Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle says he was forced to participate in the season three all-star cook-off by producers, who threatened to take legal action against him if he refused. Harold tells the New York Post that he “didn’t want to do it” because he was about to open his restaurant. “There were a million… continue reading
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Tom Colicchio: Harold’s Top Chef win “was a lot closer than people thought”
Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio says winner Harold Dieterle’s victory “was a lot closer than people thought just watching the program.” He tells the Denver Post that “Harold kind of fell apart on some of the challenges …It came down to who would be the most likely to inspire. If you can’t get your people… continue reading
The first Top Chef is Harold Dieterle
Harold Dieterle won Top Chef, and said he’ll use the $100,000 in part to open a restaurant in New York City this fall. Tiffani Faison served 10 dishes instead of the five required ones, and guest judge Lorraine Bracco called that “ballsy.” But Harold’s food was judged to be safer but more consistent. All four… continue reading
Top Chef concludes tonight
Bravo’s Top Chef concludes tonight at 10 p.m. ET with the second of its two-part finale. Last week, crybaby caterer Dave was eliminated, leaving frequently-annoyed hottie Harold and regretfully bitchy Tiffani to battle it out. One will win “$100,000 in seed money to help encourage their culinary career, be featured in Food & Wine magazine,… continue reading
Top Chef renewed, finale expanded, reunion added
Bravo has found another hit in Top Chef, the Project Runway-like show with a host more robotic than Julie Chen on the days before the Chenbot gets serviced. Thus, Bravo has renewed the competition for a second season, and is expanding the first season, much as they did with Runway. Casting for the second season… continue reading
Project Runway 2 concludes and Top Chef debuts tonight on Bravo
Project Runway 2 concludes tonight at 10 p.m. ET, when either Chloe, Daniel, or Santino will win the competition, perhaps only to turn down the show’s prize just like last season’s winner. As the episode begins, we’ll see how each designer handles the last-minute challenge they were given: to design and construct one more piece… continue reading
Bravo will air Hell’s Kitchen clone; CMT following Kinky Friedman’s campaign
The producers of Project Runway are creating a new talent-based reality show for Bravo. The show, Top Chef, sounds like a carbon copy of FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen. Bravo’s press release says it will be “a new reality competition series set in the pressurized environment of world-class cookery and the restaurant business” that “will feature twelve… continue reading