It looks like Gordon Ramsay will soon have his very own videogame to add to his extended “Evil Empire” of culinary terror. It’s being reported that Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen television show will have a game released to coincide with it’s third season premiere in the Summer of 2008.

I can’t even begin to imagine what the interface will look like but I imagine something along the lines of Cooking Mamma meets Grand Theft Auto (a girl can hope). I think if I had the option though I’d rather play as Gordon Ramsay. I could really use all of that virtual ranting and raving to relief some pent up stress.

So that Hell’s Kitchen finale — how cool was that!? Yeah, I’m kidding. I should have suspected that this week wouldn’t be the finale, but I let FOX blindly convince me that Rock and Bonnie would duke it out to the death. I was wrong. I honestly started to get panicked half way through the program when nothing at all had happened yet. I wondered if it was really a two-hour special and Tivo had left me high and dry. One should never doubt Tivo though. Tune in Monday (yet again) to see if I’ve correctly predicted a Bonnie Muirhead upset. Or maybe Fox will trick us all again and dash our hopes by queuing up a clip show.

Giada De Laurentiis is doing her best to become even more “over exposed” than she already is. Next up on the docket is a line of specially designed push-up bras for Victoria’s Secret (I kid! I kid!). In all seriousness though, Giada has agreed to increase her co-hosting duties on the Today Show as well as produce her own line of specialty oils and spices in conjunction with Barilla. She’s also designing a line of Pyrex. I hope it’s pink! And that it doesn’t explode in my oven…

Since it’s not bad enough that I pay over $4 for a coffee at Starbucks, now I have to be ridiculed for what I buy. The Starbucks Oracle thinks my frequent choice of Grande Non-Fat White Mocha makes me “clueless” and believes that my time would be better spent at the mall and/or drinking wine coolers. Well…admittedly I did enjoy those Sofia Minis. When I entered my favorite summer drink, a Venti Unsweetened Passion Fruit Iced Tea, it was declared that I was destined to become a “crack addict.” Awesome!

PS: If you live in the Boston area and love B.Good as much as I do (and yes I still love you, even if your calories are a little higher than we previously thought) than make sure to check out the new Coolidge Corner location opening very very soon. In addition they’re having a pre-opening celebration next Tuesday night (August 14) between 7 and 9 PM @ 455 Harvard Street. You just need to bring a copy of the B Good “Brookline Grand Opening” Newsletter to get in. If you sign up before Monday, they’ll be sending a reminder email/newsletter out about the event and you’ll be able to score an invite as well as the chance to win free burgers for life.

I think we can all agree that Hell’s Kitchen is the consummate train wreck of culinary reality TV. But if this is the case, why am I, and so many other people completely addicted? I even have a season pass set for it on Tivo. Do we tune in en masse each week just to watch grossly under-qualified cooks be shamed and ridiculed by Gordon Ramsay? Why do I care if Julia can actually make a Beef Wellington correctly, and when are these people ever going to get that nasty looking pea risotto perfected? Probably never, but after sticking with the show all summer long, they’re finally down to the final two contestants. Pastry chef, Jen Yemola was axed this week and now Ramsay has pitted Rock Harper, the clear odds-on favorite who is already an experienced Executive Chef, against Bonnie Muirhead, the whiny and perky Nanny/Personal Chef. Now I’d like to think that Rock will win. Obviously he’s the individual with the most appropriate resume to run a restaurant, but my odds are on cute as a button Bonnie and her wide eyed ingenue-in-the-kitchen act. Who do you think will walk away victorious from Hell’s Kitchen, and who will Gordon Ramsay browbeat into tears? Tune in next week to find out!

(Originally posted on the Well Fed Network’s blog Edible TV)