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Ramsay betrayed me, says Hell's Kitchen winner: Television contestant'south fury over Savoy Grill job prize that never happened

Fury: Hell's Kitchen US winner Holli Ugalde has been denied a risk to take up her prize of working at London'south Savoy Grill

The boudin blanc foie gras with spiced quince has been chilled and preparations made for the lobster Thermidor.

The Art Deco chandeliers have been polished and the wood panelling burnished to a fine lustre.

The only thing missing when London's Savoy Grill reopens tomorrow after
a 3-twelvemonth £220 million renovation of the iconic Savoy hotel is Holli Ugalde: the winner of the seventh series of Hell's Kitchen in America, who was promised the head chef part as her prize.

While the glitterati celebrate the return of the restaurant where Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Frank Sinatra had regular tables, Ugalde is fuming more than 5,000 miles away in the town of Beaumont, California, outraged at what she perceives as Gordon Ramsay's treachery.

'I'm extremely disappointed and I feel a little betrayed,' says Ugalde, anile 26.

'I was so excited to win the contest, and crushed when told I wasn't going to the Savoy.

But I'm more upset that I've heard nothing from Chef Ramsay. All I've seen is his press release maxim I'1000 not going to London later all.'

Ramsay, 44, has claimed that Ugalde could not be given the position because the Habitation Part failed to corroborate her visa application.

Merely Ugalde says: 'My winning season finished filming in Feb 2009, and Chef Ramsay and his people have had almost 2 years of planning for this.

I would have idea they would take asked me to fill in some paperwork to apply for a visa, simply I've never once filled in one single slice of paper. I don't know how the immigration process works, simply I'm betting at that place's at least a few forms to fill in. I don't know if they even applied for my visa.'

Ugalde's amanuensis, Zlata Faerman, claims the visa excuse is 'a smokescreen' and Ramsay decided he could not identify such a fabled restaurant in the hands of a Telly competition winner.

'Holli's face just didn't fit for the Savoy,' says Faerman.

Obtaining a UK work visa should have been simple. Ugalde has no criminal record, has demonstrated unique skills by winning the competition and was offered a fixed-term contract after which she would return to the United States.

'I called about 20 million times to find out what was going on,' Ugalde says.

'I was repeatedly told, "We'll see what we can practice." I was a little concerned because nada was happening. But I figured Chef Ramsay's people knew what they were doing. They've washed this before. Finally somebody from Fox TV said, "You're not going." '

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Ugalde had already felt cheated when Ramsay announced this summer that Andy Cook had been hired every bit the Savoy Grill's caput chef, and that she was to take a subordinate position.

'It's false advertising,' Ugalde says.

'On the bear witness I was told that if I won I'd be head chef of the Savoy Grill. It was said repeatedly during filming and aired on TV. Since so I've heard him say that the head chef position was never open to me, and that he hired Andy Cook long before I won the competition. '

Ugalde is a single mother who separated from husband Philip four years ago and was counting on the job at the Savoy to transform her life.

'There's been a lot of disappointment,' she admits. 'I was preparing to motility my family to England for at to the lowest degree a year. My half-dozen-year-former son Dylan told his friends that he's going. He's upset. He's and then embarrassed now that we're staying in California.'

The row is only the latest embarrassment for Ramsay, notwithstanding, whose company lost more than £iv million last year. He is also involved in a family feud, afterwards firing his father-in-constabulary, Chris Hutcheson, 62, as CEO of Gordon Ramsay Holdings.

'I've turned downward numerous opportunities, because I knew I'd exist caput chef at the Savoy,' says Ugalde, who was a chef at a restaurant in California.

'I've had my life on concur for almost two years, because I was committed to going to London.'

ITV claims information technology made its 'best efforts' to obtain a visa for Ugalde, and a representative for Ramsay says: 'We were distressing that Holli Ugalde can't join the team. In spite of our best efforts, we were unable to obtain a work visa for Holli. Holli elected to receive the cash prize instead.'

A TV source claims: 'At no time has either Gordon Ramsay or the Savoy indicated to producers that they didn't desire Holli to work at the restaurant. In fact, Gordon expressed disappointment to the producers when he found out that she wasn't able to obtain the visa and work at the Savoy.'

Ugalde considered suing, merely says: 'I signed a contract for Hell'due south Kitchen that was as thick equally a volume, and somewhere in there it probably says they can substitute prizes. But that doesn't make it right. I received some cash in place of the Savoy chore. I'm non allowed to say how much.

'Yeah, Hell's Kitchen opened up a lot of opportunities for me. Just now I'm not going to London it would at to the lowest degree be squeamish if Chef Ramsay had the decency to call and permit me know what was going on. I know it was merely a reality Goggle box bear witness, simply it's my life, later all.'

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