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.”

He continued” “Marco is just very complicated. And as for me not showing any humility, I didn’t understand that remark at all. I was on the mash service for the first time and the service was two and half hours that night, which was twice as long as any other night we’d done, and we had a lot more people in.

“And yes, there was someone there to help me but I didn’t want to call upon Marco because I wanted to prove to Marco that I could do it on my own. And every portion of mash potato was delivered on time and hot and I did it myself. Yes, I made a mess doing it, but to me, making a mess wasn’t a problem.”

Anthea Turner broke down in tears last night as her busband, Grant Bovey got sacked from ITV’s Hell’s Kitchen.

Marco Pierre White sacked Grant after saying that he was not a team player and the kitchen was not big enough for two bosses.

Marco said: He added: “In service you preferred to sink than ask for help – you are not a team player, that’s what you’ve proven to me tonight. You’re a leader, you’re a boss – that kitchen is not big enough for two bosses. I am the boss of Hell’s Kitchen.”

Grant said afterwards: “I’m obviously disappointed… I thought things were going remarkably well.” Speaking about who he’d like to win, he said: “Clearly I’d like Anthea to do very w

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.

Hell’s Kitchen contestant Anthea Turner has ended up in a different team from her hubby Grant Bovey for tonight’s show and has come up with a novel way to make sure he isn’t up to par for the challenge.

Anthea, told her team mates: “Don’t worry — I know how to take my husband’s batteries out and render him useless the next day.”

She added: “Needs must — this is a competition!”

Last night Grant claimed his wife’s plan was already working.

He told his team’s leader Ms Dynamite, 27: “We bonked all night — it was nothing to do with me.

“It was just tactics on her part. She was just trying to wear me out so I can’t think — and it’s worked.”

Anthea Turner’s husband Grant Bovey – who won praise from fearsome chef Marco Pierre White for his fish dish in the first show – has apparently been trying to earn extra brownie points by staying behind to do the washing up.

The Press Association reports that of the eight contestants, only three stayed behind after service to tidy up, and Grant’s wife Anthea wasn’t one of them. Grant said,

“When service finished three of us stayed behind to clear up” adding,

“The end of service came and there was such a relief that five people thought it was appropriate to down tools and go back to their quarters … something told me that Marco would be annoyed if you left your station like that.”

Wow, I wonder if Anthea’s back hurt his knife??

And what he didn’t add is that he may well have stayed on his knees for the rest of the night lest his nose should accidentally slip out of MPW’s orifice…

Mind you, maybe he’s right to be sucker-up-of-the-year because it seems that fear of Marco’s temper has Niomi MacLean-Daley – singer Ms Dynamite – very much on edge. In the Confessional, she said, “When he (MPW) walks in and doesn’t say anything I literally ‘do do’ myself,” she said.

I wonder if Grant’ll stay and wash-up her behind then?

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.