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Five Days

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First episode dateJanuary 23, 2007
GenresCrime Film
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Season 2 features a new storyline and cast headed by Suranne Jones. She portrays Laurie Franklin, an off-duty police officer who finds herself caught up in a strange sequence of events beginning when a commuter train is halted by a suicide jumper. Laurie then learns that a newborn baby has been abandoned at the local hospital, and it soon becomes clear to her that the two events must be connected. But both the train's victim and the baby remain unidentified. As she is drawn deeper into the mystery, Laurie realizes this might not be a simple case at all, but something much darker.

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Michael and Gordon Ramsay in the Finale of Hell's Kitchen

After nine weeks of grueling competition, chef Michael Wray his last examination faced.

The shy But talented chef had managed, through the last to The First U.S. series "Gordon Ramsay show "Hell's Kitchen. His last task was the " in his own kitchen in full view of TV cameras And One of The World 's most feared bosses.

It was a test with Michael , then at the age of 27, pass.

shots of the big, heavily tattooed young chef embraced was Ramsay after winning The Show , beaming into millions of households around The World in the year 2005.

"For the First Time , I feel like I'm in control of My Own future," said Michael on the map. "I've proven myself to myself and that is important. "

Michael initially thought that he had won, to open the $250,000 prize money for his own restaurant. "As Michael was celebrating the victory a restaurant," Ramsay's voiceover said, "I realized that a Person of Michael 's Talent - I didn't want to come him way. "

Ramsay made Michael an offer to work alongside him in London. After a few nervous advice a shocked Michael agreed. The Room broke out in cheers.

But Michael would later change his mind. "It was the hardest decision I had to ever make. I regret it all The Time ," he tells The Bbc .

"I was In Hell 's kitchen with a drug problem. I was now afraid to go to London with this huge addiction. "

grew up in rural Colorado, Michael has been cooking from an early age, often assists his father in The Kitchen . He Says it was a way of expressing themselves outside of the classroom, where he fought, by his Attention Deficit disorder.

He dropped out of High School and went to work in a kitchen.

In 1999, Michael spent two years training to be a chef in London. It was during this period, he was very aware of a chef with a fearsome temper, called Gordon Ramsay , who built a name for himself As One of The World 's best chefs

"He had this reputation, these badass-in-chief, No One wants to be reminded to Chaos," Michael .

"I've been trying like a year to work with him for free, But No One was there, it was really exclusive. "

When he heard about the auditions for the "Hell's Kitchen, by his in-laws that work in the industry, Michael decided that would be his Best Shot at getting in the vicinity of Ramsay. He applied and went through a rigorous process of interviews and tests. Finally, he was told he had the round of the last 12.

Michael saw The Show as A Chance to show his Talent , and draw on Ramsay's expertise. But once the cameras rolled, Michael realized, it would be more difficult than he thought.

He learned that the hell in The Kitchen would be open to The Public , and a competitor is eliminated after each service. Cameras roll 24/7, even when asleep.

"He was not the boss of Ramsay, he was this happy, exuberant child," Says Michael

"I went into this thinking that I'm going to learn to win all of these great cooking stuff, Gordon Ramsay , And Then I ended up achieving, I needed to do what I could to stay on this show," he Says .

"I wanted to lose not on national TV. "

But Michael had little to fear.

in Spite of Ramsay tells him he had a "palate like a cow in the ass" in The First episode, Michael soon proved to be a pioneer.

While the participants regularly receive the famous wrath of Ramsay's tongue, Michael usually avoided verbal attacks. He won the task and his team regularly come in to support the fight.

in Spite of Ramsay's horrible persona in The Kitchen , Michael said, he was the exact opposite of the outside world. And even if Ramsay would let rip too, he realized, it was for a good reason.

"I knew not to clear whether he will be able to his boss persona once he got from his boss the clothing, But as soon as he changed, he was not the boss of Ramsay, he was this happy, exuberant child," Says Michael .

"then he leaves The Restaurant , I think that persona is still embedded in The Kitchen , like a poltergeist. If he leaves, people are still going to be as perfect as it can be for each and every dish," he Says .

After I of any other competitor, Michael off against Ralph Pagano , a face in the finals. Both chefs had to create their own menu and decor, to help with the former candidate of the return, you will lead your kitchen.

Although Ramsay expressed reservations about the question of whether Michael was assertive enough to run his own kitchen, his cooking by The End of the rail capacity and of high quality.

After the service finished, Michael and Ralph were made to stand in front of Two Doors . The win-the door was unclosed, while The Other was locked.

Michael stepped forward, turned the handle and walked into a room full of cheers.

"put it in My mind for a little bit," he recalls.

"What happens now with the rest of My Life ? I was flooded with Possibilities . "

Michael looked from Ralph Pagano in The Final

But Ramsay's offer to work alongside him in London immediately, Michael 's face had made for a problem that has been brewing for some time.

A couple of years before he appeared on Hell's Kitchen, Michael had back surgery for scoliosis and was prescribed powerful opioid painkillers for his recovery. He was soon addicted.

During filming, he gave his prescription pills-producers, while also smuggling his own in The House . Even then, he still had more of his doctor.

"It was already the half of my spiritual energy, only to have my addiction in check is the only way I could work and live a Normal Life ," he Says .

Michael was flown out to London for Five Days and got a taste of what could lie for him. But in The End , the fears, the made no access to his medication him finally reject it.

"Gordon wanted to move me there. He was probably a little upset that I have to go to London," he Says .

"He's moving with this young chef, to show to serve London, as this is all done, and I had to reject him. "

Ramsay's representatives did not respond to a request for comment.

Despite turning down the chance to work with one of The World 's best chefs, Michael still had a lot going on for him in the United States.

He was preparing to open his own restaurant in Los Angeles . He had money in The Bank and expecting his first child with his wife Lola.

Then the tragedy came.

"died In a couple of weeks after the opening of The Restaurant , My Daughter ," Says Michael .

"We had some complications at birth, where you lost your breath for seven or Eight Minutes . She lost to much oxygen to your brain and died. "

Michael could not prevent his addiction under the hold of his life.

"you put me in a tail spin for The Next couple of years," he Says . "It was to crumble it all starts around me. "

Michael 's life took a turn for the worse after the death of his daughter

Michael managed to carry in The Restaurant for about Six Weeks after his daughter died, before walking away.

broke His relationship apart and he began to live out of his truck. Michael would still find work, in The Kitchen , especially as the Fund was able to his spiraling drug use.

long Ago, Michael lived under an underpass in the vicinity of Hollywood Boulevard .

"I was an absolute loner," he Says .

"I would listen To My radio go out at night and sleep. It was almost like it was really nothing happens in My Life . It was like existing," he adds.

"I stuck a needle in my arm, I don't want to see someone that that. "

Though Michael was on The Streets and in the adult body own addiction, he would always find a way to cook. At one point, he was the leading classes in the high-end-Sur-La-table save the day, then retired to take under the leadership of Drugs and sleep in the night.

"I lived in this dual life, where you had a Kitchen this persona of" chef Michael from Bright 's will teach you guys cut the onions today, But then at the same Time I had this raging drug that I hide the experiments from The World ," he Says .

With all of his money goes for Drugs , Michael was forced to visit homeless shelters for the courts, But would rustle in the rule at The End to dishes in The Kitchen for the rest of The Shelter .

After years of Michael always highly addictive painkillers do to the recipe, being a doctor in New Mexico , where he had moved, finally, refused to him any more.

With the withdrawals, he began to panic. He tried to check himself in rehab But was told that his payments were too strict, so he would need to go to the hospital.



Source of news: bbc.com

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