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Top Chef’s Morgan arrested, indicted for child pornography

Top Chef Just Desserts season one cast member Morgan Wilson was indicted earlier this month on three second-degree felony counts related to possession of child pornography, which he was arrested for last year. The disturbing details, according to The Plano Star-Courier’s report (via B-Side Blog): “Morgan Wilson, 38, was indicted Oct. 6 on three, second-degree …

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Yigit’s win, asshole’s loss keeps Top Chef Just Desserts sweet

Top Chef Just Desserts ended its first season with a great ending: Yigit Pura won the $100,000 prize, beating both Danielle Keene and Morgan Wilson, the show’s resident asshole. Morgan ended the series on another low note, with both violent (“I’d knock his skull right off”) and homophobic (“annoying little fairy,” “bitch,” “a little girl”) …

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Top Chef Just Desserts secrets: “freak-out” about recipes, Seth’s meltdown, more

Top Chef Just Desserts ends its first season tonight. While Top Chef Masters developed its own personality, this seemed more like a particularly great season of Top Chef with Gail Simmons subbing for Padma Lakshmi, and completely insane contestants whose talent was matched by their strong personalities and wacky behavior, from uncomfortably mean Morgan to …

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Seth’s meltdown leads producers to break the fourth wall on insane Top Chef Just Desserts

Top Chef Just Desserts broke the fourth wall last night to show us Seth Caro’s meltdown, which led producers to remove him from the competition. Producers brought back Heather, who contemplated quitting, although later, another chef, Malika Ameen, quit. Yes, the chefs on this show are all a big mess, and it’s awesome. The editing …

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Top Chef Seth’s uncomfortable breakdown: “The Red Hots are for my mommy”

Two episodes in to its debut season, the Gail Simmons-hosted spin-off Top Chef: Just Desserts had its moment: A multi-part psychological breakdown of a contestant, Seth Caro. His first breakdown came during the quickfire round, when Seth couldn’t get his sorbet frozen in time. He started crying and collapsed, basically, causing guest judge and Top …

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Bravo giving away free desserts tomorrow to promote Top Chef Just Desserts’ debut

Tomorrow night, after the finale of Top Chef DC, Bravo kicks off the competition’s second spin-off: Top Chef Just Desserts, which is hosted by a Padma-free Gail Simmons. To promote its debut, Bravo is giving away desserts tomorrow. To get free dessert, you can make reservations at one of 800+ restaurants on Opentable and eat …

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