Next Level Chef (British TV series)
Next Level Chef | |
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Genre | |
Created by | Tom Day |
Presented by | Gordon Ramsay |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Executive producer |
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Camera setup | Multi-camera |
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Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 11 January 2 March 2023 | –
Next Level Chef (also known as Next Level Chef UK) is a British culinary reality competition television series that premiered in 2023 and is hosted by Gordon Ramsay.[1][2][3]
The series was cancelled after one season due to low ratings.[4]
Chefs[edit]
Contestant[5] | Age | Status | Hometown/Home Country | Result |
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Bethika "Tia" Khurana | 50 | Home cook | Birmingham | Eliminated January 11 |
Selwyn Channon | 63 | Ex-Professional chef | Lympsham | Eliminated January 18 |
Layla Powell | 41 | Professional chef | London | Eliminated January 25 |
Kelly Hunter | 45 | Ex-Professional chef | Great Dunmow | Eliminated February 1 |
Temi Abdullahi | 27 | Social media chef | London | Eliminated February 8 |
Gurpreet Bains | 25 | Professional chef | Gravesend | Eliminated February 15 |
Toby Caswell-Jones | 22 | Professional chef | Liverpool | First Eliminated February 23 |
Ian "Gold" Golding | 51 | Home cook | Kings Langley | Second Eliminated February 23 |
Tony Maloy | 40 | Professional chef | Theddingworth | |
Callum Deboys | 26 | Ex-Professional chef | Prestwick, Scotland | Runner-ups March 2 |
Ronan Lee | 25 | Home cook | London | |
Jade Greenhalgh | 34 | Social media chef | Ormskirk | Winner March 2 |
Elimination table[edit]
Place | Contestant | Episodes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
1 | Jade | RAM | WIN | SAFE | WIN† | RISK | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WINNER | |
2 | Callum | RAM | WIN† | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | RISK | WIN | RUNNER-UP | |
Ronan | ARR | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN† | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | RUNNER-UP | ||
4 | Gold | AIN | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | ELIM | ||
Tony | ARR | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | ELIM | |||
6 | Toby | RAM | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | ELIM | ||
7 | Gurpreet | AIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | RISK | ELIM | |||
8 | Temi | AIN | SAFE | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | ||||
9 | Kelly | AIN | RISK | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | |||||
10 | Layla | ARR | SAFE | WIN† | ELIM | ||||||
11 | Selwyn | RAM | WIN | ELIM | |||||||
12 | Tia | ARR | ELIM |
†The contestant cooked the best dish overall and won safety for their team or themselves.
Critical reception[edit]
The Guardian wrote "Next Level Chef is a breathless, bewildering gabble of a show. This is a cookery contest that is so obsessed with contrived competition that it almost completely forgets about food."[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Sarrubba, Stefania (March 2, 2023). "Gordon Ramsay's Next Level Chef crowns winner". Digital Spy.
- ^ a b Seale, Jack (January 11, 2023). "Next Level Chef review – Gordon Ramsay's cooking competition is bizarre, banal nonsense". The Guardian.
- ^ Brown, Shannon (March 3, 2023). "Next Level Chef fans go wild for 'beast' contestant who made PB&J from scratch". The Cornishman.
- ^ "Gordon Ramsay's Next level Chef axed after one series". Yahoo!. March 28, 2023.
- ^ Réiltín Doherty (January 11, 2023). "Next Level Chef contestants: Meet the cooks heading into Gordon Ramsay's kitchen". Entertainment Daily UK. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
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