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Top Chef 2

  • Behind the scenes of Knife Fight

  • Hell’s Kitchen winner gets “misleading” prize (again), but will work under Top Chef’s Cliff

  • Top Chef’s Marcel Vigneron developing a reality show for SyFy

  • Marcel Vigneron arrested for DUI

  • Two women arrested for attack on Top Chef’s Josie after she filed a complaint about police

  • Homeless man arrested in attack on Top Chef 2’s Josie

  • Top Chef 2’s Josie beaten in anti-gay attack

  • Ilan and his mother respond to criticism and blame the editing of Top Chef 2

  • Bravo VP: “we did not alter the integrity of what happened” with Marcel hazing; no reunion due to viewer reaction

  • Top Chef finale beats ABC; Top Design debut sets Bravo record

  • Ilan Hall wins Top Chef 2, ending a disappointing season

  • Top Chef 2’s finale airs tonight; series has 32 percent more viewers than Project Runway 2

  • Food & Wine releases profiles of both Ilan and Marcel, says they were written in advance

  • Top Chef 2 winner revealed when Food & Wine interview posted early

  • Report: Top Chef 2’s Ilan Hall quit his job; Sam says editors “showed me attacking [Marcel] without cause”

  • Marcel injured, scarred after a Top Chef viewer hit him in the face with a bottle

  • Editing of Marcel’s head-shaving attempt may have understated Elia’s role

  • Producers vetoed Tom Colicchio’s decision to send all the chefs home and let Marcel win

  • Chefs not “allowed to say disparaging things about Padma”; new Bravo aftershow debuts after Top Chef

  • Bravo VP says comments about Padma Lakshmi’s wardrobe may be anti-semitic

  • Project Runway 3 ends tonight and Top Chef 2 begins

  • New Top Chef host turned down the job for season one

  • Bravo announces Top Chef 2 cast

  • Top Chef moves to LA, returns in October, and will be hosted by Padma Lakshmi

  • Bravo VP confirms Katie Lee Joel is leaving Top Chef, says it’s to “pursue other opportunities”

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