Ilan and his mother respond to criticism and blame the editing of Top Chef 2
Top Chef 2 winner Ilan Hall is apparently so despised by “presumptuous and cruel” viewers that both he and his mother wrote defenses of his behavior in Newsday yesterday. Ilan’s mother, Rita Hall, works as “a section designer in Newsday’s editorial art department,” according to her byline. She writes that she “didn’t expect was how …