The latest host of “Top Chef” is about to provide the warmth.
Bravo unveiled year 10 winner Kristen Kish will switch Padma Lakshmi as the new host of the cooking opposition for year 21. But whilst she’s returning to the display in a new situation, Kish is joined by some longtime veterans: head decide Tom Colicchio and perennial judge Gail Simmons.
“Prime Chef is in which I commenced my journey—first as a competing chef, then a guest choose and now as host I have the honor of assisting to proceed to build this brand,” Kish reported in a press release July 11. “I’m thrilled to sit together with Gail and Tom as we get to know new outstanding chefs and see what they prepare dinner up. It feels like coming residence.”
Ryan Flynn, Senior Vice President of Present-day Output, NBCUniversal Tv and Streaming launched his personal statement, composing, “Kristen Kish signifies anything that would make Leading Chef amazingly particular.”
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Noting the 39-year-old’s experience, Flynn included, “She’s an acclaimed chef and her working experience as a cheftestant, winner and choose, alongside her culinary curiosity, will make Kristen the best host for the future chapter of Top Chef as we consider on a new region of the nation we haven’t explored.”
And as “Top rated Chef” enthusiasts will bear in mind, Kish has no shortage of kitchen reliability, having attended Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago. And in advance of her tenure on the cooking competition in 2012, she served as Chef de Delicacies at a Relais & Chateaux assets. In the decades since her 1st stint on the Bravo collection, she’s released her initial cookbook, “Kristen Kish Cooking: Recipes and Tactics” as well as opened her 1st restaurant, Arlo Grey in Austin, Texas.
The news of Kish’s job arrives a month immediately after Lakshmi declared she was leaving “Major Chef” immediately after 20 seasons and 17 decades.
“Just after significantly soul exploring, I have built the tough determination to go away Top rated Chef,” she wrote in a June 2 assertion posted to her social media webpages. “Owning finished a superb 20th season as host and exec producer, I am very very pleased to have been a part of building this kind of a productive present and of the effect it has had in the worlds of tv and food.”
