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Most reality shows are somewhat scripted and manipulated imho, but this show takes the buiscuit, I never believe a word of it and wouldn’t be at all surprised if at least half the contestants each series are paid actors.

Also the amount of shouting, ugh, it’s annoying enough when it’s Ramsey at it but all the contestants seem to have adopted the shouting = good mantra this season. It does my head in.

Also has any one noticed at the end of every episode we are told we won’t believe what happens next in the most explosive episode of Hell’s Kitchen, ever!

Is always when it gets down to the final two chefs left in the competition and they have to transform their half of the dining room into an actual mock up of what their winning restaurant would look like.

I like to see people have a meltdown over restaurant dining chairs, heh.

It’s not only nice to see their design ideas, it also almost always creates a lot of drama and tension which is always great for a reality TV show — it’s that stuff that makes us tune in after all. I find it suspicious how something always seems to go wrong at the last minute though — like they can’t get permission to do this or that had been broken. Blatantly the producers set up things like that just to test the contestants to see how they cope and create a little more drama!

I wonder if they ever get their chairs and bar stools and the like from RestaurantFurniture.net — they sell all sorts of furniture for restaurants to suit all styles and tastes and design concepts.

I would love to go on Hell’s Kitchen and get to that stage just so I could do that challenge, I love designing. Shame I suck at cooking!

Watching the episode of Hell’s Kitchen from a few weeks ago last night (Yes, I have got rather behind with it, oops) where they visited Borgata, the place that they will have their restaurant should they be crowned the winner by Gordan Ramsey, really made me want to go looking for a cheap flight to book and Vegas Hotels to stay in! Yes, I am aware that Borgata is in Atlantic City and not Las Vegas, but it looks like a typical super huge, shopping filled, gambling filled, luxury filled hotel that I completely associate with Vegas in my head.

I have always wanted to visit a super hotel like that, I love hotels in general but those things are more like little cities in themselves. I have never made it to one though, we simply don’t have things like that here in the UK and I have never been lucky enough to visit the USA. It is on my wishlist of places to visit, along with many other places.

Just looking through some of the hotels now on BestOfVegas.com, why must I torture myself? I think the hotel I would most like to stay in would be Caesars Palace as it is just such a well known one, every one has heard of it or seen it in the movies etc and it just looks immense, they have every thing from a shopping mall and gym to a golf course and swimming pool. Bliss.

I would also love to go golfing while there as well as visit the shark reef aquarium — I have also been thinking it’d be cool to go bungee jumping or sky diving recently but don’t think I would dare, so the indoor skydiving at the Convention Center might just be the ideal solution!

I wanna go now *sulk*

I am watching The Biggest Loser and Hells Kitchen daily at the moment, and that’s all well and good….but all that talk about food and naughty treats makes me hungry. They are cooking a gorgeous dark chocolate gateaux on Hell’s Kitchen right this very second and it is making me want the piece of chocolate I have saved from Easter downstairs — but then I think of The Biggest Loser and feel I shouldn’t be snacking on chocolate just because I feel like it.

Oh I am torn, curse you contradictory messages on the telly, what is a girl to do?

…that you always see contestants on reality shows driving around in limousines, from New York to Dallas limo, they always either get driving to their locations in them or win trips in them as part of prizes.

Think about how many times you have seen the girls from Next Top Model riding around in one. Think about how often the guys from Hell’s Kitchen get taken off in one when they win the weekly challenge. Even the people who get fired on The Apprentice are driven away in one while they do their piece to camera each week.

There’s something about a limousine that gives this air of money and sophistication — why is that? It’s only a car and they are relatively cheap to rent these days, any one can save their pennies for a little while and book one to take them on their hen party or something.

Still, I would love to be driving around in one…just once…a pink one preferably but hey I wouldn’t be picky.

You can hire an executive limo service in the Fort Worth area through gcslimousine.com, they have been in the business for many years and are a well known and respected name.

I usually love this show, but 4 episodes in and I am finding it really hard to care this year.

I can’t even place my finger on why, but it seems like a totally different show. I cannot stand Marco, but I couldn’t stand him last year either but still enjoyed the show so I don’t think him being back helps but it is certainly not that missing element.

I don’t really care about any of the celebrities, I don’t know many of them and they don’t seem like a very likable or interesting lot. But often times I don’t know the celebrities on these shows, that’s part of the fun and we get to know them pretty fast.

There seems to be little about the actual cooking this year, I have no clue who is doing what in the kitchen — I have no idea who is good and bad even. But then, I don’t care too much about the cooking…I watch the show for the drama and fun, not the cooking skills.

I like Claudia Winkleman, but miss Angus terribly — above any chef who has ever been on the show, he has been the star of the show for me, his sarcastic and cynical presenting style and one liners are what made the show a stand out. I was gutted to learn he wouldn’t be back and doubly gutted to learn he wasn’t coming back because Marco didn’t like being ‘disrespected’ by him.

Ultimately I think that it is a combination of all of the above, with Angus being gone as the final nail in the coffin.

I am officially stopping watching.

That poor woman on Hell’s Kitchen — she seemed to make a huge mistake in Gordons eyes right from the start by telling him how much she charges to teach people to cook — he’s been riding her hard about it ever since, to the point of getting right up into her face and calling her a thief.

He needs to get over it.

Every single person there works in the food industry and gets paid for it in one way or another, why isn’t he shouting at them for ripping off their employers?

Every single person in the shows 5 season history has started off badly, made mistakes and taken at least a few days to get into the demands — this woman is no worse than half of the other people they have ever had on the show.

She’s not going to have a business after this is over. Poor thing.

I love Gordan Ramsey, but his USA shows are proving harder and harder for me to watch. Kitchen Nightmares I find especially awful — it’s like he doesn’t just go and potentially help a struggling restaurant out, he goes and he saves the world!

I remember the episode from last season where we were expected to believe he took it upon himself to save a relationship and arrange a surprised wedding for a couple.

Come on now.

I know it’s the production more than him, but it’s annoying.

I used to be able to put up with Hell’s Kitchen despite the nonsense, but two episodes into this season and, meh, I am not sure I will bother with the rest.

So many previews and recaps and promises that the next part we are about to see will be ‘The most dramatic ever’.

I am over it.