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Sideshow: Philly chef is winner on 'Hell's Kitchen'

Flying knives and invective? One of the hardest parts of Christina Wilson's experience on the Fox series Hell's Kitchen was the long year of keeping quiet about the outcome. Monday night, she was named the winner of Season 10 of the Gordon Ramsay cooking drama, and she starts Wednesday on her $250,000 contract as chef at Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas.

Flying knives and invective? One of the hardest parts of

Christina Wilson

's experience on the Fox series

Hell's Kitchen

was the long year of keeping quiet about the outcome. Monday night, she was named the winner of Season 10 of the

Gordon Ramsay

cooking drama, and she starts Wednesday on her $250,000 contract as chef at Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas.

Suspicions were heightened after her return from taping, when she quit her chef de cuisine job at Mercato, a BYOB on Spruce Street.

Wilson, 33, says she will train 14 to 15 hours a day in Ramsay's kitchen at the Paris. After two weeks, "I go home, grab my cat, and come back to work," she said.

- Michael Klein

Could you call it tat for tat?

Barbadian songbird

Rihanna

showed off her sub-mammary

Isis

tattoo on Instagram recently. Now,

Chris Brown

, her much-inked former bf and abuser, has his own big new tat, on his neck. And, well, it looks a lot like her. And it's all marked up. Defenders call it decorative, artistic. Others say the woman looks beat up. Brown claims it's a Day of the Dead skull. It sure is not of Brown's current skweezie,

Karreuche Tran

; she's on his arm. Hmm.

Leno downsizes his salary

The Wall Street Journal reports that last month, NBC talk-show captain

Jay Leno

took a 50 percent whack in pay, from about $30 million to only a paltry $15 mils. Poor guy! Why? To prevent further layoffs after network suits decreed a 20 percent cut in the $100 million

Tonight

show budget and eliminated 20 jobs. The show now has a staff of 200.

Sniggles and squiggles

Then there's NBC's

Today

. At 8:48 a.m., the moment of observation for 9/11, ABC and CBS covered the ceremonies. Meantime, doobydoobydoo, on

Today

, the incredibly indispensable

Kris Jenner

, mom of the

Kardashian

klan, was discussing her breast augmentation. Folks are mad. . . .

Anna Paquin

, 39, and

Stephen Moyer

, 42, are proud parents of twins. The

True Blood

stars, married since 2010, don't specify the place, time, or gender of the twofers. . . .

Suri Cruise

started first grade Tuesday, accompanied by mom

Katie Holmes

to private Avenues School in N.Y.C. It's Suri's first day at any school: Up to now, she's been home-schooled by parents

Tom Cruise

and Holmes, soon to divorce. . . .

Britney Spears

and former bodyguard

Fernando Flores

agreed to end their two-year lawsuit, in which he alleged genital flashing and abusive parenting on her part. . . . Security-tech firm McAfee says

Emma Watson

is the most dangerous celeb to search for online. Stick her in your search field, if she fits, and you have a 1-in-8 chance of landing on a mal-site. Other risky searches, McAfee says, include

Jessica Biel

,

Eva Mendes

,

Selena Gomez

and

Halle Berry

. Nineteen of the 20 most dangerous names were ladies, which shows you who uses the Web and what for. The only male? Yes, you guessed it:

Jimmy Kimmel

.