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Because she is just so insufferable!
And that, on some reality shows, is actually a good thing. Around halfway through this season of Hell’s Kitchen, Suzanne has managed to irk not just her teammates – including usually stoic Ariel – but virtually everyone watching Hell’s Kitchen. And as annoying as Tennille is, at least she vents out the frustration a lot of people had when it comes to her sworn enemy.
And tonight on Hell’s Kitchen, Suzanne was up for nomination again, along with funny man Andy, who was asked to leave Hell’s Kitchen. Suzanne wasn’t her usual uppity and almighty self on the dinner service, making several errors, including undercooking and overcooking the lamb and under-spicing the frog legs. In fact, so disgruntled Chef Ramsay was on the error-laden service, that he sent Suzanne, plus Andy and Sabrina out of Hell’s Kitchen, leaving Tennille and Ariel to complete the service.
Andy, who accidentally sliced off his fingertips while doing potatoes, was instead asked to go home, while Suzanne stayed. She was probably thanking her lucky stars that Hell’s Kitchen wasn’t a popularity contest like Survivor (sort of), because she wouldn’t last a minute if that was the case. As horrible as her showing is, don’t count on Chef Ramsay to eliminate her any time soon (unless she really bombs), because despite her faults, she’s very entertaining. Meanwhile, Ariel flies under the radar and will probably make it til the very end.
On the other side of the fence, all the guys are pretty entertaining and funny at this point of Hell’s Kitchen, so it’s a toss-up between Dave and Van who’ll make it to the finals.
On tonight’s episode of Hell’s Kitchen, the chefs are made to create – crepes! The winning team will enjoy an afternoon at a French restaurant, while the losing team has to endure losing one of their members after an injury during preparations for dinner service. For the dinner service, it’s French cuisine, and Hell’s Kitchen host Gordon Ramsay ends up kicking three chefs out of the kitchen when one disorganized one fails to keep up with the rest of the team. And as with any Hell’s Kitchen episode, this one ends with someone packing up his or her knives and saying goodbye.
On the last episode of Hell’s Kitchen, the contestants participated in a blind taste test to determine which of the chefs’ palates are the most, well, refined. They were paired off and blindfolded, and eventually, the red team won, identifying two more ingredients than the blue team. The red team had a dining in the dark experience with Ramsay at the V Lounge in Santa Monica, while the blue team stayed put to make sorbet for that night’s service.
As for that service, the blue team underwent major trouble when Andy ran out of mashed potatoes for the last few remaining orders. Also noteworthy was Dave still being able to cook up a new batch in short order despite one arm being in a cast. The girls didn’t have a smooth service, as well. At one point, Ramsay had Sabrina eat her lamb, which he argued was undercooked (no thanks to Suzanne, who had problems of her own because of her sea bass). Eventually, the blue team won, mainly thanks to Dave.
Tennille was voted best of worst for her team, and surprise, surprise, she picked Suzanne and Sabrina for elimination. Fortunately for the lovely pair, Ramsay had different things in mind, and had Amanda leave Hell’s Kitchen.
Catch Hell’s Kitchen tonight 8pm on Fox.
On tomorrow’s episode of Hell’s Kitchen, we saw one Hell’s Kitchen staple: the blind taste-test challenge. Still on the haunt for the Head Chef position at Araxi Restaurant in Whistler, Canada, host Gordon Ramsay wants to make sure all the candidates’ palates are up to par. The winner of the challenge will have a chance to dine with Chef Ramsay in the dark at an eatery where they can only rely only their senses of taste, smell, and touch. For the episode’s dinner service, meanwhile, one team runs out of potatoes while the other team serves raw meat – uh oh.
On the last episode of the Fox cooking show, Robert finally bid goodbye from Hell’s Kitchen. Fans were slightly divided with his elimination, some pointing out he was infinitely better last season, when he reached top 5. Some are even posing questions on whether or not it was right to bring him back in the first place (while mentioning that sweat dripping down his nose was indeed very unappetizing). You can’t really argue with that one.
Elsewhere on that episode, with Robert gone because he was rushed to the hospital last episode, the boys thought they might do a better job with the challenge – rolling a dice, choose an ingredient that starts with the letter they get, and cooking something incorporating all the ingredients. The boys won, with their haddock, figs, angel hair pasta, apples, and tomatoes. Come service time, there was a special chef’s table with executive chefs from Ramsay’s New York and Los Angeles restaurants. As with almost all episodes prior, Ramsay was mighty pissed, but this time with good reason – plastic in some of the dishes.
On Monay’s episode of Hell’s Kitchen, the 10 remaining chefs either earn a high-rolling reward in Vegas or end up prepping the kitchens – again – for that night’s service. Hell’s Kitchen host Chef Gordon Ramsay has the teams rolling the dice to determine which ingredients they will need to combine to create a tasty dish. One team dares to take a risky ingredient but end up winning big time with a night out on Sin City, while the losing team stay in the kitchens.
Meanwhile on the service, things get pretty tough as Chef Ramsay invites chefs from his restaurants to sit at the first-ever Hell’s Kitchen chefs’ tables. One team continues to make the same mistakes over and over again, while another has to deal with an annoyingly bossy teammate – good vibes to those who can guess who this is. At the end of the episode, one chef will be sent home.
On the last episode of the Fox cooking show, the girls outshone the boys during the 700 calorie challenge, thanks to their tasty entree and dessert (although their three-course meal had around 100 more calories than the boys’). As punishment, the boys had to buy all the ingredients of the Red Team’s winning menu as well as prepping up both kitchens, while the girls got to spend a day at Venice Beach with Olympian volleyball players.
Come dinner service, Robert was rushed to the ER after he started to get dizzy, and Tennille was called a cow. Not to take that sitting down, she snapped back at Chef Ramsay and was consequently sent out of Hell’s Kitchen. Nevertheless, the girls still won, and Jim got the boot because he seemed like he was sleepwalking all the time.
It could just be that I’m in a small phase of disgust at the FOX broadcasting network.
For the first time I find myself rooting against a show’s ratings – the Octomom special on Wednesday night. I want it to bomb worse than Quarterlife or Chopping Block. What, you never heard of those shows? Exactly!
There’s a certain type of person… Some sports, like baseball, figured out how to handle it. For years you’d see the occasional idiot from the stands running out onto the field. Finally after years of it, the networks figured it out: don’t put the idiots running out onto the field on television and you won’t encourage other idiots to act like idiots so they could be seen on TV. Now when some idiot runs out on the field, they don’t get any screen time.
Octomom strikes me as even more unseemly than those idiots running out on the field. But, unlike the idiots who run out on the field, she is potential ratings gold. It’s still distasteful though, and I hope fewer people watch her than the series finale of Mental!
I know it makes me a hypocrite because you can’t watch any reality television if you don’t like people acting like idiots so they can be on television at least a little.
I’m here to kvetch about Hell’s Kitchen. If it turns out the entire thing was scripted, that’s fine, in fact, I’ll feel better about it. There’s a contestant, Robert, who is back from last season. Robert is definitely an entertaining contestant and he’s hard not to like. He’s also morbidly obese. As last season was nearing its end, Robert wound up in the hospital with some kind of heart condition and had to leave the show.
They brought him back again this season, and he’s still entertaining, but every bit as morbidly obese.
So what did they do in tonight’s episode? They made him get on some wacky bicycle built for six. And then they made the six guys pedal to the store, which happened to be uphill. Blah, blah, blah, 911 is dialed, Robert is back in the hospital with his fate to be decided next week. I suppose I could sniff around on the Internet and find out what happens, but I hate spoilers.
I also hate the idea of taking a morbidly obese guy you know has a heart condition and subjecting him to strenuous exercise when he’s not in that kind of shape. Again, if it’s completely scripted, that’s fine. But if it wasn’t, if it’s just that they had all their i’s dotted and t’s crossed legally and they did it simply because they could…
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That’s what you get if you don’t listen on Hell’s Kitchen. 27-year-old New York sous chef Tek got the boot for being stubborn. She obviously had a problem on the grill, but kept on insisting that she had everything under control. When Hell’s Kitchen host Chef Gordon Ramsay started sending back steak after steak after steak for not being the right temperature, we pretty much know that it’s goodbye Tek.
On the last episode of Hell’s Kitchen, team leaders Robert and Suzanne sat down with Gordon Ramsay and LaTasha, the wife of newly returned US Marine (not Joseph, we hoped), to get an idea what she’d like to see served at his homecoming dinner.
Things were OK for the guys, who were very happy with Robert’s leadership skills, while some of the girls notably – surprise, surprise – Tennille thought Suzanne wasn’t being clear with what the family wants served.
Come tasting time, this proved to be true, as LaTasha loved the guys’ first and second entrees: a trio of macaroni and cheese, fried catfish and collard greens, and grilled lobster tail. As a result, the men got to ride in – gasp – fighter jets, while the girls had to acquaint themselves with Mrs. Gordon Ramsay, Tana, who turned out to be very controlling herself. Of course, everyone was still blaming Suzanne because she didn’t listen well to the client, namely baking the lobster instead of grilling it.
Right before the dinner service, the men were not exactly helpful to the girls, since they had all the recipes. As it turned out, steaks became a cause of headache for both teams. Just ask Jim and Tek. The only difference was, Jim had Kevin bailing him out, while Tek only had her stubborn self.
Tune in next week for a brand new episode of Hell’s Kitchen, including a challenge that involves food and 700 calories.
By now, a lot of people are familiar with Joseph “I’m nobody’s bitch” Tinnelly. The former US Marine was the stuff of online forums after he showed off his fiery temper on the season premiere of Hell’s Kitchen last week.
As the New York sous chef is the first to show chef Gordon Ramsay this kind of attitude, some float the idea that maybe Joseph is just a ploy to pump up ratings for Hell’s Kitchen. Ploy or not, it worked, with some critics already predicting that this just might prove to be the Fox reality show’s most watched season to date.
A quick lookup for his identity will reveal that Joseph Tinnelly is at the very least a real person. The son of Mary and Edward Tinnelly, he graduated from the US Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina. He graduated from Massapequa High School in 1999 and was set to specialize in culinary arts. So while it does not prove that Joseph wasn’t planted on Hell’s Kitchen to spur interest, his background is very much genuine.
Regardless of Joseph’s intentions, however, Los Angeles Times commented that the “most shocking” part of the whole Joseph debacle was the fact that a member of the US military would have such a harsh reaction to authority. He “so poorly represent the armed forces,” the article said.
On the next episode of Hell’s Kitchen, we get the thrilling continuation of the Joseph-going-off-on-Gordon-Ramsay incident at the end of the Fox cooking show’s two-hour premiere last week. On tonight’s edition of Hell’s Kitchen, the 14 remaining chefs (meaning an additional two will be eliminated at the onset of the episode) are woken up in the middle of the night and called to the restaurant for an impromptu challenge. What they find is Gordon Ramsay and a room full of hungry firefighters waiting.
The teams, then, must cook a pasta dinner complete with garlic bread for the local heroes, with the first team to feed their group of firefighters first wins. The reward for the challenge will include a day of relaxation, while the losers will have to deal with washing, polishing, and waxing the fire engines. Unfortunately, Fox is reporting that two contestants are rushed to the hospital for injuries.
Just the same, the chefs are still competing for the grand prize of head chef position at the Canadian restaurant of Araxi in Whistler, British Columbia.
The much-talked about ending of Hell’s Kitchen last week included former US Marine and sous chef Joseph from New York going off on Ramsay, tearing off his jacket, and getting into Ramsay’s face, with f bombs flying all over the place. Earlier, asking him to give the first nominee, Ramsay made a reference to his background by telling Joseph, “That’s a pretty sorry battalion you got there,” to which Joseph said, “I know it is.” Ignoring Ramsay’s question, he asked the men could speak for themselves and that “they know who they are.”
After giving the Tony and Andy’s names, Ramsay called him “slightly stupid.” Ramsay was clearly not satisfied with his answers, while Joseph started throwing the f bombs, not sparing the other contestants who tried to calm him down. Maybe he’s trying to show Ramsay that he’s already ready to be like him?
Hell’s Kitchen 3 winner Rock Harper writes on Reality Wanted that he thinks former US Marine Joseph will be the next to be eliminated following his shocking and, some say, unwarranted display of rage toward Hell’s Kitchen host Gordon Ramsay on the show’s Tuesday premiere. Yet other than his temper and apparent lack of knowledge on how the show goes, Chef Rock pins the blame on the New York native’s talent, or lack thereof.
Let’s see; he can’t cook, he’s a sexist, he hasn’t been to any of his anger management classes since the conviction, he can’t cook, he has tons of Marines pissed at him, he threatened Chef G and he can’t cook! As much as we would love to see a brawl, it ain’t gonna happen… He’s gone, very soon.”
Rock adds that perhaps advancing on Hell’s Kitchen is the least on Joseph’s agenda, after he took off his jacket and practically challenged Ramsay on a physical brawl. “The guy is obviously hoping for a lawsuit or some show of his own, and no one on the set will allow that.”
If anything, however, Chef Rock says this season’s two-hour kick off was the best Hell’s Kitchen
start ever, or at least “as good as could be without” him.
As for the other chefs, Rock thinks that Milwaukee sous chef Suzanne did the best job, despite undercooking the risotto. “No one ever cooks the most famous dish from the show and she did, that’s just smart… She made up for it with her beating everyone on the shrimp challenge and strong showings in the kitchen during service.”
En route to its July 21 premiere, Hell’s Kitchen looks like it’s going to be hotter than ever, when the Fox cooking show sizzles with 16 new contestants go under the knife, so to speak, of the infamous Chef Gordon Ramsay. The sixth season of Hell’s Kitchen will kick off with a two-hour premiere to introduce the 16 people feature in its sixth season. Of particular interest was a rain of shrimps shown in the sneak peek released by Fox.
This season’s winner of Hell’s Kitchen will win the position of head chef at Araxi Restaurant in Whistler, British Columbia, in the first time a Canadian-set restaurant is featured on the show. He or she will also have the added privilege of joining executive chef James Walt in welcoming the world during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
On the first episode, Ramsay will go by the tradition, asking the contestants to cook him their signature dishes. The men and women will be pitted against each other in separate teams, with the winning team (and gender) awarded a special prize.
