Jeff LaPoff

Jeff LaPoff was a contestant on Hell's Kitchen Season 1.

Jeff is best remembered for stating that he isn't a quitter, to only quit less than a minute after, being the first contestant to ever quit Hell's Kitchen history.

Hell's Kitchen
Jeff came into the competition extremely inexperienced, as the competition was his first time cooking on the line. He proved to be consistently terrible during services as well as constantly giving excuses for his numerous mistakes throughout the competition. During the first two weeks, he got extremely lucky, as he and Jimmy Casey both barley escaped nomination by Elsie Ramos during week 1 as she put Jeffery Dewberry along with Carolann Valentino up for elimination instead of the two, and just barley escaped being eliminated during week 2 over Jeffery Dewberry. However, during week 3, the pressure got to Jeff as he had yet another bad performance, and quit the competition in the middle of service, being the first in the show's history to ever do so. His quit became infamous due to Jeff stating that he is not a quitter, only to quit a minute later after calling the host Gordon Ramsay an asshole. This forbade him from coming back to the finale to help finalists Michael Wray or Ralph Pagano win the competition and his spot went to Dewberry instead.

Post Hell's Kitchen

 * Jeff eventually retired being a chef and became an Allstate agent.

Trivia

 * Jeff is the first person to quit Hell's Kitchen.
 * Jeff is the first person to place 10th.
 * Jeff and Wendy Liu are the first pair of contestants to leave the competition on the same episode.
 * However, Wendy was actually eliminated and Jeff quit the competition.
 * During the credits of his elimination episode, it was stated that Jeff actually quit due to an injury.
 * Jeff is currently the only contestant to suffer from ephrolithiasis (better known as Kidney Stones).