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How ‘Top Chef’ Navigated Its Biggest Change in 21 Seasons
KNIVES OUTTom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, and new host Kristen Kish talk with Obsessed about how the series dealt with the departure of Padma Lakshmi, a new start, and heading to the Midwest.
A New ‘Top Chef’ Is Here to Make Everything in Life Better
KNIVES OUTThe best reality competition on TV enters a new era with a new host, and is still as good as it’s ever been.
The 23 Best TV Shows of 2023
YEAR IN REVIEWFrom an assassin-turned-actor facing his comeuppance and two Housewives’ sojourn at Crappie Lake, our Obsessed critics look back at their favorite shows of the year.
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Padma Lakshmi’s ‘Top Chef’ Legacy Is One for the Ages
END OF AN ERAEverything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture.
‘Top Chef’ Is ‘Always Changing’—But Never Like This
END OF AN ERAAs “Top Chef” wraps up its biggest season yet, host Padma Lakshmi is leaving. What does the future hold for TV’s most elite cooking competition? And who could ever replace her?
What Padma Lakshmi Learned About Herself on ‘Top Chef’
EATING YOUR FEELINGSNot long before announcing her departure from the hit cooking show, Lakshmi—who also hosts a road-trip food series on Hulu—talked about the hard truths the industry taught her.
Padma Lakshmi Shocks ‘Top Chef’ Fans by Announcing Exit
PACK YOUR KNIVESThe Bravo host announced her decision ahead of the show’s 20th season finale.
Why Kristen Kish Turned Down ‘Top Chef: World All-Stars’
TRAVELING ONThe host of NatGeo’s “Restaurants at the End of the World” opens up about her reluctant journey from the kitchen to TV and why she said no to “Top Chef: World All-Stars.”
‘Top Chef’ Winner Swears He’s More Than a ‘Food Snob’
‘IN IT TO WIN IT’The reigning “Top Chef” winner talks about what made him want to return for the current “World All-Stars” season and the reputation that precedes him in the kitchen.
Tom Colicchio on Those Allegations Against ‘Top Chef’ Winner
OPENING UPThe cooking contest’s top judge updates us on the struggling restaurant industry, breaks his silence on the controversy surrounding last year’s winner, and previews Season 19.