Hell's Kitchen (UK TV series)
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| Genre | Reality |
| Created by | Gordon Ramsay |
| Presented by |
Angus Deayton (series 1–3) Claudia Winkleman (series 4) |
| Starring |
Gordon Ramsay (series 1) Gary Rhodes (series 2) Jean-Christophe Novelli (series 2) Marco Pierre White (series 3–4) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
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| Producer(s) | ITV Studios |
| Running time | 30–90 mins (inc. adverts) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 23 May 2004 – 27 April 2009 |
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| Related shows | Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series) |
Hell's Kitchen is a British cookery reality show, aired on ITV, which features prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize. Four series were aired from 2004 to 2009, three presented by Angus Deayton and the most recent by Claudia Winkleman.
The show had different formats and different head chefs for each of the first three seasons. The original chef Gordon Ramsay subsequently signed an exclusive United Kingdom contract with Channel 4, ruling out any possibility of him appearing on future episodes of the ITV-produced show.
Series 1 of Hell's Kitchen in the UK was broadcast from 23 May – 6 June 2004, airing live nightly for two weeks.
The premise was head chef Gordon Ramsay teaching ten celebrities how to cook. The celebrities were placed in a specially constructed London restaurant-kitchen with the task of catering for a clientele of famous people. Eliminations were determined by a series of public votes (in the style of Big Brother).
Jennifer Ellison was declared the winner. A follow-up programme was made afterwards called Hell's Kitchen: School Reunion, which saw Ellison and the show runner-up, James Dreyfus, team up to organise a healthy dinner service for the children at Ramsay's former school, Stratford Upon Avon High School.
The celebrities who took part were:
Series 2 of Hell's Kitchen in the UK was broadcast from 18 April – 2 May 2005.
The format was overhauled as the show was turned into a competition between two kitchens run by "celebrity chefs" Gary Rhodes and Jean-Christophe Novelli. The second series featured ten members of the public competing for a prize of £250,000, with which the winner could start his or her own restaurant. They were split into two teams of six, one red (tutored by Gary Rhodes) and the other blue (led by Jean-Christophe Novelli). A new and much larger restaurant was built to accommodate the fact that there were now two kitchens.
The only things that remained the same in the second series were the music, by composer Daniel Pemberton, and the presenter, who was still Angus Deayton. Elimination was still down to voting.
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