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Possible Spoiler Fries Hell's Kitchen Bets

Tue., Jun. 5, 2007 6:35 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

Something's smelling a little funky over in Gordon Ramsay's kitchen. And it's not because he's making his protégés cook traditional British food.

Gambling site bodog.com has suspended betting on the third season of Hell's Kitchen after the odds for one of the contestants became favorably high, moving from 7-1 to 2-1 before the show's June 4 premiere, Bodog spokesman Greg Godden told E! Online.

(SPOILER ALERT: This article names the wannabe restaurateur who is rumored to be the winner, so if you prefer your gastronomic melodrama without a side of predictability, tread lightly.)

Bodog's security department is currently investigating whether the Fox reality series has got itself a leak in addition to one profanely cantankerous celebrity chef and 12 nerve-addled underlings just dying to be cussed out by him.

Well, 11, now that 27-year-old kitchen manager Tiffany has been told to stick her head in the proverbial oven. Joining Tiffany in the bottom two was teammate Joanna, who was lambasted for her poor communication skills during the serving portion last night's task, which was for each chef to prepare his or her "signature dish."

By the end of the night, Ramsay had dubbed the all-girl Red Team "Hell's Bitches" in honor of their constant bickering. It was Aaron, on the all-guy Blue Team, who cried on-camera, however.

But if Bodog's bettors do indeed know something the average viewer doesn't, 30-year-old Rock, an executive chef from Spotsylvania, Virginia, is this season's winner and will be rising to the head chef's position at a new Italian restaurant in the Green Valley Ranch Resort and Spa in Henderson, Nevada.

And if early ratings are any indicator, plenty of people could be around to watch Rock don the winner's toque. Monday's premiere averaged 8.2 million viewers and beat out CBS' Two and a Half Men and How I Met Your Mother in the coveted 18-49 demographic.

Although rampant speculation over what might be fixed, what's real and what's been prematurely let out of the bag is the price networks and producers pay for offering up reality programming, odds are no gambling Website wants to be on the giving end of too many big paydays.

Bodog had to pull a similar plug on betting for Survivor: Panama—Exile Island in April 2006 when a flood of bets came in for eventual runner-up, Danielle DiLorenzo, when she was still only in the top seven on the pioneering CBS series' 12th season.

The online gambling hotspot also shut down the action on Survivor: The Amazon in 2003 after being tipped off to some dirty dealings among CBS employees, some of whom were betting—correctly—on who that season's top two would be.

Over the past few years, Websites such as betwwts.com and sportsbook.com have had to take a similar approach with various seasons of The Apprentice, The Amazing Race and The Bachelor when the buzz on one or two contestants became a little too loud to ignore.