Every year we get a Reunion show from Top Chef, sometimes it comes during that break, when the finaly four are named and before they arrive at the location for the final cook-off. This year, we get the Reunion after all was said and done.
Everyone was there except Richard, who had a perfectly good excuse not to be there, his wife was about to give birth, so that right there tells you this was taped about a month ago, but Richard was able to join us via satelite and Top Chef even gave him a baby gift, a little Top Chef Oneies. Richard also mentioned that he opend his own resturant, I think he said Home was the name, so I think all is going well for Richard.
Antonia mentioned, if I remember right, that she opened a place during the break between the last cut in Chicago and Puerto Rico, so I would say she is doing fine.
Stephanie, not only was the first woman top chef, but she also was the first to be top chef and fan favorite! She joked that she was taking everyone to dinner afterwards. She is in the process of opening a place in Chicago, so I would say she is doing good.
Dale, you all know i loved him all along, but he was calm and cool and I think we saw more of the real Dale than the mad Dale on the show. I hope he is doing well, I didn’t hear anything about him, but then again I was not as in touch with the reunion show as the show itself. They also addressed Dale’s elimination and the fact that Tom was not there, and he said based only on what he saw, and he only saw what we saw when it aired, he thought Lisa should have went home, but Dale stepped up and said he would always take responsiblity for his mistakes, and if he messed up he should go home, he never complained about it or said he only had one mistake and Lisa had two, I am telling you if I hadn’t liked Dale before I defintely did after hearing him tonight. He was first class.
Zoe and Jennifer were there, sitting beside each other, but when Andy Cohen asked about the internet rumors that they are no more, Jennifer said they had their bumps and Zoe said we don’t comment on our personal lives, so in other words, the rumors are true, they are no longer a couple but they are not about to anoounce it in public on tv. Oh well, another relationship bites the dust after appearing on “reality tv”, what else is new.
Andrew was recognized this year with the most famous line of the season, you all might remember the line “I have a culinary boner” well, Bravo has made it into a t-shirt, yep they really are good at capalizing on those kinds of things.
The language was brought up, and they all said they didn’t realize that they were saying it that much, although the clips they showed were not as bad as it was at times, and someone mentioned it wasn’t really all when they were cooking, it was more in the interviews, and that they were venting to the stress, but Tom reminded them that they weren’t private confessions, they were interviews and that they needed to remember whenever they did interviews, whether there or with a real reporter they were representing the whole world of chefs and is that how they want to be seen, and it really seemed to shock a couple of people that those “private” ventings were seen as interviews. I think they forgot that the whole world would be listening to them.
Overall it was a decent show, as far a s reunions go. Next week starts a new season of Shear Genius, then come July we get Project runway back, and I can’t wait!!!
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