Hell’s Kitchen is always a stressful experience for the hopefuls taking part, but few of them end up needing hospitalisation because of the trauma!

On last night’s season nine opener, 29 year old Jason Zepaltas ended up being rushed to hospital for medical attention, after he found himself struggling to breathe, while preparing for the restaurant’s first service.

It was a sad turn of events, as after medics failed to stabilise the Chicago man on site and transferred him to a local ER room, Gordon Ramsay informed his fellow chefs that not only was Jason out for the night, but because he would be remaining in hospital for a few days, he was out of the competition altogether.

His early departure left the Blue Team short one member and as a result, they failed miserably, not even managing to get a single entrée out to waiting customers.

When asked to choose two team-mates who should face elimination, the contestants singled out Steven Paluba and Monterray Keys, however after some deliberation, Ramsay decided that Chino Chang should join them as well.

It was a pointless move, as in the end he choose to eliminate Steven, a 44 year old sauté chef from Ridge, New York.

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Do you have £20,000 going spare? If so then you can afford to hire Hell’s Kitchen star Marco Pierre White to cater your wedding.

The celebrity chef has revealed that he will be opening ‘White Weddings’, which is based at the West Tower country house in Lancashire town Aughton, in January 2010.

“Romance is what it’s all about in this industry, it’s what customers look for, but this is what a lot of modern day venues lack. Romance is the only thing that never dates – so I will invite my guests to step into a truly romantic environment,” said a the Leeds-born chef.

“This marks a new chapter in my career, I’ve never lost my Northern roots and I can’t wait to bring the next generation of events cuisine to the region. It’s about the occasion, about being with your family and friends, the experience as a whole.

“The future of hospitality in my opinion is affordable glamour, straightforwardness, back to basics. This is what I will be bringing to the North West with the opening of this venue.”

The West Tower general manager added: “It’s a major coup to be bringing Marco Pierre White to the West Tower and the north-west. By becoming an exclusive Marco Pierre White private hire venue, we now have the platform to offer our guests an unrivalled wedding, conference and events service.

“His association has led to us being inundated with booking enquiries, several of those from high profile celebrities who have some very exciting projects in the pipeline.”

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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.

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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.”

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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?

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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.”

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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?

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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!

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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!

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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.”

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