Ten months after Hell's Kitchen season 2 aired, contestant Rachel Brown, who was eliminated during episode five, committed suicide. Keith Greene had a steady chef’s career before his tragic accidental drowning in 2012. Sara Horowitz was Justin Bieber’s tour chef before getting arrested for assaulting her partner in 2013. Hell's Kitchen runner-up Virginia Dalbeck went on to successfully own and operate multiple restaurants. The cast has evolved in some pretty interesting ways as well. There was Giacomo, the pizza chef and family restauranteur, Garrett, who learned to cook in prison, Larry, the fishmonger, and Tom, the former stockbroker. The cast of Hell's Kitchen season 2 featured 11 chefs, each from a unique background. The winner would receive $250,000 and a chef position at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant of choice. Though the season kicked off in a new way, the grand prize was the same as always. It was the first season of the series to divide the contestants by gender, the male team versus the female team, and this division has now become the show’s signature starting point. In 2006, Hell’s Kitchen season 2 aired on Fox and ended with Heather West as the winner.
