Day 16 The Final The Winner Will Be Announced On The Show Live.

Aperitif

ADELE AND BARRY – THE FINAL COUNTDOWNSunday morning. Finalists Adele and Barry entered the kitchen in the morning to prepare for the toughest service yet before one of them is crowned winner of Hell’s Kitchen.Adele was now head chef of the red kitchen, and Barry head of the blue kitchen. Marco gave them his final seal of approval and presented them both with a bandana of their very own.Barry said: “To get the Marco bandana is definitely an honour, however with my ugly head it didn’t fit very well. I look like a kung fu fighter!” Marco then explained there were five of the sacked celebrities returning to the kitchen to assist them both, and that night each team would be cooking three starters, four mains and three puddings from the menus of the series. Ever the gentleman, Barry let Adele choose her dishes first. She joined Marco in his office and began to select her menu. Adele said: “Is it what I don’t have Barry has to have? Maybe I should ask him then?” But Marco egged her on and said: “It’s too late for that, now be selfish!”

When Adele chose the mushroom consommé over the mussel soup Marco said: “It’s easier, you’ve really stitched Barry now!”

Adele replied: “Not intentionally! It’s with your guidance!”

As Barry entered Marco’s office to make his choices Marco said: “You’re on a stretcher Barry before you even begin!”

Later Barry said: “Like any gent I let the lady go first to pick the menu…I think I’m off to a bad start.”

Starter

THE CELEBRITY CHEFS RETURN

Once the menus were picked, Marco introduced the five returning celebrities that were going to assist Adele and Barry – Rosie, Kelly, Brian, Paul and Abbey.

Marco chose Rosie, the first celeb to be sacked, to be the pastry chef and work between the two kitchens. Fellow accomplished pastry chefs Brian and Abbey were aghast at his decision and shot each other a look of disbelief that neither of them had been chosen.

Then Adele and Barry picked their teams: Barry chose Abbey and Paul and Adele chose Kelly and Brian.

Delighted to be reunited with his team mate, Brian later said: “Clearly the red team has the advantage. She’s [Adele] got the bronze medalist – me, and Adele herself is going to be gold or silver medalist, and Kelly is just great.

“She’s like the Beyoncé and I’m the Kelly Rowland just behind!”

Marco had one final surprise for the teams – he was leaving the kitchen until late afternoon so they had to prepare everything themselves.

Main Courses

THE HEAT IS ON

Service arrived and both teams were firing on all cylinders – eager to win and out do their rivals. Adele and Barry prepare to do battle. Adele said: “We’re going back to red team and blue team and it’s a full scale war!”

But Barry feared he needed some extra help to beat the red team. Rosie was meant to be assisting both teams with pastries, but Barry was determined to make her a blue.

He slyly cornered her and said: “Rosie, stay over our side as much as possible as we may need some help,” to which Rosie responded: “I’m on your side.”

With a screen erected between the two kitchens so they couldn’t see each other, Adele turned spy and sneaked a peak at the enemy.

She said: “I want my kitchen red hot, absolutely scorching…It’s me versus Barry and I’m hoping for a knockout!”

GILLIAN McKEITH AND THE SATURATED FATS

Healthy eating guru Gillian McKeith was the latest celebrity diner to face the wrath of Marco as she and her dining companion made a special request for healthy food to Nick. But as a purveyor of fine French cuisine, Marco is not known for his healthy options.

Gillian ordered the white asparagus starter, and her friend ordered the mushroom consommé, but he then asked if he could have the turbot for his main course grilled instead of deep fried.

“Could it be grilled because he’s watching his weight?” asked Gillian.

Nick returned to the pass with their requests.

“He’s asking about the temperature of the oil and how much saturated fat will be in the batter,” Nick told Marco.

Without batting an eyelid Marco said: “Send him home.”

Nick returned to their table and broke the news that Marco would not indulge their request.

Gillian said: “It seems like you have to eat basically what Marco wants you to eat otherwise you’re out the door. That’s the bottom line.”

Gillian’s guest relented and agreed to have the turbot as on the menu.

Meanwhile Marco muttered away to himself in the kitchen: “I haven’t got a clue about saturated fat, what a prat.”

Desserts

NICK TAKES ANOTHER TUMBLE

As service was in full swing, with the blue and red kitchen vying to be the best, Maitre d’ Nicholas threw a spanner in the works when he tripped and dropped two of Barry’s shepherd’s pies.

The steaming pies narrowly missed covering model Caprice and her guest as Nick fell to their feet. Marco’s good friend and previous Hell’s Kitchen chef Jean-Christophe Novelli was on hand to help pick up the pieces.

“Oh s**t,” Nick muttered as the pies and peas splattered across the carpet.

As the kitchen saw the incident Abbey shrieked: “Oh you’re kidding me! He fell over with the shepherd’s pies!”

Nick said to the watching diners: “It brings some excitement to the evening!” He returned to the pass to collect two more shepherd’s pies and said to Barry: “The carpet really enjoyed them!”

THE RED TEAM ARE BEATEN

At the end of a very busy service the diners’ verdicts were in. Celebrity diner Kyran Bracken was thoroughly impressed: “The food tonight was like a top, top London restaurant.”

Former Hell’s Kitchen chef Jean Christophe Novelli said: “I salute my hat to Barry and say well done.”

As the teams gathered to hear the results from Nick, Barry praised his chefs for the night.

“It was superb to get my team back,” said Barry. “They were a great support I couldn’t have done it without them.”

Marco then said: “I’m going to miss you all when you go – I tried to get myself voted off yesterday but they wouldn’t let me!”

Barry added: “You’re the king of all chefs!”

The jubilant celebrities then raised a glass to their boss. Later a tearful Adele said in the confessional: “I will never forget the memories I’ve had from here.”

But the final diners’ verdict disappointed her. The red team got seven and a half out of ten and Barry’s blue team was awarded eight out of ten.

Adele said: “I was gutted tonight because we got seven and a half and Barry beat us - the best man won obviously - he got eight out of 10. I felt we kept our cool on the red side and had a better service, so I thought we’d won the diner’s verdict…Hand on heart I was gutted we didn’t win tonight.”

Last Orders

THE ULTIMATE TASTE TEST

Monday morning. As they counted down the hours of their final day, Barry and Adele faced several challenges, including a taste test and cooking lunch for TV presenter Piers Morgan and restaurant critic Giles Coren.

Marco told the remaining two contestants as they arrived in the kitchen: “Congratulations well done you’ve both come through with your reputations intact which I think is important.”

He then told them they would be doing a taste test during which they would be blindfolded and joked they would be tasting “a bit of brain, bit of spinal cord…antelopes’ eyebrows. I can feed you anything!”

He added: “I have this theory I think women have better palates than men.”

He then put his theory to the test. He gave them a selection of herbs and they had to guess which each one was.

Adele guessed more herbs correctly than Barry and Marco told her: “Adele’s better at herbs than Barry. So you have proved my theory Adele. Girls have got a more acute sense of smell.”

The taste testing then got even harder as the pair moved on to trying a selection of different meats and seafood ranging from oxtail, which Adele said “tastes like dog food”, to Carpaccio, ox tongue and scallops.

They both performed well but failed to identify the Carpaccio which Adele thought was smoked salmon.

Marco told them: ”I bet you two weeks ago you would have been nowhere near as good at that task. Being in the kitchens, surrounding yourself with all these fresh products has really helped.”

The pair’s attentions then turned to cook lunch and they decided to work together rather than in competition to serve mussel soup, steak with pomme puree and strawberry shortcake.

As they prepared the dishes Adele said: “I can’t believe I’m cooking for a food critic and Piers Morgan – how good is that?”