Chas Turner

* Personas

**Charles Turner**, known as **Chas**, is a contestant on Hell's Kitchen: Personas, and a participant in the Duality Saga. He is currently still in the running.

## Personas

### Episode 1

Upon arriving in Hell's Kitchen, there was a proof of commitment. Afterwards, Ramsay told the chefs to cook their signature dishes.

Chas was the last member of the blue team to have his dish judged. Ramsay noted his boldness and the complex flavour of the dish, so he scored 5 points. Despite his efforts, the Blue Team lost the challenge 28-30, and they were punished by setting up the dorms, including unloading the mattresses from the delivery truck. When Eddie started laying into Lukas for overcooking his dish, Chas stated that, despite hating losing, Eddie's behaviour was unacceptable. He was later seen studying the menu with Josiah, Louis and Lukas. During prep, after Cory was unable to name the entrees, Chas mentioned how this was not good, as half the team hadn't memorised the menu.

During dinner service, Chas was on the meat station with Robin. When Norm turned up the stove's heat to cook the risotto faster, Chas explained to the audience that this would cause it to cook unevenly. When the kitchen moves onto entrees, Chas sent his wellingtons up to the pass. They were perfectly cooked. However, Eddie's garnish was overseasoned. When Eddie talked back to Ramsay, Chas sarcastically called him a humble man. He went over to the garnish station in order to help Eddie calm down and cook the garnish properly. When Cory, Eddie and Louis are kicked out, Chas makes the quick decision to jump on garnish. The Red Team eventually had to be brought into the Blue Kitchen to complete service. This frustrates Robin, but Chas tells him to calm down. Eventually they completed the service.

The blue team lost the service, and they had to nominate 2 people for elimination. Chas stated that he'd never seen such a disaster since he began in the culinary world, and that he knew who was to blame. During deliberation, Norm mentions Eddie squaring off with the chef. Chas seconds this saying he embarrassed himself, Ramsay and the entire team. When Eddie accuses Robin of confusing him, Chas jumps to his defense, telling Eddie that you don't need total silence to tell when spinach tastes like shit.

Chas was not nominated for elimination, but he did explain to Ramsay about the accusations Eddie made towards Robin.

### Episode 2

After Cory's elimination, Chas joined a meeting hosted by Josiah, attended by Lukas, Louis, Robin and Norm. He noted that the reason they were failing was because people didn't know the menu properly. They are soon joined by Eddie.

The next morning, at 4:32 am, the chefs were asleep in their beds, when a group of Japanese taiko drummers snuck into the dorms and woke everybody up. Sous Chef Jay appeared and told everyone to head downstairs to meet Ramsay, who stated that the opening service was memorable for all the wrong reasons. He then introduced the Egg Relay Challenge, in which the chefs would form pairs to cook four egg dishes, which were poached, soft-boiled, sunny side up, and scrambled.

In the challenge, Chas was paired up with Robin. He cooked the soft-boiled and scrambled. The pair scored all but their poached egg, so score 3 points. The Blue Team won the challenge 12-10, and were rewarded with a helicopter trip to Geoffrey’s in Malibu for a seafood lunch, with Ramsay deciding to join them. Chas expressed concern as he'd never gone on a helicopter ride before, and thought it might damage him. During prep, after Robin and Eddie got into a major fight, Robin stormed out of the kitchen. Chas followed after him and convinced him to hold it together and work with Eddie, even if he didn't like him.

During dinner service, Chas was on the garnish station. He asked Josiah if he needed any help, as the latter was running the fish station on his own. Josiah refused, and after he sent up 6 orders of scallops that were all perfect, Chas noted how Josiah was killing it on the fish station, and was oozing with raw talent. Chas and Josiah were seen working well together through the service. At one point, Chas suddenly stopped cooking, and leaned against the counter. He was breathing heavily, and Ramsay asked if he was okay. Robin came to his aid, but Chas just raised his hand to tell the former to stop. Ramsay called for the medic, but Chas refused, saying that he had a job to do. He sent his garnish, and Ramsay complimented him and Josiah for getting the kitchen off to a great start. After Norm and Lukas were kicked out, the trio of Chas, Josiah, and Louis carried the Blue Kitchen to the end.

The Red Team beat the Blue Team by one table, and Chas collapsed to his knees from disappointment. Ramsay noted Chas' strong effort despite how much pain he was clearly in. When Lukas asked why everyone was being so quiet, Chas remarked that they'd made up their minds already.

Chas was not nominated for elimination, but when Halle switched over to the Blue Team, he had to keep Robin from objecting to the idea.

### Episode 3

Following Norm’s elimination, Chas was seen demanding that Halle find a way to get Eddie under control.

The next day, the chefs went downstairs to find the lights dimmed, like at elimination. Then, Ramsay said that the errors from the previous night were all because of poor communication from both teams. After a difficult decision, he ordered Ali and Lukas to step forward, and told them that he could not work with chefs that would not communicate. After, Ramsay told them to take off their jackets. However, instead of being eliminated, they received new jackets for the next challenge, and Sous Chefs Christina and Jay gave the other chefs new jackets. Ramsay explained that for the Jacket Challenge, each chef had one recipe on the back of their jacket, but the only way they could properly cook them was that one of their teammates would read it to them.

In the challenge, Chas was paired with Robin. He deciphered Robin’s dish as being an empanada, and Robin deciphered his as being spring rolls. He also noticed that Eddie seemed a lot less angry, and was even helping Halle, and wondered if maybe he was sexually frustrated. When faced off against Scarlet, neither of them scored, as Chas had lost some of the spring rolls, and Scarlet had gone against the recipe. The Blue Team lost the challenge after a tiebreaker, and were punished by taking in a delivery of 100 pounds of sea bass, and prepping it for the following service. Eddie was pissed at Lukas for sending a raw burger to Chef Ramsay, to which Chas commented that Eddie always seemed to target him, and that despite himself and Louis being more responsible for the challenge loss, neither of them were getting any heat. Later, after Louis inquired about Eddie being nervous around Halle, Chas jokingly remarked that Josiah had “already filled that spot”. When the women returned from the reward, Chas told his team not to look the devil in the eye.

During dinner service, Chas was working tableside. When Ramsay thanked the Blue Team for getting them off to a good start, Chas secretly hoped the former hadn’t cursed the rest of the service. He was seen charming the diners with his witty sense of humour and his natural charisma. At one point, he keeled over, and then collapsed, letting out a silent scream of agony. With the cart unattended, a fire erupted from the stove-top, and Eddie ran over to put it out. Chas managed to get up, and claim that he was okay. The medics came over, but Chas, in a frantic state, told them to piss off. He later struggled to put the tempura together, but the customers didn’t seem to mind. The Blue Team lost the service, and had to nominate two people for elimination. During deliberation, Robin asked Chas what happened out in the dining room. Chas just responded that he had felt a little bit of pain then moved on, but Eddie didn’t buy it, stating that it had ruined the mood out on the dining room. Chas held his ground, not letting a word seep out, saying that they could nominate him if they wanted, and that Chef Ramsay would see through their bullshit.

Chas was the second nominee for elimination, with Lukas as the first. However, Ramsay disagreed with this decision, and asked why. Chas then revealed that he suffered from porphyria, which he described as toxic proteins building up in his blood. In the end, Chas’ nomination was rejected, and Sonny was called forward in his place. After being dismissed, Chas said that his porphyria wasn't affecting his performances, so wondered why bother telling it.

### Episode 4

Following Sonny's elimination, Josiah and Louis talk to Chas about his illness, and he remarks that it isn't affecting his performances, and he won't end up on the chopping block again.

The next day, Sous Chefs Christina and Jay came into the dorms, gave the chefs coloured jerseys, and told them to head downstairs. Arriving at a football field, Ramsay explained how football was considered an American Classic, and revealed the American Classics Challenge. Each team would grab footballs for ingredients to use for macaroni and cheese, pizza, burger, and spaghetti, and both teams would be working in pairs. Chas got paired with Halle. Then, Ramsay gave both teams 30 seconds to decide which pair would be cooking which dish. After, Ramsay launched the footballs in the air for the chefs to collect in five minutes. After five minutes, the chefs had their ingredients picked, and Ramsay brought them back to Hell’s Kitchen to cook their dishes.

After 40 minutes of cooking, Ramsay revealed that he would be judging only one dish from each pair, and asked the chefs to decide what dishes would be dropped. Halle dropped in favour of Chas. After Lukas won the pizza round, Chas called it a "comeback meal". For the mac and cheese round, Chas went up against Chantelle, and due to his solid execution and Chantelle's unusual execution, Chas won the round. After a tiebreaker, the blue team won the challenge and were rewarded with a go-kart activity at K1 speed, much to Chas’ disappointment, as he couldn’t participate. During the race, he noted that Eddie's bullying nature was even shining through with how he was targeting Lukas.

During dinner service, Chas was on the appetiser station with Halle. He was shown to have really good control over the station, so much so that Halle was comfortable leaving him on the station alone to help Lukas. Later on, Chas and Halle had to cook for a 12-top, and Chas claimed that Halle was leading the team in a way that hadn't been seen before, not even from himself, while Halle claimed that Chas was working well for someone with a medical condition. The kitchen sent their components up and Ramsay complimented the teamwork between Chas, Halle and Lukas. Later on, Chas expressed his delight over Lukas' growth over the past day, and excitement that they might finish service on time.

As it becomes a race to the finish line, Chas jumps over to the garnish station to assist Eddie, and the team sends up their final tickets, winning the service for the first time. He claimed it felt so good to finally kick the Red Team's asses, and that he'd be ready to do it again next time. He's later seen in a group hug with the rest of the team.

### Episode 5

The next morning, the chefs went downstairs, where Ramsay told them that they have to be creative while thinking on-the-spot, before revealing a craps table. For the Craps Challenge, each chef would roll a die once, and choose an ingredient starting with the letter it landed on. Chas rolled and landed on R, so said radish. Both teams had 30 minutes to cook the dish, and the blue team spent a long time trying to figure out how to work around the grapefruit. When Louis came up with a way to get around the grapefruit problem, Chas called him a lifesaver, and said that they believed they had a shot now.

The blue team won the challenge and were rewarded with a private jet ride to see locales such as the Paris Strip, Hoover Dam, and the Grand Canyon. Chas reiterated that Louis was to thank for their day out. During prep, Chas got increasingly concerned about Eddie’s behaviour, especially after the previous night’s communication breakdown with Lukas.

During dinner service, Chas was on the garnish station. He expressed concern about Robin and Lukas not getting on as it was affecting their performance. When Robin struggled to read a ticket back to Ramsay, Chas reminded him. When they moved on to entrees, Chas tried to communicate with the meat station, but noted that Halle was doing all the talking. He barked at Eddie and demanded that he talk with him as well. Eddie retorted at him and said he had to focus, to which Chas stated in a confessional that multitasking is the bread and butter of a line cook, so didn’t understand what the problem is. Louis backed up Chas, telling Eddie to talk to his team. Eventually the blue team came together and finished service, and Chas commented that he’s overall proud of how service went, even if there were hiccups.

Both teams won the service, but had to nominate two people they felt they could do without. While the team seemed settled on Lukas and Robin due to what happened on apps, Chas just wasn’t confident in the decision, as Ramsay did ask for whom they could do without, and he didn’t see Lukas as disposable in any way. He asked the team why they were ignoring Eddie, since he was likely the most toxic member of the team. Eddie was stunned by the remark and challenged Chas, who recounts all the times Eddie got unnecessarily aggressive. Louis backs up Chas, stating that even today he was being unresponsive and sometimes outright rude to them.

Chas was not nominated for elimination, but when Eddie was caught lying about the nominations, he explained that the team deemed Lukas overall a stronger asset to the team as they felt they could help him, while if Eddie screwed up, it could outright lead to unnecessary conflict. Eddie told Chas to go fuck himself, and Chas said “point proven.” When Eddie said in his plea that he’d done nothing but good things, Chas sarcastically listed “bullying Lukas” as one of those things, to which Eddie gave Chas the finger. After being dismissed, Chas was outraged that Robin went home since he wasn’t disrupting the team dynamic.

## Chas Turner

### Episode Eliminated

TBD

* According to his medical history, he suffers from acute intermittent porphyria. He’s one of the few sufferers of this disease to actually be affected by it.
	+ He's stated in post-show interviews that his attacks in Episodes 2 and 3 were actually closer to anxiety attacks at the thought of having a porphyria attack, rather than actual ones. This theory is supported by the fact that most porphyria attacks last around 5-7 days.

## Quotes

* *(About Eddie)* "I know the guy hates to lose, so do I, we all do, but I'm not gonna break into this unacceptable behaviour."
* "We're fucked. Half of our guys don't know that menu inside out."
* *(In response to Norm turning up the heat)* "When you change the heat, you don't change the rate at which it cooks. You change *where* it cooks. He's going to burn it."
* *(About Eddie, sarcastically)* "What a humble man. I mean, how couldn't he be, barking back at the chef, putting us further in the shit. Real nice guy."
* *(After losing service)* "I'd never seen such a horrible disaster. All the time I've worked in the culinary industry, it's never gone that fucking badly. And I know just who's responsible for it."
* *(After Eddie's accusation)* "Eddie, I don't know how you confuse your ear and your palette. You don't need total silence to tell when spinach tastes like shit."
* *(About the reward)* "Oh shit. I've never been on a helicopter before. I might get damaged from this."
* *(About Josiah)* "He's killing over there on fish. I've been with the guy for a few days, and I know that he's oozing with raw talent."
* *(After having the medic called for him)* "No, no... I... I got a job to do."
* *(To Robin)* "Shut it, 'less you wanna join Norm."
* “That’s only if you can survive Eddie. Please, Halle, for the love of god, get him under control.”
* “Eddie’s certainly calmed down. Look at that, he’s even helping our new teammate. I wonder if all he needed was a hot chick to get him under control.”
* “Eddie has a thing for Lukas, I swear. I mean, Louis and especially myself are more responsible for this loss than he is, but we’re squeaky clean in his eyes.”
* *(About Eddie’s behaviour towards Halle)* “Yeah, sorry, mate, Josiah’s already filled that spot.”
* *(When the Red Team returned from the reward)* “Don’t look the devil in the eye, people.”
* *(To the medics)* “Piss off!”
* “Oh, nothing happened. It was just a little pain, then I moved on from there.”
* “You guys can nominate me if you want, it’s not gonna work. He’ll see through that bullshit.”
* “Chef, I suffer from a genetic disease called porphyria. It causes toxic proteins to build up in my blood, and it… sometimes really hurts.”
* *(After Sonny’s elimination)* “I didn't want to reveal my porphyria because it wasn't affecting my performance in the slightest. I'm still one of the team's strongest chefs, with or without the pain.”
* "Now, that is what we call a comeback meal... okay, I'll go put my hand in the deep fryer."
* "Why do we keep going on all these physical rewards? First a helicopter ride that coulda killed me and now a go-kart thing that will definitely kill me."
* "Halle's leading our team in a way we haven't seen so far. Not even from me, hehe."
* "I'm delighted that Lukas has grown so much over the past day. We might finish service on time, how's that for an exciting prospect."
* "Oh my god, it feels amazing to finally kick the asses of them red jackets. I'm gonna be ready to do that again next time."
* “Louis is a huge lifesaver, man. We have a shot now. Let’s do it.”
* “Louis did this for us. He’s to thank for our day out.”
* “I’m very worried about Eddie’s reclusive behaviour. If last night’s communication breakdown is something to go off, we’re in trouble.”
* “It’s very clear that Robin and Lukas aren’t getting on very well. It shows in their cooking, and that makes me worried.”
* “Halle’s doing a lot of the talking. Eddie hasn’t spoken a word since service began.”
* “Oi Eddie, talk to me too.”
* “What? Multitasking is the bread and butter of a line cook. What’s the fucking problem?”
* “Overall, I’m pretty proud of this service, even if there were hiccups.”
* “I’m not comfortable with this decision. Ramsay asked for whom we can do without, and I don’t see Lukas as disposable at all.”
* “Why are we ignoring Eddie? He’s likely the most toxic member of this team.”
* *(To Eddie)* “Oh do you want a fucking list? How about we start with you getting up close and personal with Lukas on Day 1, eh?”
* “We as a team deemed Lukas an overall stronger asset to our team, since we can help him. If Eddie were to get in the shit, it could outright lead to unnecessary conflict.”
* *(After Eddie told him to go fuck himself)* “Point proven.”
* *(When Eddie said he’d done nothing but good things)* “Oh, like bullying Lukas for instance?”
* *(While being dismissed)* “I’m pissed. Robin went home over someone who was disrupting our team dynamic. Unbelievable.”

 Lilly Arnold • Karie Barrett • Josiah Briggs • Halle Castillo • Christa Daniel • Tia Dunn • Nella Faulkner • Sonny Fox • Cory Guzman • Eddie Mann • Chantelle McFarlane • Lukas Porter • Louis Riley • Robin Rogers • Ali Schwatz • **Chas Turner** • Norm Walsh • Scarlet Zimmerman