Kristen Kish can be a professional chef but now she feels like a professional host Top chef Season 22.
“Probably just internally (I was) more confident and sure of myself,” said the 41 -year -old Kish, said exclusively US Weekly On Wednesday, March 12, for her sophomore season as hosting the Bravo cooking series. “I think the transition from the first time to the second time will have confidence in the jump and I certainly felt it.”
Kish noted that she was excited to immerse herself again in the “heart and soul” of the show, which is the cooks and their “telling” through the food. “It also really studies me every time I do it, the first time until our last finale,” she told USAS “We just sit back and you are like,” Oh God, we just have to experience it. “
Before taking on his hosting role, Kish famous races on season 10 of Top chef In 2012, it became the second winner in the history of the show. One month after the long host Padma Lakshmi announce your exit From the series after 17 years, Kish was declared its replacement in July 2023. Kish officially made it Top chef Hosting debut when season 21 was premiered last March.
Kristen Kish knows what it is like to win the top chef, but taking hosts a long-standing racing show in Bravo was almost more frightening. In a new interview with Midwest Living, 40-year-old Kish shared how he feels to replace the Emmy Host Padma Lakshmi host, who decided to leave the top chef in 2023 after season 20. (…)
The last season of the show – which premiered on Thursday, March 13 – will see Kish and fellow judges Tom Colicio and Gail Simmons Travel to Canada to watch 15 chefs compete in a culinary battle with high bets.
“Everything is new. The landscape is different. The challenges are different. The food they cook is different, ”kish irritates what’s ahead. “And I think it’s the beauty of Top chef Well, they were in many places, they introduced so many chefs around the world, and every food plate is different and every place and challenge is adapted to this place. It’s really amazing. “
Kristen Kish
David Moir/BravoAfter being in the show since its premiere in 2006, Colicchio, 62 -year -old, told USA He “giggles” in the implementation of the almost 20-year mileage of the show. “It was just a great running,” he added.
The colleague of the judge Simmons, 48, said she was “really excited” to bring the show to her homeland. “I just think it feels different from every season we have ever done so far,” she added. “Our kitchen – and I try not to be prejudiced – but Top chef The kitchen was so beautiful this season. “
Although he participated in a cooking show, Top chef The judges said USA That their television series is not other programs in the genre. “The only cooking race I look is A great British baking Because it’s sweet and they are homemade bakers, “Kish said, while Simmons noted that he prefers to watch” traveling deposits “in his spare time.
Colicchio, in turn, said: “I have been cooking for more than 40 years and I do Top chef For almost 20 years. And the last thing I want to do when I don’t do any of them is watching food TV. Everything but food television. “
Top Chef judges Kristen Kish, Gail Simmons and Tom Colicio
US WeeklyTop chef Season 22 premieres on Bravo Thursday, March 13, from 9:00 pm.
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