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**Season 4's Petrozza, who was a major fan favourite, passed away in November 2019 from a battle with cancer.
**Genaro DeLillo from Season 16 died out of the blue in mid-2020 for unknown causes at the age of 32.
**Two more chefs passed away in 2022; Jonathon from Season 9 (45), and Sandra from Season 12 (46), both from unknown causes.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: several contestants have had dark periods in their lives before coming on the show, and have turned to the competition to turn over a new leaf. These contestants often admits to their pasts either in confession cams, or in candid conversations with their fellow contestants. Some examples include:
** Garrett from Season 2 served a 5 year prison sentence for stolen cheques.
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** Speaking of ''[[Top Chef]]'', during the charity dinner of Episode 12 in Season 9, it's [[Funny Foreigner|FABIO!!!]]
** [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Jason "Jay" Santos]], the runner-up of Season 7, has made frequent appearances on ''Bar Rescue.'' Commenters on that show's YT videos quote this trope any time he is featured.
** The narrator in Season 13 and 14 happens to be [[Roger Craig Smith]], the current voice actor for none other than ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]].''
* [[Name's the Same]]: The winners of both Season 4 and Season 10 were named Christina.
* [[Old Shame]]: Nowadays Jeff's an insurance salesman (and before that, had been a used car dealer) and refuses to talk about his time on ''Hell's Kitchen'' in any way.
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** Benjamin from Season 17 attained runner-up (41 years old)
** Declan from Season 19 attained {{Spoiler|third place}} (42 years old)
** Scott fromCommings won Season 12 (36 years old, the oldest man to win the competition)
** {{Spoiler|Kori}} from Season 19 ({{Spoiler|37 years old, the oldest female ''Hell's Kitchen'' winner to date}})
** Ray from Season 11 placed tenth (at 51, he is the oldest contestant in the show's history)
** Richard from Season 12 placed ninth (48 years old)
** {{Spoiler|Alex Belew}}, the winner of ''Season 21: Battle of the Ages'' {{Spoiler|(40 years old, the oldest ''Hell's Kitchen'' winner to date)}}.
 
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** As one YouTube video of her at Comic Con shows, Heather's actually a big comic book collector.
** Ariel from Seasons 6 and 18 has stated that she's a fan of zombie games.
** Jason from Season 12 is a huge fan of Stan Lee, thus was psyched that the latter will be dining at Hell's Kitchen as the VIP in that season's firstsecond black jacket service.
*[[The Pete Best]]: MaryAnn Salcedo left after the third season, just as the show was starting to become more popular.
*[[Promoted Fanboy]]: All chefs who say they admire Chef Ramsay in the [[Confession Cam]] count, but Seth from Season 5 fit this so well that he seemed almost like a [[Stalker with a Crush]]. He had memorized many details about Ramsay's private life, including the type of cars he drove, and the names of his four children.