Donna Edwards

**Donna Edwards** was a contestant on Season 7 of Hell's Kitchen Roleplay. She ranked in 4th place.

## Personality

Donna went into Hell's Kitchen with confidence and resilience. Enduring one of the worst teams in RP history, Donna managed to stick out from the rest of them because of her superior cooking talent in services, and would become the de-facto leader of the red team alongside Heather, after Mai's downwards spiral. Despite this, she would consistently have small errors that would add up over time, mostly thanks to communication problems. Moreover, her challenges often left a lot to be desired, due to her inability to stop trying to create new ideas. She made easy friends with Heather and Gina, the two relatively calm chefs of her team, while also starting out friendly with Georgie and Richard, although she quickly turned on them after their downward spirals.

Donna herself was very calm and collected most of the time, but would fall to her increasingly short temper at the competition progressed, and would notably blow up after the Wedding Challenge, an attitude problem that consisted nearly the entire episode. She would also beat herself up over mistakes that she made that led to other chefs making mistakes, such as nominating herself over Mai despite the two feuding, and taking complete responsibility over Richard's poor meat station performance during the later stages of service nine.

She would notably have feuds with not only Joanna, whom nobody liked, and Harper, who, while also being intensely disliked by her team, managed to argue with Donna during every episode, and became the focal feud of the beginning of the season. Much like her friendships with Georgie and Richard, Donna would find herself head-to-head with the original leader of the red team, Mai, after the latter's increasingly nasty attitude and declining performances, which climaxed at her elimination, when Mai forged a photo between her and Donna's husband. Outside of the red team, Donna would become close with DJ, especially after learning about his heart condition, while despising Rohan for his scheming tactics as well as noticing him throwing his teammates under the bus.

## Season 7

### Episode 1

When the chefs arrived at Hell's Kitchen, Donna was noticeably more quiet compared to the other chefs and kept to herself.

During the Signature Dish Challenge, she made a classic American Cheeseburger with bed of Habanero sauce on the patty, and while the burger was cooked nicely, the presentation was said to be off and the spice was a bit too much, scoring a 3 out of 5. She would later go on to admit that her risk didn't pay off, but that it was only motivation to do better. The red team would go on to lose the challenge, and would be punished by being forced to clean and organize the Museum for the public re-opening.

During prep, she would take notice of Heather's poor prepping job of the rice, and informed her that it would lead to being overcooked. She was also told by Harper that she was doing a good job at prep. Despite agreeing on doing fish's garnish and that Paula would do meat's garnish, Joanna said the idea was terrible as there might be an influx of sides for one set of protein, during which Donna told her that she and Paula had it under control. After Ramsay had asked Joanna what the menu was, she would slowly hide her face in embarrassment at Joanna's lack of knowledge, and would later argue that Joanna shouldn't be giving her advice on her own station if she didn't even know the menu.

During service, Donna and Paula were on the garnish station. She would first be seen being confused on the fact that Foie Gras was on the meat station despite being an appetizer, before realizing that Foie Gras was in fact an appetizer done on the meat station. She would later exclaim how Joanna could be screwing up when service just began, although confirming that she wouldn't mind losing that night if it meant Joanna went home. Later, she began whispering to Paula, asking about the state of disarray that the kitchen was in, and would later exclaim that she felt that Paula was too busy cozying up to people during service. The last time she was seen before starting to cook was her attempting to wake Paula up as entrees would soon be starting, while being in utter disbelief at Joanna's overcooked Foie Gras, before stating that she felt that Harper was as dumb as blondes come.

During entrees, she would communicate well over the garnish times for the Halibut, and although her garnish was accepted, it would later go to waste as all of Harper's meat items were rejected. The would later happen once more. In the midst of this, she was seen mistakenly telling Paula that the French Fries should've been fired a minute earlier than needed. Donna would later go on to admit that even though she was cooking perfection, that she was also frazzled because of the disorderly chaos going on in the kitchen, before reminding Paula not to try to hop on the meat station just yet. While the second second attempt at the refire would later be accepted, the story would later go on to repeat for a second time, as not only were Harper's meat entrees raw, but Evelyn's sea bass would also be raw. After Evelyn and Harper yet again screwed the kitchen with their raw bass and overcooked wellingtons respectively, Donna was kicked out of the kitchen along with the rest of the red team despite her good performance.

Back in the dorms, she would go on to say that Harper and Evelyn should be the two nominees, due to their issues on meat and fish respectively, while also attempting to remind a non-lucid Paula that a nomination was not a good thing. She would also be seen defending Joanna as the latter bounced back that night from her mistakes and that she was leading, which was something that she never saw from Harper. Because of this comment, Harper and Donna would get into a heated argument over whether or not Harper would even make it past that night to prove that she could lead.

At post-mortem, both teams were named joint losers, while Mai was named the "Best of the Worst" on the red team, meaning that she would be deciding the nominees. Donna would then ask who she was deciding between for nomination, and and learned from Mai that the latter was clear cut on nominating Evelyn, although she was torn between Joanna and Harper. After Harper stated that she understood why she was being considered for nomination, but that she was also passionate, Donna reminded her that it was not time to learn how to throw a fast ball in the big leagues.

At elimination, Donna was not nominated, and affirmed her opinion that Harper should've left that night to the latter after she survived over Brody. before hoping that whatever Rohan and Harper were doing at the hot tub, that it was PG enough for TV.

### Episode 2

Donna began the episode off by discussing what the next challenge would be with Harper and Rohan, saying that believed it would be a prepping challenge for something along the lines of lobster construction.

Before the challenge, Ramsay asked the contestants to name international cuisines around the world, to which Donna named Mexican cuisine for their vibrant spices and rich proteins. When Ramsay was announcing the theme, Donna hoped that it wasn't Indian cuisine, to which she was pleasantly surprised by the challenge's theme; Japanese Cuisine, and that it would be for the fabled punishment pass.

For the Japanese Cuisine Challenge, Donna would go all in on the ingredients for Yum-Yum sauce, which worried her teammates as she would go on to grab a lot of ingredients. After she and the rest of the chefs plated up their dishes, the team had to decide on the two best and the two worst, to which Harper was the spokesperson for the red team. Despite their personal dislike for each other, Harper would go on to select Donna's dish as one of the top two alongside Gina's, to which Donna was elated by.

During judging, Donna presented her pan seared, rice encrusted Amru fish dish, which was circled by vegetables and California rolls, all of which was glazed in hand-made Yum-Yum sauce. Ramsay praised the dish as delicious, with particular praise going towards the Yum-Yum sauce, the cook of the fish, and the seasoning. While Ramsay felt that the vegetables could've done with a little more cooking, he felt that the dish was overall perfect. She would end up losing to Rohan's dish, but afterwards shook hands with him.

The red team would go on to lose the challenge because of Joanna's dish being the worst overall, and would be punished by being forced to prep the rice for both kitchens for service. After a bit of prep, Sous Chef Talia presented the red team with half unfrozen McDonald's cheeseburgers, to which Donna delightfully ate, and agreed with Mai on the need for Dr. Pepper. During said punishment, Donna reminded Joanna to bounce back and kick ass, and apologized to Georgie for overlooking her.

During service, Donna and Heather were on the fish station. Heather and Donna agreed to do lobster and scallops respectively, and communicated with Harper on times so that she herself could start scallops. Donna would be seen getting her scallops accepted, but this would prove to be fruitless as Harper and Evelyn's Risotto and Foie Gras respectively were rejected. Donna refired her scallops but had to wait a minute for a delay on Heather's part, but later had to take over the lobster due to Heather being pulled into the pantry alongside Joanna, to which both the lobster and scallops were accepted. She would later have yet another two servings of scallops accepted only to be rejected because of Joanna's burnt flatbreads After taking over fish due to Heather's futile attempt to help Joanna on flatbreads, her scallops and lobster were once more accepted but had to be rejected because of Harper and Joanna's rejected risotto and flatbreads, respectively. After a complete takeover of the fish station because of Heather taking over apps, everything was finally accepted due to her and Heather's work.

On entrees, she wasn't seen much because of Heather's role of cooking the sea bass, and before any other fish entrees could start, the collective of Georgie, Mai, and Evelyn's combined mistakes had the team kicked out.

Back in the dorms, after a swearing fit, she would go on to state that neither Mai nor Georgie should go up that night, and once again decided on Joanna and Harper for elimination, while telling Evelyn that she believed that the latter dodged a bullet.

During post-mortem, Ramsay named the team the losers that night, and asked for three nominees. Donna quickly agreed to the consensus of Joanna, Harper, and Evelyn, before getting into a screaming match with Joanna over the latter's nomination, before ending it off saying that she hoped Ramsay sent her home.

During elimination, Donna would be asked to present the nominees, to which she gave the consensus of Harper, Joanna, and Evelyn. When asked who should leave that night, Donna said that both Joanna and Harper should leave that night, and was stunned at Mai saying that Evelyn should leave.

After Evelyn's elimination, Donna got into arguments with both Mai and Joanna. She told Mai that if she tried protecting the weak links again that they'd have problems, and expressed disappointment at Joanna for not bouncing back. She would later be seen talking with Heather and Georgie in the bedroom, teasing Georgie over her crushed in Hell's Kitchen, while also stating that they needed the nice guys of the team, Rohan and Tommy over on their side.