The eighteenth season of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen (officially known as Hell's Kitchen: Rookies vs. Veterans) began airing 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. This season features eight new contestants battling eight returning veterans. For the first time, the winner of this season will receive a position as an executive chef at Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen Restaurant at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first season since season 1 to not begin with men on the blue team and women on the red team. It is also the third of the last four seasons to feature a chef eliminated during service, the first season since season 13 that no chef from the winning team was eliminated, and the first season since season 12 where two chefs quit. This is also the first season to have a chef quit before the finals. Ariel Contreras-Fox, who previously finished in third place on Season 6, won the competition; she is the second consecutive returnee, and sixth consecutive woman to do so. She is also the ninth contestant to win the competition without being nominated for elimination once, after Kimberly-Ann Ryan, Meghan Gill, La Tasha McCutchen, Christina Wilson, Holli Ugalde, Dave Levey, Heather West, and Michael Wray.
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着力创新性表达九省年俗风情、文旅要素，增强了非遗文创的生动式展现，以情节式的展现，增强情感元素的传递，确保既有趣味性又具备文化深度，让传统文化在润物细无声中走进观众心坎，达到共赏、共鸣、共情、共感的传播效果，为观众呈现一场黄河版的传统文化大会。
本季《未来中国》以“生成式AI创新应用”为主题，将展演项目、讨论核心聚焦于AI技术。邀请清华大学、上海交通大学等多个专业高校团队，以及大量顶尖的科创企业，在项目比拼中展现当下中国最前沿的AI科创成果。
