season 2: 11 January – 11 March 2012 Season 3: 4 April – 12 July 2013
		Novyi Kanal	Alex Yakutov	Olena Zhabotynska Mykyta Yefanov	Serhiy Sereda	Season 1: 6 September – 29 December 2021
United States	Hell's Kitchen	Fox	Gordon Ramsay	Scott Leibfried (1-10) James Avery (11-14, 23-24) Aaron Mitrano (15–16) Jocky Petrie (17-18) Jason Santos (19-22) Mary Ann Salcedo (1-Michelle Tribble (23) Gloria Felix (4-5) Heather West (6) Andi Van Willigan (7-14, 16) Christina Wilson (15, 17-22)	Jean-Philippe Susilovic (1-7, 11-12) James Lukanik (8-10) Marino Monferrato (13-)	Season 1: 30 May – 1 August 2005 Season 2: 12 June – 14 August 2006 Season 3: 4 June – 13 August 2007 Season 4: 1 April – 8 July 2008 Season 5: 29 January – 14 May 2009 Season 6: 21 July – 13 October 2009 Season 7: 1 June – 10 August 2010 Season 8: 22 September – 15 December 2010 Season 9: 18 July - 19 September 2011 Season 10: 4 June - 10 September 2012 Season 11: 12 March – 25 July 2013 Season 12: 13 March – 24 July 2014 Season 13: 10 September – 17 December 2014 Season 14: 3 March – 9 June 2015 Season 15: 15 January – 29 April 2016 Season 16: 23 September 2016 – 2 February 2017 Season 17: 29 September 2017 – 2 February 2018 Season 18: 28 September 2018 – 8 February 2019 Season 19: 7 January – 22 April 2021 Season 20: 31 May – 13 September 2021 Season 21: 29 September 2022 – 9 February 2023 Season 22: 28 September 2023 – 25 January 2024

References

1. "TV listings guide". Radio Times. 18 April 2024.
2. "Drama & Soaps - Categories". ITV Hub.
3. "Hell's Kitchen - Der Hell's Kitchen Chef: Frank Rosin". sat1.de. 3 April 2014.
4. SAT.1 [@sat1] (13 May 2014). "Funfact: Euch kommt #HellsKitchen-Restaurantleiter Gerhard Retter bekannt vor?" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links

• Hell's Kitchen at itv.com
• Hell's Kitchen at stv.tv
• Hell's Kitchen at IMDb