Nigella LawsonNigella Lawson promises 'sexed up' menuThings look set to get positively steamy in our celebrity kitchens this week.

Top chefs on the new series of Hell's Kitchen have already blown their lids after grub guru Jean-Christophe Novelli found contestants sneaking pizzas into the restaurant before filming even began.

And on the very first day, the ten rookies were blasted for their terrible cooking.

More trouble is forecast as Gary Rhodes and Jean-Christophe go head-to-head in the ITV reality show which goes on air tonight.

Meanwhile, Domestic Goddess Nigella Lawson is reported to be in talks for a new show which promises to sex up daytime television.

The 45-year-old mother-of-two will interview celebrity guests about food, cookery, make-up and parenting in the five-day-a-week show on ITV starting this summer.

She is one of a group of female presenters the channel is bringing in to 'sex up' its summer schedules. Others include Carol Smilie, Gaby Roslin and Gabby Logan.

The cooks on Hell's Kitchen include a builder who was expelled from cookery school for putting laxatives in a chocolate cake and a single mother whose husband left her for a young glamour model.

Each night they will serve up dishes for a restaurant packed with celebrity diners.

Blonde bombshell Aby King, 28, who used to live with model Sophie Anderton, and ex-table dancer Sam Ramplin have already said they have the hots for the top chefs.

Aby said: "JC is unbelievably sexy. He's going to be incredibly nice to ogle at - he's also got terrific imagination and is very exciting visually - he can turn a dish into something sexy like him.

"I'm very single, I am Bridget Jones to all my friends I do things like make blue soup because it looks like fun."