For the second time this year, a reality show personality has helped a person having a medical crisis. Last night at the Academy of Magical Arts Awards (what?), Survivor host Jeff Probst caught and helped a camera operator who had a seizure while filming him. “She fell into my arms, basically. She had a seizure …
Fabio Viviani won $10,000 thanks to voting viewers, who selected him as their favorite Top Chef 5 contestant. That was announced at the end of an extremely long reunion that made The Bachelor 13‘s second reunion seem like a Michael Bay movie. All of the content must have gotten lost in host Andy Cohen’s chest …
The conclusion of Top Chef 5 helped make this season of the Bravo competition the highest-rated one yet, even if the winner was lackluster. On Wednesday, 3.74 million viewers watched, a slight increase from the 3.508 million who watched last June’s season four finale, and making the finale “the most watched cable telecast of the …
Top Chef‘s fifth season is over, and Stefan Richter did not win the $100,000 prize. That seems to be the headline, because Stefan was ridiculously strong all season and seemed like the inevitable winner. Based upon the season’s arc–Stefan’s consistency, Carla’s ascension–the actual winner, Hosea Rosenberg, is kind of confusing, at best. Hosea wasn’t weak, …
For its penultimate episode, Top Chef 5 threw the final four a curve ball by allowing one of the three previously eliminated chefs–Jamie Lauren, Leah Cohen, and Jeff McInnis–to re-enter the competition by competing in a quickfire challenge. Fabio said it best: “These guys got kicked out, all of them. Now, they’re going to be …
Top Chef 5‘s judges really had their heads rammed far up their crock pots last night, sending home Jamie Lauren and keeping Leah Cohen. Leah is the chef who quit midway through the quickfire, and is also the chef who maybe kind of made out with another chef, even though they’re both in relationships, and …
Part of CBS Sunday Morning’s food-themed episode Sunday featured a profile of Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio that explored his career and philosophy about food–and actually ends with the famously cranky judge actually smiling and laughing. Perhaps more surprisingly, it includes photographs and video from the days when he had hair. The profile introduces us …