Comedian Adrian Edmondson is the bookies' favourite to win the new series of Hell's Kitchen, beaten only by better odds for a celeb flouncing off the show.

The former The Young Ones star is given odds of 7/4 to win by Sky Bet when the show returns to our screens on Monday, with 6/4 offered for a star quitting voluntarily.

Edmondson, who recently finished third in Comic Relief's take on Fame Academy in 2005, is one of eight celebs to test their culinary skills, and their tempers, in a two-week stint under chef Marco Pierre White.

Niomi McLean-Daley, better known as hip-hop singer Miss Dynamite, is 6/1 second favourite to be crowned queen of the kitchen, together with Liverpool player Bruce Grobbelaar and Shameless star Jody Latham.

Husband and wife duo Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey are quoted at 7/1 and 10/1 respectively.

And with the ever-present risk of mishaps in the kitchen, it's 3/1 for any of White's proteges to be forced to leave the show due to injury.



08/04/2009 17:13:41