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Hells Kitchen USA

From:     gordon
Category: TV
Date:     01 November 2007
Time:     09:04 AM

Review:

Amercian reality tv is always more contrived and editorialised than UK reality. Add in enormous 
amounts of product placement and glamorous hosts and contestants,barbie and ken and a few 
handsome geeks and youve got the picture.  A bit like the food too, though I think on balance UK 
apprentice etc is tastier. Hells Kitchen US is mainly Ramsay swearing and going on, which may be 
entertaining to the yanks. The peculiar thing about it is that the contestants are less muscular and 
attractive than the usual clothes store dummies paraded on these shows especially in America. They, 
gasp, seem mostly quite working class and ordinary looking, which surprise surprise actually makes 
the show more affecting, in that the prize seems to matter.


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