Petrozza named Christina as his nominee for elimination and received no votes. He also said he really enjoyed the ravioli, saying it was wonderful. On May 9, 2007, she committed suicide at her home in Texas by gunshot. The blue team eventually lost the dinner service, and Louross was named "Best of the Worst". After service, the blue team was declared losers, and each member was asked to nominate one person for elimination. Back in the dorms, after Ben and Bobby went to bed, Petrozza entered the bedroom and offered them some cookies. He and Ben are the first contestants from the state of North Carolina. During Family Night dinner service, Petrozza was on the fish station. During the Fine Dining Pizza Challenge, Petrozza has had enough of Matt's questions, so he told him to shut the fuck up and focus on his own things. Keith passed away at the age of 35 on August 15, 2012. After he did, Jean-Philippe asked Shayna and Jason to do their impressions themselves. During dinner service, Petrozza was on the appetizer station. They arrived at the runway where Ramsay waited for them, and jokingly told him that he was looking clean for once, before entering a private jet. Because of his mistake, Louross had to go faster on his order of salmon, needing one more minute, while Ramsay reminded him he was deserving to lose. He lost the challenge to Christina and was punished by cleaning the restaurant, including emptying the fryers, scrubbing the floors and cleaning the ovens. This was the men's team's second time in a row getting kicked out by Gordon, and their punishment was largely due to Genaro sending up raw New York strip steaks twice. When he asked her if she needed help, she declared he must not trust her to work on the line, leading him to say that she was being a bitch and doing the thing they were all knowing her for. After getting back in line, he declared that he thought his dish was memorable as Ramsay wanted. Soon, the chefs met up on the bus going to Hell's Kitchen. He was annoyed by her screwing up, but when she finally sent her prawns, he served them, and Ramsay congratulated him for being able to run the kitchen and not the other way around. When he sent his first appetizer, Ramsay noticed the bottom of his plate was very dirty, and asked him to show his hands. His time on the show got off to a less than auspicious start, what with his Cornish-game-hen-stuffed-in-a-pumpkin confusing Gordon Ramsay more than impressing him. Jessica Vogel, a former contestant on the Fox cooking competition series "Hell's Kitchen" has died at age 34. During dinner service, Petrozza was on the meat station. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Here are the chefs who have died since appearing on the cooking series that first premiered in 2005: Rachel Brown (Season 2): This hard-working personal chef ranked seventh and offered herself up for elimination many times. After that, he congratulated his two female teammates by giving high-fives, and he was impressed by the fact there was only three chefs left. Then, he stated he could have done a better job than her with only one arm. He said that Jen wanted to be the captain of the team, but drove the team towards an iceberg. Michael initially thought he had won $250,000 prize money to open up his own restaurant. Then, Ramsay introduced the annual Blind Taste Test. He passed away on November 15, 2019, due to problems with lung cancer. Jeff LaPoff lacked any experience working in any other kitchen beside his own. Jessica lost the challenge for undercooking the lobster in the risotto and overcooking the halibut, and became the first competitor to be eliminated from the "Cook For Your Life" challenge. Keith Greene (1977 - August 15, 2012) was a contestant on . During prep, he noticed Jen could be a bitch, but acknowledged that Louross could be more vocal. Ramsay started to lose his patience and asked him to go back to the dorms and start again. When he asked Ramsay to call back the next ticket, Ramsay called him an idiot while saying it was for the next table. The next morning, he acknowledged it was time for him to design his menu, so he went on the patio to do it, but was still having a tough time. He then met someone he loved in Belgium, so he decided to return to his home permanently. Bobby felt the need to help him because of his genuine heart. He chose the filet of buffalo as his cut of meat, but changed his mind and went with the venison striploin. His quality control paid off as his customers were satisfied with their appetizers. He declared to Ramsay that his favorite part was the flowers, and Ramsay finished by saying he loved the fireplace as well. Louross tried to motivate him, and near the end, Louross and him communicated well on the Wellingtons and salmon. ". When Ramsay lifted the pumpkin to look at the potatoes, the former asked him how much oil and fat he used for frying them. With a prize of $250,000 on the line as well as a position as an executive chef at one of Ramsay's restaurants, a lot is riding on a contestant's shoulders. When Ramsay announced there were 30 minutes to go, he acknowledged it was not a lot of time. After he left the kitchen, Ramsay was appalled at how difficult it was for someone not to know the menu by now. During dinner service, Petrozza called his first ticket out with his team calling back immediately. The next morning, the contestants were driven to Farmers Market, where Ramsay introduced the Sweet 16 Planning Challenge. When they were done, everybody was congratulating each other, even the two finalists. But while the show has done much to popularize the art of cooking, it has also had some tragedy associated with it. He was the third person to have his dish judged by Ramsay. Back in Hell's Kitchen, Ramsay introduced the Main Protein Challenge, where each chef would create one dish based on a given protein. However, he could not due to not studying. He found women's hair in the bathroom, saying it was disgusting. Christina became confused, thinking she sent them. Things didn't improve much after that as, in Episode 2, he was faced with the possibility of elimination for his inability to remember the appetizers to be served that night, undercooking a steak, and getting several orders mixed up. Her performance took a dive after her friend Heather West, the winner of the season, left the red team. He declared he had work all his life to get there. Rachel Virginia Lianne Brown died on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 in Dallas from a gunshot wound, with her death being ruled a suicide by a representative of the Tarrant County medical examiner's office. Vogel, who attended culinary school at Johnson & Wales in. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! The next morning, Ramsay made both teams taste some dishes which they did not know were fake. After some deliberation, he declared he knew he did, and both finalists were relieved. Teams must shell and cook a lobster after watching Gordon demonstrate it to perfection. Back in the dorms, Petrozza congratulated Matt for the great compliment he received from Ramsay, and during deliberation, Ben tried to convince him to nominate Louross. However, the rest of his time on the show was marked by numerous mistakes, including serving raw bass, burning scallops, cooking too many risottos too early, and more. Hell's Kitchen features Gordon Ramsay as Head Chef alongside two sous chefs to support the contestants. When the team presented their menu to Ramsay, he allowed them to change some of the items to make it more attractive, which they did. On the first ticket, he had some communication problems with Craig as the latter did not say anything. Calling from the P.A., Ramsay told them to get up, grab a chicken, and come down to the dining room. However, Rachel returned for the final service when Heather got to draft a team of previously eliminated competitors. On the patio, Petrozza revealed he was happy Matt was gone, and declared that it was anybody's game from that moment. When he was given his jacket, he could see himself working under Ramsay. First Episode Date: May 30, 2005. During prep, when Christina entered the kitchen, her teammates were really unresponsive when she asked what she could do, but eventually, he helped her, even though acknowledging it sucked that she won, it was still teamwork first. She knew everyone expected her to nominate Corey out of revenge and realized that people who were not committed to the team did not deserve a chance. He ranked in 10th place. During the punishment, he noticed how Ramsay was not joking when he said the dorms needed to be cleaned. Ramsay tasked him and Christina to create their dream restaurant and their own menus. The blue team lost the challenge to Jen's pizza, and were punished by prepping all the pizzas for that night's dinner service, in both kitchens. He was the first person who Ramsay announced made it to the finals, and moments later, he was joined by Christina, making both of them the finalists of Hell's Kitchen. When Ramsay lifted the dome up, he was confused by the pumpkin he saw on the plate. Petrozza wondered what was going on, and arrived at the secret destination, all the chefs were lined up in front of Ramsay, who asked them to take their blindfolds off. They were rewarded with a day on a 100-foot superyacht and were transported in Rolls-Royce and Bentleys. Marcel Vigneron - Season 3 winner. However, he lost the challenge to Jen, and was punished by taking part of Delivery Day. Ramsay noticed his strudel was overcooked, the risotto of his filet mignon was too stiff, but he praised the souffl, saying he was very brave to do that. During deliberation, he declared it sucked they have to send someone home, but he reminded half of them would go up. After she left, he thought Corey and Jen, were boiling, while acknowledging the game was becoming vicious. At one point, Ramsay caught him putting lettuce in his appetizers without washing it and schooled him on that mistake, telling him to keep his station clean. Georgia native Nona Johnson's win on Season 8 of "Hell's Kitchen" earned her the head chef position at LA Market in Los Angeles, California. Unfortunately, he passed away on August 7, 2020. Because he won the challenge, his first selection was Bobby, declaring he was a rock star and that he could not pass that service without him. For more than 20 seasons and 300 episodes, "Hell's Kitchen" has proven to be a wildly-popular reality TV show focusing on a group of aspiring chefs who compete for a huge cash prize and position as head chef at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants. He was furious at himself, asking why did he left the pure aside. But, before his decision was announced, the episode ended in a cliffhanger.[14]. 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Both were former contestants on a reality show notorious for dishing out tough love to aspiring chefs. Petrozza was not nominated for elimination and gleefully said goodbye to Matt, who has just been transferred to the red team.[6]. The next morning, the remaining chefs got outside, and drove into the Hell's Kitchen SUVs with blindfolds on, not knowing where they were going. He brought the second entre for the blue team, which was a "Sassy Surf 'n' Turf". Soon, the chefs met up on the bus going to Hell's Kitchen. This all came to a head in Episode 9 when, after Paulie sent up a raw lamb during service, Gordon flew into a rage and sent out him and his team, marking their series-record sixth time ejected from the kitchen. But, he took a risk by slicing the burnt sides of the beef, not convincing Louross he would get away with that. During the judging, when he saw that the birthday girl and her mother would be the judges, Petrozza started to be worried as it was not a professional's opinion anymore.