Hell's Kitchen Finale

The season finale of Hell's Kitchen aired on July 8, 2008. After weeks of grueling cooking challenges on the FOX reality show, contestants Louis Petrozza and Christina Machamer battled it out in the kitchen for the grand prize: a job as the senior chef at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant in Los Angeles.¹ Machamer was declared the winner.

Fast Facts

1. Network: FOX
2. Season finale: July 8, 2008 at 9/8c
3. Starring: Gordon Ramsay
4. Final two contestants: Louis Petrozza and Christina Machamer
5. Winner: Christina Machamer
6. Ramsay said Machamer "had the best potential across any of the chefs in Hell's Kitchen"²
7. As the Hell's Kitchen winner, Machamer will become the senior chef at The London¹

The Final Two

47-year-old Louis Petrozza works as a catering chef at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.³ He is the oldest of the season four Hell's Kitchen contestants.⁴

25-year-old Christina Machamer of St. Louis, Missouri, was a culinary student. She graduated in 2008 from the Culinary Institute of America.⁵

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