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…

“I realised with my wife sitting there, she needs me more than these people.”

Marco in the end responded saying:

“You walk out of Hell’s Kitchen a winner Bruce. It hurts me, it saddens me to see you go,” he sighed.

Bruce told Claudia:

“It’s been a pretty tough week with the 20 year Hillsborough anniversary,” he explained. “And with Marco telling us to make a dish from our childhood…

“For Marco to sack someone last night, I didn’t want that to happen. I wanted to give someone else a chance.”

Hell’s Kitchen stirred up some powerful emotions in the men last night, as Grant Bovey and Bruce Grobbelaar broke down in tears.

The team were asked to re-create a dish from their childhood that would tell him something about how they grew up. Grant found it hard as he lost both his parents at a young age and finds it difficult to talk about, or remember them.

‘I just find it quite difficult to talk about my Mum and Dad because in the big stuff that’s happened to me in my life, they haven’t been here and I’ve really missed them,’ he explained.

South African Bruce was moved to tears when talking about his decision to cook chicken feet saying:

‘When I cooked that dish this morning it was for the houseboy that brought me up with my mother, he was like a father to me.’

The choice of dish proved to be a huge success though when Marco Pierre White branded him star boy of the task and made him immune from evictions tonight.

Marco Pierre White is back in the kitchen as a group of unsuspecting celebrities prepare to face a journey into hell as they attempt to feed a restaurant packed full of discerning diners each night.

The celebrities will leave their star status firmly at the kitchen door as Marco puts them to the ultimate test. They will learn how to cook a menu of classic dishes inspired by food Marco likes to eat and will have to live up to his exacting standards.

Claudia Winkleman will host the live show nightly from the Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in East London when it returns for its fourth series on Monday April 13.

The celebrities taking part in the show are: TV presenter Anthea Turner; model Danielle Bux; singer Ms Dynamite; actor and comedian Adrian Edmondson; former Liverpool goalie Bruce Grobbelaar; Entrepreneur Grant Bovey; actor Jody Latham and actress Linda Evans.

Marco, dubbed the godfather of British cuisine, will attempt to work his magic on the rookie chefs as they have just two weeks to learn how to dish up a feast fit for showbiz royalty.

He will push them to their limits to achieve perfection and crank up the heat to ensure every diner is fed.

This time there will be no room for error as Marco will have the power to sack the celebrities who he thinks aren’t up to the job. When it comes to choosing the series winner, the power will be back in the hands of the viewers who will vote for their favourite.

And, for the first time on Hell’s Kitchen, each night the two trainee chefs who have failed to impress Marco will feel the heat as he banishes them into the restaurant to wait on tables. Each guest waiter will be responsible for serving half the restaurant under the direction of maitre d’ Nick Munier.

They will have to take all orders and deliver food to the tables, plus they will be responsible for dishing out the desserts from the trolley.

It’s every cook for themselves as they work in just one team to impress both Marco and the customers.

And with just one kitchen there will be nowhere to hide for the rookie chefs.

Plus Marco will be inviting celebrity chefs including his friends Jean Christophe Novelli and Mario Batali to Hell’s Kitchen where they will put the trainees through their paces in a set of unique challenges.