How Lisa Vanderpump and Gordon Ramsay Set Aside Their Egos to Decide Whose Competitor Won ‘Food Stars’ Season 2’s $250,000 Prize
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER WARNING: This story contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of “Gordon Ramsay‘s Food Stars” on Fox.
It may be called “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars,” but it was Lisa Vanderpump who owned the Fox competition when a contestant from her team of mentees won the second season on Thursday’s finale.
In a two-hour episode that ended with finalists Jess Druey (Team Vanderpump), Roman Desmond (Team Vanderpump) and Ali Schlichter (Team Ramsay) giving dueling presentations in a bid to win the $250,000 grand prize for their respective businesses in the food and beverage space.
And then it was up to Ramsay and the “Vanderpump Rules” star, who joined Ramsay as his co-host/rival mentor, for Season 2, to come to an agreement and decide which competitor won — and which of them won by association. “I know it cuts him deeply, the fact that I won,” Vanderpump told Variety. “But I think the whole point in the last episode is when we really do come together and say, competition aside, who wins?
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