5 Irritating HK Runner-ups

Author: Old Mother Hubbard

The 5 most irritating Hell’s Kitchen runner-ups that had their hearts broken in the finale and I was glad:

1. Johnathan Benvenuti – Season 22 – Right from the first episode of season 22 Johnathan Benvenuti irked me. There was something off putting about him. He was short and skinny with a weird looking beard and an odd personality. Chef Ramsay seemed to really like him because I guess he could cook really well. It seemed that Ramsay kind of had his mind made up early on that Johnathan was going to win the grand prize. That is, until Jonathan royally fucked up. Johnathan was the first to get a black jacket. He started drinking early in the day and by the end of the day he was fucking hammered. He came in to the challenge the next day with a hangover looking pale and pasty. Ramsay ask how he was feeling and said “You look like a sack of shit on a hot day.” Johnathan got all twisted by the comment, which was said in jest, and wouldn’t let it go for 2 or 3 days. Finally he confronted Ramsay about the comment and Ramsay was annoyed by it for sure. Johnathan, the dork, should have sucked it up and moved on but instead he blew a $250,000 grand prize over a hissy fit, and I loved it.

2. Torrece “T” Gregoire – Season 14 – I couldn’t stand “T” when she was on season 14 and even more so when she was on season 18. She was and is super arrogant, violent at times, likes to bully people because of her size (she’s 6 foot 3 and about 400 pounds of blubber) and is not afraid to use the race card when things don’t go her way. There was no way that “T” was going to win going against Meghan Gill (no relation to Megan Gill – season 20 runner-up – weird huh?). “T” was super heartbroken when she came in 2nd and she even tried to claim discrimination played a part in her loss but everyone knew that Gill would be the winner before the finale even started.

3. Heather Williams – Season 16 – All the love affairs on HK have been pretty gross but the grossest by far was the love affair between homely Heather Williams and fat Andrew Pearce. Andrew had a fiancée while he was having his gross relationship with ugly Heather. Andrew did not marry his fiancée after the show aired and his relationship with Heather fizzled out after she caught him cheating on her (like we didn’t suspect he was capable of that). Heather was also on Season 18. When she was fucking up all day but managed to squeak out the win for the last black jacket, all the other black jacket recipients were bummed out, most notably Bret Hauser. Heather seemed sure she was going to win the grand prize but everyone knew Kimberly-Ann Ryan had it in the bag.

4. Russell Kook – Season 8 – Russell was no doubt one of the biggest assholes ever to appear on HK. He was arrogant as fuck and he bullied almost all his fellow contestants. When the big day for the finale came it seemed that Russell was most likely going to win, considering he was going up against that fat goofball Nona Sivley. At the last minute, Ramsay either had a change of heart or someone convinced him that it wouldn’t be wise to have an asshole like Russell win. Russell was super bitter after the loss to Nona and he felt like he was robbed. He might even have a point that he was robbed but boy was it satisfying watching him lose.

5. Mary Lou Davis – Season 19 – Mary Lou coming in 2nd seemed like a joke. Mary Lou was an idiotic goofball and another one that had a gross out love affair on HK with fem boy Cody Candelario. I’m not sure of the rationale Ramsay uses when choosing his contestants for the finale. Maybe Declan Horgan pissed Ramsay off of something but to choose Mary Lou over Declan just seemed wrong. If Ramsay granted Mary Lou the grand prize he would have looked like a fool. He gave to Kori Sutton instead. Meh – I guess.