<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> ← Previous Season 17 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> List of Hell's Kitchen episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> Hell's Kitchen: Rookies vs Veterans is the eighteenth season of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen and premiered on September 28, 2018, on Fox . Gordon Ramsay returns as host and head chef, and Season 10 winner Christina Wilson and British MasterChef judge James "Jocky" Petrie return as the red and blue sous chefs, respectively, alongside maitre'd Marino Monferrato . Season 18 features eight new contestants battling eight returning veterans . For the first time, the winner of Season 18 will receive a position as an executive chef at Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen Restaurant at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada . </P> <P> This will be the first season since Season 1 to not begin with men on the blue team and women on the red team (in fact, by the end of the fourth episode, the opposite would be true due to a dramatic team reshuffle). It is the third of the last four seasons to feature a chef eliminated during service . The signature dish challenge results also turned out to reflect the competition rankings, as only one chef from each team (Scott and Jen) scored as low as 2 and they turned out to be the first two chefs eliminated from the competition . </P>

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