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.

A show source told the newspaper: “It’s no secret that Hell’s Kitchen was an expensive show. This time they’re keeping the costs down and making it easier for decent celebs to take part – because they won’t have to live with everyone else.

“Bosses are gunning for some good names so it should be a cracking show.”

The show will be filmed in January and February next year and aired on Friday nights in April.

The Guardian has claimed that Big Brother bosses have decided not to donate the usual 10p from every phone vote to charity this year.

The channel has donated money from its phone votes since 2006 but blames the significant drop in advertising revenue for the discontinuation of the scheme.

Channel 4 are claiming that the shows voting lines are actually losing money and no longer can they afford to bear the cost.

“The costs associated with running the Big Brother vote line have meant it has run at a considerable loss for the last couple of years,” said a Channel 4 spokesman.

“Given the current climate, after very careful consideration, Channel 4 has regretfully decided not to make charity donations for this series of Big Brother in order to limit this loss and ensure we are managing our finances optimally to allow us to continue delivering our public service remit.”

Anthea Turner has become the last celebrity to be sacked by Marco Pierre White on tonight’s Hell’s Kitchen.

Anthea was told to leave by Marco after he realised that she hasn’t changed or improved since joining his kitchen last week.

Left for the final night is Danielle, Aide, Linda and Niomi and who wins is down to the public vote. I’m backing Aide to win but who’s your favourite?

It appears that Gary Lineker is keeping a close eye on Marco Pierre White as he reckons the fiery chef may have “taken a shine” to his fiancé Danielle Bux, who’s one of the competitors in Hell’s Kitchen.

His fears weren’t allayed when he nipped into Marco’s kitchen to offer model Danielle a little moral support but was promply ordered out by Marco who told him to respect that Danielle “has a job to do”.

Gary did however manage to steal a quick kiss from Danielle before heading back to his table in the restaurant but he later said he feared the “grumpy” MPW had “an ulterior motive” for ordering him out of the kitchen…

“Danielle’s next to Marco … again, which is slightly disconcerting. I saw in the first show he was there with her…

“Should I worry?” he said, adding, “He was also very keen to get me out of there rather quickly. Do you think there’s an ulterior motive?”

However, Marco didn’t seem to me to be that interested in Danielle and in fact said “no” to her request to be in the charge of the kitchen pass and gave the job to the brown-nosed Grant Bovey instead.

That decision irritated some of the other trainee chefs too apparently, including Shameless actor Jody Latham, who said he didn’t want “to be bossed” around by Grant and later, in the Confessional, said, “He [Bovey] didn’t actually do that well if I’m honest.”

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?

Cat Deeley is rumoured to be taking over presenting duties for ITV’s Hell’s Kitchen after Angus Deayton was sacked.

Angus was laid off last month after a series of arguments with the show’s chef Marco Pierre White. Show bosses are now said to have offered the role to cheesy ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ presenter Cat Deeley.

I’m not sure how I like their choice of talent. I have always found Cat Deeley a little creepy as a presenter. I hated watching American Idol when she presented their special UK only slot and she completely weirded me out on that silly kids version of Stars In Their Eyes in 2006. Surely ITV could have saved themselves a few pounds and someone funny for the job. Michael McIntyre would have been the perfect choice!

Angus Deayton has been axed from ITV’s reality TV show, hell’s Kitchen, after a string of rows with chef Marco Pierre White.

The Daily Mail newspaper reports that Angus and Marco spent all of the last series at loggerheads and show bosses were forced to choose between the two for the new series which kicks off this April.

‘Marco and Angus never got on and now Angus has been axed from the show,’ a source told the newspaper.

They added: ‘He [Angus] is seething but Granada realised they basically had to choose between him and Marco. At the end of the day, Marco’s the star of the show and the bigger personality.’

‘Angus tried to make the peace at the end of shooting but Marco was having none of  it and told Angus he had nothing to say to him,’ the source said. ‘Angus is pretty humourless in real life. He can dish it out but he can’t take it. Marco basically wiped the floor with Angus.’

I wonder if they even really need a presenter for the show? I think ITV would score better ratings if they followed the formula of the American version more closely. Ditch the stars, bring in real life people who aspire to be world class chefs and most importantly BRING BACK GORDON RAMSAY!

Celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay, has revealed that he tried to get ‘Posh Spice’, Victoria Beckham to appear on his last series of Hell’s Kitchen USA.

Ramsay told Access Hollywood: “I thought about having Victoria on as one of the ladies from Beverly Hills in [a] cooking lesson.

“She decided to tour with the Spice Girls. It was a shame because we missed each other by literally a week, otherwise…it would [have been] quite nice to see her attending one of the cooking classes in the kitchen with me breathing down her neck.”

Gordon also shed some light on his friendship with the Beckhams saying: “They’re great foodies. Victoria eats…in a very healthy manner, nothing over-drizzled with olive oil, fat, cream or butter and things lightly steamed.

“David on the other hand is quite a gourmet. Having played football in Spain, France and obviously the UK, he loves his food and he keeps incredibly well fit, so he’s allowed to eat a lot as well and packed with protein.”

Runner up of this years Hell’s Kitchen programme, Adele Silva, has spoken out against the alledged homophobic remarks made by fellow chef, Jim Davidson.

“I’ve never witnessed a personal attack like Jim made on Brian – it was so wrong,” Adele told the News of the World. “There’s a lot of things that haven’t been seen. I know there were worse things he said than the shirt-lifter – stuff that wasn’t shown.

“He said to Brian in the kitchen, ‘Are you working on pastries because you’re a poof?’ and ‘Are you sleeping in the girls’ bedrooms?’ Why would he? He’s a man.

“Then on Sunday back at the house when Jim was kicking off, Abbey [Clancy] was so worried about what was going on she hung her apron over the camera. Jim told her to take it down. He wanted the attention he’d get from being so controversial.”

Former boxing champion Barry McGuigan was last night crowned the winner of Hell’s Kitchen and he’s already got some thoughts about his culinary future.

“Mcguigan’s mash,” he laughed on GMTV this morning (Tues 18th), “I’m certainly going to do something. Mcguigans’s sauce maybe but we’ll see!”

“I would never do it again (go back into Hell’s Kitchen) but (I’m) definitely going to ring Marco and ask him for some classes so I can reinforce it.”

McGuigan pipped Emmerdale actress Adele Silva into second place. Both had said they were useless at cooking before the competition and Barry laughed that: “I’d never cooked a thing in my life and now (I) know all the names of the utensils in the kitchen.”

Speaking of runner up Silva, McGuigan said: “Adele is brilliant and I’d said to her yesterday, I hope you win. She’s worked so hard. I could feel myself getting competitive in the last few days, and you don’t like yourself for it.”

“She (Silva) was so magnanimous though. She’s a great girl, very talented and she’s going to do very well. We’ve definitely seen the real Adele in Hell’s Kitchen. In that sort of claustrophobic environment you can’t have a false side.”

Asked about Jim Davidson, and the side of him that was seen in the Kitchen, McGuigan said: “Jim is a fabulous guy in many ways but he has a burgeoning angst that he needs to get rid of. He needs to go and get some help and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

After he topped the public vote last, the 46 year old dad of four said: “I feel great. It’s fantastic to win. I’ve had an incredible time.”

Barry won critics over with his “monster” mashed potato, with celebrity diners specifically ordering dishes that were accompanied by it.

“My hands are aching from the mash,” he laughed. “But I’m certainly going to be working in the kitchen at home from now on!”

Barry paid tribute to head chef Marco Pierre White, describing him as “an exceptional man” for guiding the ten celebrities through weeks of gruelling service. “He worked with us from the early morning until service in the evening. He really did work so hard.”

“I personally don’t think I’ve ever perspired as much in my life. It’s so tough and physically demanding in the kitchen but it was an exceptional experience.”