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Hell's Kitchen: About the show
Hell's Kitchen: Marco Pierre WhitePlay

What's cooking?

Published: Friday, 24 August 2007, 12:59PM

TV's most exclusive restaurant is back in business. And Marco Pierre White is taking over the reigns to train ten celebrities how to cook.

In series one actress and singer Jennifer Ellison was crowned the winning chef after creating a signature dish of burger with chunky chips under the guidance of Gordon Ramsay.

In series two ten members of the public stepped up to the pass under the guidance of Gary Rhodes and Jean Christophe Novelli. Terry Miller, from Gary’s team, won the contest.

Now Marco is in charge and he has just two weeks to train a group of amateurs into professional chefs who can serve mouth watering dishes to a restaurant of discerning celebrity diners.

Marco's bid for perfection may have earned him three Michelin stars but how will he cope in the ultimate celebrity diner? Will the customers go hungry and who will feel the heat and be forced out of the kitchen should the trainee celebrity chefs fail to meet his exacting standards?

"I won't be thinking of the trainees as celebrities,” says Marco. “What I'll be looking for is talent. I want to see tears, I want to hear laughter, I want to see people fight and I want to see people learn.

“I might be the hardest person they'll have ever met but I've got a heart just as big. It's about picking people up off the floor and inspiring them to want to carry on ‘til the end.”

Throughout the series viewers will vote for the celebrities they want to keep in the heat of the kitchen. Who will survive to become Britain's newest celebrity chef?

Click on the picture above to watch the show promo, and tune in to the first show in the series on Monday, 3rd September at 9pm on ITV1.