There is one story the media never gets tired of, but it has become extraordinarily tiring: Padma Lakshmi’s weight gain during production of Top Chef. Full disclosure and confession: I wrote such a story more than five years ago, when the Los Angeles Times reported on that she gained 12 to 15 pounds each season …
Top Chef 11
Top Chef New Orleans debuted Wednesday, and The Times-Picayune’s Dave Walker went behind the scenes during the entire first episode, and the story is a must-read. Perhaps the most surprising part is that the judges re-shoot their feedback to the chefs multiple times, including when contestants aren’t even in the room. Radar’s list of The …
Top Chef‘s 11th season won’t debut until October, but a six-episode series online starting today will feature Padma selecting a New Orleans-based contestant for the New Orleans-set season. Padma’s Picks, which is viewable only on BravoTV.com and on its completely awful video player, will follow Padma as five more well-known local chefs offer Padma two …
Randy Jackson, Gordon Ramsay, Tom Bergeron, Phil Keoghan, Heidi Klum, and Padma Lakshmi had a completely fascinating hour-long discussion about reality TV with The Hollywood Reporter. The full video is below, but highlights include Top Chef‘s host calling its product placement “shit” and The Amazing Race‘s host dissing the family season. Highlights from their conversation: …
News that Top Chef received $200,000 from the oil spill fund the Deepwater Horizon disaster has prompted controversy and a debate of sorts between Bravo VP Andy Cohen, chef Anthony Bourdain, and TV auteur David Simon. All of this was significant enough to prompt Bravo to respond last night, defending its actions by posting a …
It’s no longer a secret that cities and/or states pay to host a season of Top Chef. The show is headed to New Orleans for its 11th season, which has been known for about a month now, but was only confirmed by Bravo on Friday. Today, there’s news of how much money this cost: $375,000, …
The 11th season of Bravo’s competition Top Chef appears to be headed to New Orleans, based on a job posting for crew members. The city previously hosted the finale of the show’s fifth season. Last Friday, a job posting on Facebook said the show would be filmed there from May to July, but then was …