Going green: Ms Dynamite may have trouble coping with meat as she has recently become a vegetarian'The last two years I haven't done so much as I have been travelling so much that I am kind of rusty so I am going to have to get into the kitchen and chop.
'I don't know if I am good [at cooking] but I love it, I have never put myself in a position to be rated.'
One of the celebrities who will be challenged the most is hip-hop star Ms Dynamite, whose real name is Niomi McLean Daley.
Niomi, 27, admits she has recently become vegetarian so cooking meat may be difficult.
She explained: 'Once I started to cut down on the meat and dairy products, it started to improve - it was all down to vanity, to be honest.
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'I don't want to get on my high horse about it but I do feel a lot healthier in my diet. I don't think I would struggle to cook meat during the show but gutting and skinning an animal would be a different story.'
Former Young Ones funnyman Ade is hoping to match his wife Jennifer Saunders' good cooking skills on the show.
The 52-year-old, who lives on a farm in Devon, said: 'Jennifer is such a good cook. I want to learn how not to do the thing that I do which is chuck too much in - herbs and spices and soy sauce.
'We have our own cows and sheep at home, as we live on a farm and I make great roast beef.'
Retired footballer Bruce, 51, has a love of game meat thanks to his upbringing in South Africa and admitted he is more nervous about going on the show than he ever was going on the pitch.
He said: 'I've had experience of broody people in the profession that I've played in, in football, and we've tended to know what to do at the time. But with a head chef with a broody personality, I don't know how we're going to be, how we're going to react to that.'
At 23, Jody - who plays 'Lip' Gallagher in Shameless - is the youngest contestant on the show.
As he prepares to open a restaurant called Jack's in his native Lancashire, Jody said the timing was perfect for him to appear on Hell's Kitchen.
He said: 'I don't have much experience in the industry and I figured there's no time like the present to learn and there's no better person to learn from than Marco really.
'To me it's more about learning the whole concept of the business and how it runs. I think to watch him [Marco] in the kitchen and watch how he is as a mentor and as a teacher and as a professional chef running a kitchen and having an opportunity to learn from that.'
07th April 2009
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HICHAM
