Season 3
Hell's Kitchen is a British reality competition cooking series created by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and produced by ITV Productions which features prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize.
The series premiered in the UK on ITV on 23 May, 2004. There are 45 hour-long episodes in three seasons to date. A fourth season has been confirmed by ITV.
Hell's Kitchen airs in South Africa on DStv's BBC Lifestyle channel.
Season 3 premiered on BBC Lifestyle on Wednesday 18 February 2009, at 18h30. There are 15 episodes in the third season.
Season 3 Repeats
Wednesdays: 23h20
Thursdays: 11h30, 15h30
Saturdays: 12h00
Sundays: 08h00
Season 3
TV's most exclusive restaurant is back in business. And Marco Pierre White is taking over the reigns to train 10 celebrities how to cook.
In Season 1 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 Season 2 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.”
The celebrity lambs being led to the slaughter this season are:
Abigail Clancy
Adele Silva
Anneka Rice
Barry McGuigan
Brian Dowling
Jim Davidson
Kelly LeBrock
Lee Ryan
Paul Young
Rosie Boycott
Throughout the season 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?