The new season of Top Chef is ready to kick off – in Vegas! Check out the new Top Chef contestants and read more here!
The new season of Top Chef starts next week and we have some sneak peek details here, including info on the new cast!
Top Chef: Las Vegas starts on August 26, and is it is set to be a pretty impressive season. First of all they are moving to Vegas! They also have a huge celebrity line up including, Natalie Portman, Penn & Teller, Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Daniel Boulud, Tyler Florence, Laurent Tourondel, and Nigella Lawson.
Padma Lakshmi returns to host, as does head judge Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, and Toby Young.
This season there are 17 contestants competing for the title of Top Chef, $100,000 from Glad, $100,000 of merchandise from Macy’s, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, and a showcase at the Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colo.
Here is a bit of info on the cast:
• Ash Fulk, 29; hometown: Pleasant Hill, Calif.
• Ashley Merriman, 32; hometown: Center Sandwich, N.H.
• Bryan Voltaggio, 33; hometown: Frederick, Md.
• Eli Kirshtein, 25; hometown: Atlanta
• Eve Aronoff, 40; hometown: Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Hector Santiago, 41; hometown: San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Jennifer Carroll, 33; hometown: Philadelphia
• Jennifer Zavala, 31; hometown: Cromwell, Conn.
• Jesse Sandlin, 30; hometown: Baltimore
• Kevin Gillespie, 26; hometown: Atlanta
• Laurine Wickett, 38; hometown: Rochester, N.Y.
• Mattin Noblia, 29; hometown: Biarritz, France
• Michael Isabella, 34; hometown: Little Ferry, N.J.
• Michael Voltaggio, 30; hometown: Frederick, Md.
• Preeti Mistry, 33; hometown: San Francisco
• Robin Leventhal, 43; hometown: Sun Valley, Idaho
• Ron Duprat, 40; hometown: Mare Rouge, Haiti
In other Top Chef news, Rick Bayless took the crown in the Top Chef: Masters finale.
Top Chef Las Vegas airs Wednesday August 26, 2009. Check out a video below!
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