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Ding, Ding, and now over to our announcer – in the red corner (no mention of their weight) from the fighting city of ………

The Plonker Club counter says that it is less than 3 days until Gordon Ramsay’s puts the latest group of wannabe head chefs through Hell in order to futher their careers, but mostly for our entertainment.

As has now become traditional, Hell’s Kitchen will start with two teams, separated on the basis of gender, beginning with the first half of the ladies that make up the red team!

Andrea

Andrea - Gordon Ramsays Hells Kitchen Season 5

Hometown: Reading, PA
Age: 30
Occupation: Line Cook
Experience:
Line Cook, Beverly Hills Tavern
Owner/Operator, White Linen Catering
Private Chef, Sugar Foods Inc.
Line Cook, The Chef’s Toque Catering

Kitchen Experience:
6 years

Culinary School:
Bachelor’s in Culinary Arts Management from The Culinary Institute of America

Notes:
Andrea is underestimated in the kitchen due to her petite size and because she is a woman, but that is exactly how she likes it. Andrea says that when they hired her at the Beverly Hills Tavern that they got a two for one deal since she is not only the Line Cook but does many of the duties of a Sous Chef.

Carol

Carol - Gordon Ramsays Hells Kitchen Season 5

Hometown: Knoxville, TN
Age: 30
Occupation: Sous Chef
Experience:
Chef, Peerless Restaurant
Sous Chef, Northshore Brasserie
Executive Sous Chef, The Orangery
Chef and Kitchen Manager, Edison Park Steakhouse
Cook, Mesa Grill in Caesar’s Palace

Kitchen Experience: Â
4 years

Culinary School:
Le Cordon Bleu of Las Vegas

Notes:
Carol’s petite size doesn’t reflect her huge passion for the craft of cooking. This married mother of two works in the only fine dining establishment in Knoxville, Tennessee but, plans on moving when she wins Hell’s Kitchen

Coi

Coi - Gordon Ramsays Hells Kitchen Season 5

Hometown: Austin, TX
Age: 22
Occupation: Café Cook Experience:
Pantry Chef (Tournant), Satellite Bistro & Bar
Garde Manger Manager, Dow Chemical
Garde Manger, Omni Hotel

Kitchen Experience:
8 years

Culinary School:
Art Institute of Houston

Notes:
Coi appears to be sugar and spice and everything nice, but watch out, because there appears to be a storm brewing in this fiery Texan! This self-proclaimed diva in the kitchen wants to show America that a girly-girl can win Hell’s Kitchen. Although she started cooking at a very young age, it was not until a high school culinary arts course that she realized she had a knack for being in the kitchen. Coi hopes her years of experience pay off in Hell’s Kitchen.

Colleen

Colleen - Gordon Ramsays Hells Kitchen Season 5

Hometown: Papillion, NE
Age: 41
Occupation: Cooking School Instructor Experience:
Chef/Owner/Instructor, The Classy Gourmet
Cooking demo for Cox

Kitchen Experience:
14 years

Culinary School:
Self-taught

Notes:
This happy-go-lucky, “A” personality type chef maintains that she did not choose cooking as a profession, but that it chose her. Colleen currently owns and runs her own cooking school. This self-employed mother of 3 has gotten by with not only her bubbly personality, but her strong cooking skills. Always a perfectionist, she calls people that do not know anything about food “food idiots.” Colleen is a team player, and a doer, and wants to continue her culinary journey in Hell’s Kitchen

Round two of introductions for the red team coming shortly (after these words from our sponsors)

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

I came across the link via the Guardian newspaper in the UK and quickly perused the list to see if anything from the Gordon Ramsay Holding’s empire han scored.

The only one I recognised by name was Murano, a Gordon Ramsay Restaurant run by his protege (sorry, came work out how to put the funny things over the both e’s) Angela Harnett.

I’m not sure if this elevates Gordon Ramsay in the ‘who has the most Michelin stars’ stakes, but another one can’t hurt!

David Driscoll
Chief Plonker at The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com

At the recent Golden Globe held at Gordon Ramsay at The London in West Hollywood, several sources are reporting that Gordon Ramsay will no longer pose for photos as a direct result of Sarah Symonds’ allegation of affairs that were levelled last year.

Maybe this just applies to one on one photos with women, and one reporter said that Gordon Ramsay pulled him into a photo with a fan – having the reporter standing between them.

The Daily Mail reporter states that Gordon Ramsay said to him “I’m not getting burnt again!”. He later clarified his position by stating that “As long as there’s a gap, they can’t take the photograph and say: “Oh look! Here I am with Gordon Ramsay. We had a fling!”

Gordon Ramsay was also reported to have to have once again denied the allegations of an affair. The Daily Mail again quotes Gordon Ramsay as saying “‘It never happened! It was completely made up,’ Ramsay insisted to me.
‘She set it up to make some money. I heard how she told her friends to “watch out” for a big story concerning her and the big story was her claims that we had an affair.
Not true! Not true for a minute!’ he told me as he greeted guests arriving for supper at the London.”

These comments are slightly more candid than the public (and extremely funny) rebuttals Gordon Ramsay produced at several cooking shows in the days after the story first broke last year.

That story can be viewed in the Plonker Club Archives, specifically in the blog section with the story ” The Story According to Gordon (Ramsay) – Well, sort of ….”

David Driscoll
Chief Plonker at The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com

That’s right, Gordon Ramsay will be heading down under to help Sanctuary Cove in Queensland celebrate its 21st birthday.

More to come as this exciting story unfolds

David Driscoll
Chief Plonker at The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com

At the time of typing this, there is only 17 days 17 hours 36 minutes 22 seconds
left until Hell’s Kitchen Season Five Begins, according to the counter on the Plonker Club Website – the home of the Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite!

And if you are wondering who will be keeping us entertained (at their own expense) you can now check them out.

Their photos now appear on the chopping block on the Official Fox Homepage http://www.fox.com/hellskitchen/ – along with Gordon Ramsay, and the other sous chefs!

There is also an official Facebook page for Hell’s Kitchen – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hells-Kitchen/13427984738

Only seventeen more sleeps (maybe sixteen – I might not be able to sleep the night before!)

David Driscoll
Chief Plonker at The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com