Jeffery Dewberry

Jeffery Dewberry was a contestant on Hell's Kitchen Season 1.

Dewberry is best remembered for his personality, and for almost walking out during service, as well as being the first male to ever be eliminated from the show's history.

Hell's Kitchen
Dewberry came into the season being one of the nicer contestants of the season. However, in the kitchen he didn't do so well. When his team lost the first service, Elsie Ramos told him that he wasn't going anywhere, giving him the impression that he wasn't going to be nominated. Despite this, he was nominated against Carolann Valentino. Dewberry managed to survive and get Carolann eliminated. Dewberry stated that if he ever got the opportunity, he would get payback at Elsie for nominating him. However, he was never able to catch up with the rest of his team and was eliminated the very next week when he was nominated against Jeff LaPoff by Chris North due to him walking out on the team during the middle of the second service and also due to the fact that he was the weakest member of the team, officially placed 11th. He later came back for the final service to help Ralph Pagano due to Jeff LaPoff quitting the game.

Season 1
"Well, what happened happened, I mean I can’t say that I didn’t deserve it. I kinda felt like I was making a comeback, but I was not justified in walking out on my team."

Post Hell's Kitchen

 * After his appearance on the show, Dewberry created his own YouTube channel, featuring vegan recipes, as well as becoming the chef/manager of the Flying Biscuit Cafe in Atlanta.

Trivia

 * Dewberry is the first person to ever survive nomination.
 * Dewberry is the first person to ever be nominated twice in a row.
 * Dewberry is the first male to ever be eliminated.
 * Dewberry and Jessica Cabo are the first LGBT+ contestants to compete on Hell's Kitchen.
 * Dewverry is the first contestant to go by his surname rather than his first name.
 * This is due to his first name being too similar to Jeff LaPoff's.