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Hell's Kitchen (UK)
Genre	Reality
Creator(s)	Gordon Ramsay
Starring	Angus Deayton Gordon Ramsay (Series 1); Gary Rhodes, Jean-Christophe Novelli (Series 2); Marco Pierre White (Series 3)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	3
Production
Producer(s)	ITV Productions
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV1
Original run	2004 – 2007

Hell's Kitchen (UK) is a British cookery-based ITV reality show starring celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, and presented by Angus Deayton.

The show, which ran nightly for two weeks, placed ten celebrities in a specially constructed London restaurant kitchen with the task of catering for a clientèle of famous people. The celebrities were Edwina Currie, Abi Titmuss, Matt Goss, Belinda Carlisle, Al Murray, Dwain Chambers, Tommy Vance (who replaced Roger Cook, who injured himself on the first night), Jennifer Ellison, James Dreyfus, and Amanda Barrie. Jennifer Ellison was declared the winner after a series of public elimination votes (as per Survivor or Big Brother). A follow-up programme was made afterwards called Hell's Kitchen: School Reunion, which saw Ellison and show runner-up James Dreyfus team up to organise a healthy dinner service for the children at Gordon Ramsay's former school.

The second series featured ten members of the public competing for a prize of £250,000 with which the winner could start their own restaurant. They were split into two teams of five, 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.

Series 3 was supposed to be happening late 2005, with Jean Christoppe Novelli as the sole head chef however ITV then made the decsision to axe Hells Kitchen all together. They then retracted this decision in February 2007 and decided the new series would go ahead but with three time Michelin star chef Marco Pierre White as the sole head chef.

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