ITV has cancelled Marco Pierre White’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ saying that making the show is too expensive. The surly chef will be back on our screens but in a slightly adapted show titled ‘Marco’s Kitchen Burnout.’
Burnout will be much cheaper to produce. No longer will the apprentice chefs live together, nor will ITV build their own restaurant. Instead they will use a real London eatery and according to The Sun, celebrity guests will have to pay for their food.
July 29th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: gordon ramsay
Here is the clip that everyone is talking about! On the latest episode of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen a disgruntled wannabe chef squares up to him and for once it’s not Gordon shouting the expletives.
Celebrity Masterchef winner Liz McClarnon has backed Ade Edmondson’s recent comments, that Hell’s Kitchen is less about food and more about entertainment.
Liz told What’s On TV: “I think in Hell’s Kitchen it’s more about TV than it is about cooking, it’s more about the drama and it’s a bit scary to be honest.”
She continued: “I am just more scared of Marco Pierre White – I think he’s a bit much. It’s less about impressing the chef with your all-around ability than it is like with MasterChef, which was more about food.”
Hell’s Kitchen runner up, Ade Edmondson has said that Marco Pierre White is quitting the ITV show because it is more about entertainment than cooking.
Ade told The Sun: “He’s very intent on his cooking and the show’s not really about cooking, is it? I think he began to realise it’s more of an entertainment show and he’d like to concentrate on something more serious.”
Linda Evans has just been crowned winner of this years Hell’s Kitchen series and if I’m honest I’m a bit gutted by the public’s choice. That’ll teach me for not voting!
I have championed Ade from day one as I love his sarcasm and sardonic wit. He won the final challenge tonight by a mile and received a diners verdict of 9 out of 10, practically a miracle by Hell’s Kitchen standards. Whilst Linda is lovely and impossible to dislike, Ade is a better cook, better chef and more focused when he needs to complete a task.
It could have been worse though…..it could have been Jody!
Hell’s Kitchen finalists Ade Edmondson and Linda Evans have been allowed to pick some of their former colleagues to return to the kitchen and help them out for the show’s final.
After last night’s ‘disastrous’ night in the kitchen, Linda and Ade each got to choose two celebrities to assist them in tonight’s show.
Ade picked Niomi McLean-Daley and Danielle Bux whilst Linda brought back Anthea Turner and Bruce Grobelaar.
I am sad to say that Danielle Bux was the second celebrity to fall foul of the public vote on Hell’s Kitchen and left the show tonight.
Sad, because Danielle and Aide were my two favourite stars to win the show on Monday night and despite Danielle winning tonight’s challenge, it will be either Linda or Aide who walk away with the winners title.
So who will win the show on Monday night? I’m rooting for Aide but could see former Dynasty star Linda slip in under the radar.
Marco Pierre White is quitting TV for good, according to The Sun.
The chef is currently appearing in ITV’s Hell’s Kitchen and has done so for the last two years, however the newspaper reports that he will not be presenting the show if it returns in 2010.
A source said: “He’s ready to throw in the towel now — he’s had enough. ITV have offered him opportunities to present other shows, but he’s not interested.
“Marco doesn’t need the money and he never set out to acquire fame.
Hell’s Kitchen reject Grant Bovey has questioned Marco Pierre White’s reasoning when he questioned Grant’s lack of humility in the kitchen.
Talking to Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield on This Morning, he said: “Marco was encouraging me to be the leader. He would say, ‘Grant, we need leadership in the kitchen, you carry on, you’re doing a sound job’ so I did carry on doing that…and clearly that led me to be sacked.”
Former Star Boy Bruce Grobbelaar has walked off Hell’s Kitchen of his own accord.
It was painfully obvious that Marco Pierre White didn’t want him to go, actually I think Bruce could have won the whole show, but in the end Bruce decided that his wife needed him more than the cooking team and requested to leave the show.
“If I’m not the one sacked tonight I’d like to walk through the door,” he told Marco when the team were sat around the sacking table. “It’s not that I don’t want to stay here, but I feel that these people here deserve it more than I do…
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