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Padma Lakshmi announced she is leaving Bravo’s Top Chef aft hosting it for the past 17 years successful a Friday, June 2, 2023 station to Instagram. “After overmuch psyche searching, I person made the hard determination to leave Top Chef,” Padma, 52, began. “Having completed a glorious 20th play arsenic big and enforcement producer, I americium highly arrogant to person been portion of gathering specified a palmy amusement and of the interaction it has had successful the worlds of tv and food.”
“After 17 years, galore of the formed and unit are similar household to maine and I volition miss moving alongside them dearly,” she continued earlier announcing that she plans connected dedicating much clip to her series, Taste the Nation, and her different “creative pursuits.” About 5 weeks aft Padma’s shocking announcement, her replacement has been announced: Season 10 Top Chef victor Kristen Kish. Read connected to larn astir the caller Top Chef host, Kristen Kish, below.
It’s authoritative – Kristen Kish has been named big of #TopChef. Get your knives acceptable arsenic Season 21 heads to Wisconsin! 🔪 pic.twitter.com/FST1J2RPQk
— Bravo Top Chef (@BravoTopChef) July 11, 2023
Kristen Called Her ‘Top Chef’ Hosting Gig A ‘Full Circle Moment’
Kristen, 40, was elated to stock the quality of her caller Top Chef hosting job. Once the quality was out, she took to Instagram to explicit her gratitude and excitement. “I americium truthful thrilled to beryllium coming backmost to Top Chef,” she began successful a July 11, 2023 video she shared, which tin beryllium seen above. “To beryllium coming backmost successful this caller mode is caller and exciting. It’s besides acquainted and somewhat feels similar a homecoming and a afloat ellipse infinitesimal for me.”
“I americium astir excited to get to cognize an unthinkable radical of chefs, to beryllium alongside [judges] Tom [Colicchio] and Gail [Simmons], and to beryllium reunited with a batch of guests that are connected and disconnected camera successful the production,” Kristen continued. “I’m astatine a nonaccomplishment for words still, a small bit, but I committedness I’ll find those travel Season 21 arsenic we are each introduced to an unthinkable caller clump of chefs.”
Padma approves of her replacement, arsenic she congratulated Kristen connected her caller gig the time the quality came out. “I’m truthful arrogant of you @KristenLKish and americium implicit the satellite that you’ll beryllium taking implicit for maine connected @BravoTopChef !!!” she tweeted with a photograph of the brace posing. “I’ll beryllium rooting for you and our full unit adjacent season. Congratulations!!!”
Kristen Is Adopted
Kristen was calved successful South Korea successful 1983 but was adopted by her family, who resides successful Michigan, erstwhile she was 4 months old, per Us Weekly. Shortly earlier announcing her caller role, Kristen flew backmost to her location authorities to walk immoderate clip with her family, which consists of her mom, her dad, and her brother. Check retired their household get-together above!
Kristen Has Been Married Since 2021
Kristen walked down the aisle with her fiancée Bianca Dusic connected April 18, 2021. “Threw connected immoderate bully apparel (my favourite blazer), headed to our backyard with our ain written vows successful hand, had our household with america (virtually), got each sappy, and WE DID THE DAMN THING,” the personage cook announced successful a since-deleted Instagram station pursuing their nuptials, per TODAY.
Bianca is from Australia, and unfortunately, her household was incapable to permission the state owed to coronavirus question restrictions. “We decided that if getting joined was what was astir important past that is what we’ll do, conscionable a spot differently. Our household was with america connected Zoom, 5 p.m. EST connected Sunday the 18th and 7 a.m. Monday greeting successful Melbourne,” Kristen told TODAY at the time. “Ultimately, we had our household (and were) doing what was the astir important to america successful our home. Small and intimate is our style; this was conscionable adjacent smaller (albeit different), yet much cleanable than we could person ever imagined.”
Although Bianca’s Instagram is private, her biography reveals that she is simply a certified hypnotherapist, breathwork and EFT practitioner, a past-life regression therapist, and finally, a holistic wellness coach. Now that’s rather the resume!
Kristen and Bianca announced their engagement successful Sept. 2019. Kristen besides raved astir her woman connected her day conscionable a week earlier they tied the knot. “You volition ever beryllium my crushed to judge successful that psyche hugging benignant of love, the enactment it takes to turn and nurture that, to conscionable idiosyncratic each the way, and to let abstraction for each to beryllium their ain beauteous & ‘work successful progress’ selves,” she penned successful the touching tribute. “I don’t judge successful luck often but however fortunate americium I that you chose me. I emotion you for each of our chapters and the forever, “to beryllium continued” endings. Happy Birthday my emotion @b4bianca”.
Kristen Has A National Geographic Show
Kristen Kish for ‘Restaurants astatine the End of the World’ (Photo: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup for National Geographic/Shutterstock)
Kristen’s National Geographic series, Restaurants astatine the End of the World, debuted successful March 2023. The amusement follows Kristen arsenic she travels astir the globe to larn “from chefs who flooded the formidable challenges required to service memorable meals successful the astir distant outposts connected Earth.”
“I’m happy, consenting and capable to spell into these places and beryllium a sponge, beryllium told what to do,” Kristen told Inside Hook successful April 2023. “We’re cooking food, possibly we’re utilizing ingredients that I’m utilized to, but we’re traveling acold to get to them. I person a batch to larn successful bid to acceptable in. My baseline has ever been this isn’t astir me. My occupation is being a conveyance successful bid to assistance idiosyncratic other archer their story.”
Kristen Has Her Own Line Of Apertifs
Kristen partnered with Asian American Spirits institution Yobo successful 2022 to make a enactment of aperitifs “inspired by an evolving Korean American identity,” per BEVNET.
“I’m thrilled to unveil my enactment of aperitifs inspired by my passionateness for food, the galore journeys of my life, and my Korean American heritage,” Kristen said successful a connection successful Oct. 2022. “A household of 4 aperitifs, each person its ain communicative to archer pulling from circumstantial memories and moments that I cherish. It’s an grant to stock my stories with you.”
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