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One chef pissed off Gordon Ramsay just a little less than the other.

Find out who has been invited to join the Brit's culinary empire after the jump.

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Well, some actors are squared away.

Members of the 70,000-strong American Federation of TV and Radio Artists have voted 62.4 percent in favor of ratifying the contract its leaders cooked up in May with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers, which represents major studios and networks.

"Today's vote reflects the ability of AFTRA members to recognize a solid contract when they see it," union president Roberta Reardon said in a statement, adding that the agreement, which only involves a handful of prime-time shows, followed an "unprecedented disinformation campaign aimed at interfering with our ratification process."

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The appetizer was hot.

The penultimate episode of Hell's Kitchen was TV's most watched show among young adults, the latest Nielsen Media Research stats show.

Overall, the Fox cooking-and-yelling series averaged just over 8 million viewers, and finished 10th.

The installment featured finalists Louis Petrozza and Christina Machamer building their "dream" restaurants. Harsh taskmaster Gordon Ramsay makes his final call tonight, bringing to a close the show's fourth season.

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Big Brother is rerooting itself in history.

CBS has announced the cast for the 10th edition of the voyeuristic reality show, a gimmick-free lineup of fresh faces who are purely in it to win it (and perhaps make disparaging remarks about autism, use the N-word or dump iced tea on a housemate's head).

Unlike previous recent seasons, which featured couples, exes, long-lost nemeses and Big Brother "All-Stars," this installment will hearken back to the show's original concept: 13 strangers live together and battle it out for a $500,000 prize.

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Maybe it's time for Black Sabbath devotees to renounce their fanhood: Ozzy Osbourne is moving into Osmond territory.

According to Variety, Fox has given a six-episode pickup to an hour-long variety show hosted by the 59-year-old erstwhile Prince of F--king Darkness, 55-year-old wife Sharon, 23-year-old son Jack and 22-year-old daughter Kelly, that's said to be a throwback to such programs of yore as—gulp—ABC's Donny and Marie and CBS' The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.

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You gotta love a Soprano who keeps it in the family.

Multiple sources have confirmed that the lovely Jamie-Lynn Sigler (aka Meadow of HBO's The Sopranos) is returning to HBO for a three-episode arc on Entourage...

Get all the details in E! Online's Watch With Kristin TV blog>>

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A former employee of Rachael Ray's daytime talk show is suing the CBS network for $1 million, saying he was discriminated against for trimming the fat out of his diet—all of it.

Aaron Ferguson, an accountant who has suffered anorexia for six years, claims he was forced out of his job because of his eating disorder.

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Sheryl Crow thinks all horses should be free to soak up the sun.

The Detours artist has joined Viggo Mortensen and Peter Coyote as a host of the upcoming Documentary Channel feature Saving the American Wild Horse, which examines the animals' history in the U.S. and questions their fate as the government deems more and more roaming land off-limits.

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The women of Lost are nowhere to be found.

None of the eligible female players from ABC's mind-boggling island mystery—in addition to the XX crew of Battlestar Galactica, women married to Bill Paxton and hardly anyone who solves crime—made it onto the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences' list of semifinalists for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

Not that some pretty fine thesps didn't make the cut, per the list obtained by the L.A. Times' Gold Derby blog. But this year it was lawyers, moms, people giving or receiving therapy, people who just plain need therapy and some familiar hot doctors who tickled Emmy voters' fancy.

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Splash, splat, waaah…

The sounds of summer TV are distinctive—and popular, with solid premieres last week for Wipeout, I Survived a Japanese Game Show and The Baby Borrowers, per Nielsen Media Research stats.

ABC's Wipeout, a slippery, sloppy obstacle course fit for American gladiators, but tackled by American Joes and Janes, was the most watched show among TV's prized, but ever-dwindling pool of 18-to-49-year-olds.

Overall, it averaged 10 million viewers, posted its network's biggest summer premiere in three years, and ranked second behind NBC's veteran summer show, America's Got Talent (11.7 million).

I Survived a Japanese Game Show, an ABC offering fit for a Survivor-chosen island, but set on, yes, a pads-and-helmets-required Japanese game show, pulled in at 10th place (8 million).

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