Hell's Kitchen Fries Little Guy in Surprise Elimination

Gordon Ramsey was hot and bothered again on Hell's Kitchen. (Photo courtesy of Fox)

Fish eggs and fishy politics were in the spotlight on Monday's episode of Hell's Kitchen, the Fox TV program famous for skewering aspiring executive chefs.

The fish eggs came from Dover sole, the delicacy being served this week in Gordon Ramsey's kitchen by the verdant participants. The fishy politics came at the end of the show, when the laziest reality TV contestant in the history of the genre not only wasn't eliminated, he wasn't even one of the two cooks on the chopping block.

Aaron, a 48-year-old retirement home chef prone to more breakdowns than an '89 Lada with a flooded engine, survived to self-flagellate one more week. His behavior was so weirdly pathetic that Ramsey asked him at one point if he was play acting. Ramsey spared him from the pressure of the kitchen and had him debone the precious sole tableside. Not surprisingly, Aaron failed at that task.

But he wasn't nominated for elimination by Rock, who was the best of the worst, according to Ramsey, and tasked with choosing two of his teammates to face elimination. He opted for Eddie, a small-fry grill cook mocked cruelly by Ramsey, and Josh, a sous chef who messed up the main course but seems more competent than others on Rock's team. The obvious question, then, is: Was Rock trying to axe his competition? Ah, how the drama builds, and it's only the second episode of the show's third season.

Tiny Eddie departed and Josh is sticking around - and watching his back, he said.

The ladies, or Red team, stole the show, both with their cooking and their parading around in underwear in front of the men, an act that was never explained, but somewhere in middle America the lonely men in La-Z-Boys were delighted with the treat.

In case you missed it last week, the reality TV odds for who wins Hell's Kitchen were taken down by the Bodog Sportsbook after some, ah, fishy wagering patterns. Apparently, the results of the taped show are out. The Beat broke the story of Who Won Hell's Kitchen, but don't read it if you want to keep from knowing the outcome.