电影The eighteenth season of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen (officially known as Hell's Kitchen: Rookies vs. Veterans) b egan airing o n Septembe r 28, 2018 on Fox. Go rdon Ramsay return s as ho st and hea d chef, an d Season 10 w inner Christin a Wilson and B ritish Mas terChef judge James &quot ;Jocky&quot ; Petrie retu rn as th e red and blue sous chef s, respective ly, alongside maitre 'd Marino Mon ferrato. This seas on featu res eight new cont estants battl ing eight return ing vetera ns. For the first time , the winner of this season will receive a position as an executive chef at Gordon R amsay Hell&a mp;#39;s Kitc hen Rest aurant at Caesa rs Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. This i s the first sea son since sea son 1 to not begin wit h men on the blue te am and women on the red t eam. It is also th e third of the las t four sea sons to fe ature a chef eliminated during service, the fi rst seaso n since se ason 13 that n o chef from t he winn ing team wa s elimina ted, and the first seas on sinc e season 1 2 where two ch efs quit. Th is is also the first s eason to have a chef quit be fore the fi nals. Ariel Contreras-Fox , who prev iously f inished in thir d place on Season 6, won the competiti on; she is th e secon d consec utive return ee, and s ixth co nsecutive wo man to do so. She is a lso the ninth c ontestant t o win the comp etition without being no minated for elimina tion once, after Kimberly- Ann Ryan, Megh an Gill, La Tasha M cCutchen, C hristina Wil son, Hol li Ugalde, Dave L evey, Hea ther West, and Michael Wray.！