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marigold:
Video:

April Fool's Day on FOX!

Catch more FOX April Fool's pranks all day including Gordon Ramsay


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNL6rCX65Zo

marigold:
 :hearts: hehehe

April Fools on Hells Kitchen! Gordon Ramsay PRANKED!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZIXEXqSdtw

marigold:
An interview with Lacey:

'Hell’s contestant dishes up gossip on behind-the-scenes prep and Ben’s facial expressions

TVGuide.ca: Hey Lacey, we were sorry to see you go, I thought you had a bit of a bum rap on the show.
Lacey D’Angelo: Why thank you!

TVG: Who did you find harder to work with, the blue team or the red team?
LD: When you put eight women in the room together, of course there’s going to be cattiness and fighting, so I think the red team was a little harder. The blue team wouldn’t really say anything to your face. I didn’t know Robert had an issue with my weight. My first impression was just really bad and it kind of all went downhill from there. The blue team, with the exception of Ben, just had all these preconceived notions of me before I even got over there.

TVG: Gordon Ramsay has talked before about a woman’s reputation in the kitchen and how it’s hard for a female to be taken seriously in the industry. Do you think the women’s behaviour on the show has a negative affect on that notion?
LD: Women are stepping up and really getting a voice and playing the guy’s game. But as women we tend to let our emotions overrun ourselves, like last week when Carol and Andrea had their little fight and somebody said, “I’m going to punch you in the throat,” or something like that. That’s the kind of stuff that makes it difficult. But there are a lot of great female chefs out there, and it might be a little harder for women, but it’s definitely changing.

TVG: Was it hard to watch the episodes back, hearing how some of the other contestants were talking about you?
LD: I kind of expected the comments. The weight issue was funny because it’s the pot calling the kettle black. I didn’t get along with everybody and I expected the comments would be bad. I think one person posted on a blog that I’m going to be so depressed because my self-esteem will be shot. Well, it’s a reality show. If I cared what people thought about me I wouldn’t have gone on a reality show.

There were a couple of times where I cringed a little … one week they showed me adjusting my pants, if you will. And then in the beginning they showed eating a hot dog. That’s kind of messed up, but it doesn’t bother me.

TVG: How did you stay motivated? We saw you thisclose to leaving a few times, but you always came back.
LD: People say things when they get angry. For me it, “Argh, I quit.” You get so frustrated, but you go off, cool off and come back. If I had of actually intended on quitting I would have quit. A lot of people were calling me a quitter. Honestly, I didn’t expect to be there as long as I was. But this was an experience of a lifetime, so I would get back in there and just do it. Make the most of it.

Plus I knew that every week I stayed in made everybody mad [Laughs.]

TVG: There’s obviously a learning curve to the show, especially when you’re all of a sudden working with the likes of Gordon Ramsay, but what was the most difficult thing for you to grasp in the kitchen?
LD: It was that meat station. Everyone has a different station every night, and when you’re in the kitchen, you’re really trying to focus on what you’re doing and you don’t really get to see how everything else works. I’d be on fish and someone was doing a Wellington, and doing it well, you kind of try to see so that when it’s your turn, you have a good idea. But in that situation [Gordon’s] there yelling, it’s really hot, the cameras are on you … it’s really hard to grasp anything else besides what you’re doing. For someone who hasn’t worked on a line before, that was the hardest part.

TVG: How do you prep? I know you have the recipes to study, but are there any tutorials or is there help available? Or are you literally thrown onto the line?
LD: It’s pretty much “Go.” We had the sous chefs in there, but they were really there to kind of watch us. What you saw on TV was us trying to figure it out. That’s why I kept asking, “Guys, what can I do? What’s this, what’s that?” Because you’re supposed to be a team, but for me I came off so negatively no one wanted to help. I was a little doomed from the start.

TVG: Is there anybody you still keep in touch with?
LD: I haven’t talked to anybody since the show filmed. I don’t know if they want to talk to me, actually. When the show’s over I’ll probably try to contact a couple of people. We’ll see if they call back!

TVG: I love that you saw right through Ben in your one-on-ones. Were his facial expressions as scary in real life as they were on the show?
LD: [Laughs.] Ben is a character. The eyebrow thing and all that? Yeah. Everybody was pretty much represented the way they acted. Robert was really funny. The times we were all laughing and joking, those were really funny times.

Ben is cocky. Ben does the facial things. It was cool to see they didn’t make it so-far-fetched. It was one of those things when you can tell when someone’s babying you. I didn’t feel it was sincere. I appreciate the help he gave me, and it did help, but you can tell. It’s a competition, why would someone really want to help someone else essentially beat them? I just took it for what it’s worth.

TVG: Are you rooting for anyone to win?
LD: I think anyone has a shot. If Carol and Andrea stopped fighting with each other they’d do really well. Usually I can call it, but this year it’s tough, everybody wants it so bad and they’re all pretty good.

http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/Lazy+Lacey/RealityTV/Exit+Interviews/Articles/090402_Hells_Kitchen_Lacey_AD.htm?isfa=1

marigold:
An interview with LA:

LA on Chef Ramsay, her surprise at being eliminated and her hopes for the future

TVGuide.ca: I was quite surprised by your elimination during the show. Were you surprised as well?
LA: Yeah, I was actually shocked. I thought it would be Andrea or Carol. I was stunned. I mean, every station I worked I was great at and he didn’t really yell at me a lot so I thought I was pretty safe. But, you know, it’s TV.

TVG: Maybe they liked the drama of Andrea and Carol.
LA: Yeah, definitely.

TVG: Were you aware at the time that Lacey had been kicked out of dinner service?
LA: It started floating around. I didn’t believe it at first, but when you saw her missing in the kitchen you were like, “Wow.” I thought I was safe for another week, but apparently not.

TVG: Can you see each other when you’re cooking? You look like you’re side by side.
LA: Yeah, there’s a big wall actually between you, but you can kind of peek over and see what’s going on over there.

TVG: Did you form any allies on your team?
LA: I looked at it as it was a competition, not as far as, like Survivor-wise. I made friends and stuff, but no one I’d call and alliance.

TVG: So no one you’d keep in touch with, in other words?
LA: Oh, I still talk with a lot of them. But like I said, it wasn’t an alliance. I made friends and met a lot of cool people out of it.

TVG: What are your thoughts on the red team’s lack of teamwork?
LA: It just wasn’t there. With communication, we’d start to get ahead and hit a bump on the road like with the Andrea and Carol thing and it just took over the team.

TVG: Would you have preferred to have been on the blue team? When they sent Lacey over there, would you have preferred that you had been there?
LA: Yeah, I would’ve preferred the blue because they were more about cooking. They didn’t worry about the whole drama factor. They just wanted to get it out, get it done and make sure they weren’t the ones on the chopping block.

TVG: What is Gordon Ramsay like to work for? You see him swearing and screaming on the show, but for the most part is he only like that during dinner service?
LA: Yeah, like when you win a challenge and you get that one-on-one time with him, where you got to hang out with him outside of the kitchen, he was a great guy. He was funny and always had a smile on his face. He’s a really nice guy. But in the kitchen, that’s him. He’s yelling and screaming. I kind of like working for people like that, though. It keeps you on your toes and makes you put out a better product.

TVG: What are your future plans?
LA: Definitely going to make up a resumé and try to put myself out there and hopefully the doors will open and I can better my career.

TVG: Do you think this helped your career?
LA: Yeah, I think definitely. It helped get my name out here. You’ve got people across America with LA on their breath. That’s what it was all about. Hopefully something good came out of it.

http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/LA+has+her+say/RealityTV/Exit+Interviews/Articles/090402_Hells_Kitchen_LA_LB.htm?isfa=1

TexasLady:

--- Quote from: TARAsia Fan on March 31, 2009, 07:39:33 PM ---I think she learned a lot, but at the same time, she still wanted the guys to help her and I think they were willing to do so, but Lacey spent her time complaining. It was a bit much for me, but seeing that she's now decorating cakes, it's probably what she should be doing. I wish her nothing but the best.

--- End quote ---

It's a shame that her bad attitude kept her from learning much more than she did. Her teammates did try to help her particularly the men but she just wouldn't open her mind.

I'm sure it's much less stressful for her now and I also wish her well.

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