Scandals That Will Sadly Plague Top Chef Forever
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- There are a lot of reasons why people gravitate toward watching cooking competitions like Top Chef. Some of us like getting ideas that we can turn around and try in our own kitchens, some of us are foodies who appreciate the plating and presentation of high-end dishes, and others just enjoy watching people at the top of their game competing for high stakes and big dollars. Unfortunately, for those cooking show enthusiasts out there, the contestants on Top Chef aren’t always at the top of their game off-camera. In this video, we’ll do a deep dive into the scandals that will sadly plague Top Chef forever.
#TopChef #Bravo #Scandals
Marcel Vigneron is assaulted on the show | 0:00
Mike Isabella is accused of harassment | 1:18
John Besh is edited out | 2:22
Graham Elliot is sued for withholding tips | 3:28
Alex Reznik steals a dish | 4:13
Paul Qui is arrested | 5:10
Top Chef asks Texas to pony up | 6:10
Top Chef Canada's horse meat incident | 7:23
Boston teamsters target Padma Lakshmi | 8:30
Tom Colicchio is sued for wage theft | 9:43
McInnis and Booth scam their own joint | 10:52
Replacing the original host | 12:04
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Who's your favorite Food Network personality?
Ina Gardner the barefoot contessa love her and Jeffrey 🤗✌️
It's between Alton Brown & Robert Irvine
Gordon Ramsay.
@@riac5388 You mean Robert who lied about his resume Irvine?
ANY DRAMA makes good tv
They totally skipped over Heather Terhune and Sarah Grueneberg bullying Beverly. It was criminal what they did to Beverly and they should have been called out on it.
i’m rewatching that season and had to stop because i couldn’t bear to watch that again, what they did to Beverly was appalling
I hated how the reunion other contestants would defend heather. Saying it’s the cooking or leadership bullshit.
I was telling my husband the whole time watching this season. They call beverly meek and weak and she asks questions like a sous chef- no she’s just trying to be civil and let you know what she’s doing and asking your opinions so she’s not taking over the dish during team challenges. I can’t believe how consistently fake Sarah and Heather was on the show.
@@sinaiulliel1700 I can't re-watch that season.
@@kipakimakpkm9615 right? Like that’s how a team player is. You make effort to communicate. Clearly heather was still holding a grudge from last challenge and refused to make as much as bev. Respect to the other chefs saying something. It is crazy Heather received death threats and bad letters if you wanted the reunion. She also refused to apologize saying what she said was truthfully at that time.
The pea puree' scandal was manufactured. On that seasons's reunion show two other chefs said they saw him making his own puree. The producers chose not to show that footage to make the guy look like a thief.
david martignetti t5
@The Anthropologist _Forensic Nice forensic rigour there.
He's a theif and a liar
Yeah that whole situation was ridiculous. Considering the contestant next to him watched him make his own. 🙄
Cliff: assaults dude
Guy: "we're gonna have to ask you to leave."
Cliff: *surprised Pikachu face*
What's the difference between horse meat and any other meat? My Dutch ancestors ate smoked horse meat.
Also, how is being nervous a scandal for the last one?
Hey, how are things with you today?
@@pauljansen8161 creepy much?
@@Mr_Nobody913 Good day to you
It's mostly Americans I bet trying to virtue signal what should and shouldn't be eaten.
The Marcel attack to me was an assault. He could have easily filed criminal complaint that he was assaulted and it was filmed. Nobody has no right to touch another person and what Cliff did to Marcel was considered an assault. It was violent and criminal. If this was a woman yeah we’re talking big time lawsuit.
I agree with Bernie!
I’m so surprised it didn’t escalate to that
@coolboy007666 women have been sexually assaulted on other reality tv shows without cancellation (only banning two people from the show).
This kind of argument really irks me. There is no doubt in my mind that Marcel provoked the incident. He's that kind of guy; difficult to get along with, condescending, and argumentative. He shouldn't be able to hide behind the law when he's a total ass.
+Hugo^: really? So a 220 pound muscle guy was provoked by someone who is maybe 150 pounds. You have issues if you actually believe that. When you violently pin someone down in a headlock trying to shave their head. If you actually believe your statement you’re fucked up.
I thought for sure the first scandal would be from episode one when one of the chefs got kicked off for tasting a sauce with his finger - something for which ALL of the chefs were horrified by. Yet, we’ve watched over a dozen years of additional Top Chef episodes where ALL the chefs touch the food with their bare hands.
Hey, how are things with you today?
No, I think it was for double-dipping a tasting spoon.
He wasn't kicked off of the show just out of Chef Keller's kitchen
I hate Marcel, but no one had the right to put their hands on him.
I totally agree. I didn't care for him but I was shocked when that happened that night.
I liked marcel. Idk why people hated him so much. He did come.off a bit arrogant but he had skill and he's reportedly a nice guy to actually work with.
@@TheBunnygirl20 same. I thought he was young and eager to show what he knew, he didn't deserve that
@@TheBunnygirl20 I agree. I think some of those chefs in Marcel's season were totally mean to him because he was a threat! If you are that good a chef, NO ONE should intimidate you. Holding a fellow contestant in a choke hold is just so childish & grounds for arrest! You are there to cook, not fight. That dude is lucky Marcel never had him arrested! Where is now, in jail? =)
@akadeepsea absolutely.
'the union workers hissed at her'
That made me literally laugh out loud imagining some burly dudes hissing like a cat at people entering the filming area.
All I see is miguel 'hissing' at tiffany in season 1 😆
😂😂
I never forgot that episode with Marcell being relentlessly attacked. It shaded my view of the whole competition from then on out.
Hey, how are things with you today?
The first one; the look of "what do you mean I can't assault someone and stay on the show?"
MTV got lambasted for the same thing.
One season a guy pulled a blanket off of a woman who was only wearing underwear. She laughed and then later claimed she felt like she was raped. They kicked the guy off the show.
Yet earlier that very same season .This woman and one other pulled the blanket off a man passed out drunk so they could take a picture of him. Nothing happened.
Who could forget Marcel and his foams! 😄
And yet when ilan tried to do what marcel did easily. He failed
Loved Marcel! Was a fan. ❤️
Spit
My least favorite still
I went to culinary school with Marcel, he really is so culinarily talented. Even Tom said that the was the best chef on his season.
Good video up until the last point. Anxiety and hyper-empathy isn't a scandal. Don't contribute to the stigma.
Preach!
Right, like they're punishing her because she has a heart not to crush other people's dreams, like tf....
Nitewulf in the television hosting profession it is though.
djanime317 she couldn’t do the job so they replaced her, that’s not being punished.
I didn't take the last point as the scandal being that they hired someone with performance difficulties, but that they switched her out? So the list was kind of on her side?
Judge Tom is great. Those people in season 2 were all bullies it was like the Stanford project. Its like they had no idea how bad they looked trashing Marcel.
It honestly made me feel bad for marcel. Watching the whole season made me realize he was just socially awkward. He really seemed like a nice guy and he even helped other chefs when preparing meals. But people like ilan and petty looked like monsters in my eyes. Especially that fake attitude that they try to mask their true faces with
I have no respect for that group of bullies. They were shitty to Marcel.
@@girlygal098 for me i think Marcel deserve worst. I don't like people who can't get alone with others and when people retaliate then they are wrong. just my opinion.
@Nik Liwanag how so he seemed to be enjoying himself for the most part ....
Even mikey said the camera crew did an amazing job making marcel look way more innocent than he was. Should he have been assaulted? No
Was he innocent? Hell no!
C'mon be realistic one of his tactics was piss off the other players throw them off their game . He made enemies like a craftsman and managed to piss off all the other contestants.... that's intended, that's not trying to fit in.
LOVE TOM. Reputable Chef with amazing feedback and guidance. By contrast, Padma. I never got why she was there or understood the need to sexualize food.
How is the Katie Lee thing a scandal? Seems like it just wasn’t a good fit. It didn’t sound like she like the job
ken shin Exactly. I love watching Katie Lee on The Kitchen but she wasn’t a good fit for Top Chef.
Yeah, this video is kind of garbage and meaningless.
Lee's nasally/ monotone voice is completely unbearable
Agreed, Lee was not a good fit at all. I really don't think she's a good fit for food related tv in general because I always hate her dishes but that's mee
I loved Marcel. I'm glad they send someone home over the 'hair' thing, but they should have sent everyone home who participated. Marcel should have been the winner by default.
Instead that ass ilan won . I loathed him from the beginning as i could see his spite and malice , stemming from jealousy . Wonder what the judges were thinking when they took that stupid decision
@@ed4all33 Just look at which of them has returned the most to the show.
They had to do it that way or else the season would have to had been shorter - reducing the amount of money they would have brought in. They don’t care about about what is fair - just how they could make as much money as possible
"winner by default" lol no
Marcel should have won anyway.
How bullies like Sarah and Heather don’t get called out for their level of BS was beyond me.
To this day, that is still the worst thing I ever saw on Top Chef. How the producers allowed that was a disgrace.
Seriously though.. that was the most cringe worthy behavior from “adult women”. They picked on Beverly constantly. Seemed like middle school bullying to me. Yes, they should’ve been called out. Sarah also telling Emeril to “F*ck off” was disgusting as well.
Seriously! I couldn't stand watching that -- maybe they were that way with everyone, but to me, they seemed racist AF.
I agree
@@itgetter9 Definitely! I’m watching this season right now, I can’t believe how horribly they treated her. It’s vile. If I ever rewatch this show I’ll be skipping this season. The amount of times Heather complained about Beverly cooking Asian food & how often her ideas were shot down was very upsetting to watch.
And I can’t believe they questioned her work ethic when she always put her head down, asked questions as needed & turned it out in the end - despite being yelled at. Surviving an abusive relationship and then having other people in your life try to bully you is just awful, I really hope Beverly is happy and doing well. She deserves good things!
I still want justice for Carla Hall!! She deserved to win.
I want justice for Nina Compton too!
I stopped watching at season 8 I think but I never got over the atrocity of Season 5. And Hosea winning over Stefan. Top Chef had the most horrible elimination/winner decisions ever.
Unlike singing and dancing competitions, the viewer of a cooking competition is in no position to judge the quality of the contestants' creations. At each stage, the contestants are judged only on their latest creation, not on how well they performed throughout the previous stages of the competition.
@@stflaw you have a point, especially for finales, but I still feel salty. I just remember top chef always keeping around the contestants who they knew would never win, week after week for 'one more chance', while sending home the "strong" ones over one weak dish. Granted i haven't watched in years, maybe it's not like that anymore.
Amanda P It’s definitely still like that.
I’m just really glad Richard had another opportunity to win, but Angelo should have won his season, unfortunate he got sick.
@@TearMeOpenIBelieve I get where you are coming from, however, having watched the judging so many times, when the best contestants flop they usually flop big, and I mean really big. Those chefs you are talking about that are consistently amongst the bottom rank and will definitely most likely not win the show are always consistent and consistently improving. That consistency and improvement is what makes them continually squeak by until surprise their in the finals. And of course you never would have expected that.
"I'll smash your pretty little face!"
Lol, how do you compliment and threaten someone at the same time...
At least he used a cooking term.
I wouldn't be surprised if she made that up. They did an even in KY at my family's marina and she was insanely rude. She even had her "people" not to speak to her unless spoken to.
“If it’s not broken...break it”
-Elliot
😂
I haven't heard about 99% of these.
“He pressured her into a divorce.” So he asked for a divorce? Maybe I’m just not understanding this, but isn’t that how it works?
Not quite, if you asked your partner for a divorce, but they refuse, then it's a no-go. It's why they have "separated" under relationship status.
@Bau and be stuck with the bill..
Probably she doesnt want to loose a paycheck. Some people refuse to get a divorce even if the relationship is dead and gone. But its pathetic to hust keep talking shit about your ex who doesnt want you anymore and in the end he still end up successful and married with his new beau and have his own family. My advice to these ladies and gents are : MOVE ON. Dont make yourself look pathetic. If he or she doesnt want you anymore stop doing desperate shit especially talking to tabloids just to nake called him for ditching you. You dodge a damn bullet. Move on and be happy.
@@dillahidayat2204 she probably hated the guy because he cheated on her not just because he went on to be with person he cheated with lol. That's a pretty good reason to hate your ex.
If that's all it was, he could have just gotten the divorce without "pressuring" her for anything. He pressured her to do something. Maybe he wanted her to be the one to file it? I don't know. But if he just wanted a divorce with no pressure, he could have just done it on his own.
That first one is pretty serious. What dude was about to was called "scalping". Its highly disrespectful to do to another person
Agreed and this is my first time hearing that Tom was furious and wanted to kick them all off the show. I wish he had. I couldn't stand Ilan and Elia; Marcel should have won that season! He was so robbed.
I know, it’s scary to think what they could of done to him with that gang mentality they had going on. It’s horrifying how they acted with cameras *on* them.
@@keelahrose Seriously, I could not stand those three. Marcel was super annoying but he backed it up with some good food. He lost because he didn't use the native root to Hawaii even though Ilan fucked it up and it made their throats itchy.
@@ParrishT3 Yes I don't recall the specifics now but my memory is that they gave Ilan the win despite mistakes.
Highly. Agreed.
I’ve worked for Jeff and Janine since December as the opening team of Root and Bone Miami. I can say they are both good hearted sincere people. Love working for them.
Hey, how are things with you today?
"chest bumping in a threatening way" lmao
Mashed: it's sad Top Chef will be plagued by these scandals forever.
Also Mashed: here is a compilation of all their scandals.
LOL
How is paying tipped employees complicated, you pay them their salary, they keep 100% of their tips
Bc for most waitstaff their pay is barely $3/hr. Everything else is tips
@@pandapunk1993 right, so they keep all of their tips, you don't pool them, don't split them, don't take a cut, they keep 100% of the tips they receive
When I did the Gig what I was tipped my mine. If a SA went above I kicked him some. It was a place where you could walk with a grand a night if you were good. Now I ask if it's tip share. If so I tip on the card & drop cash for the server & never lower than 20%. Most don't know that the kitchen is backed up & the server has no control over that.
It is complicated because servers have to tip out bus boys, bartenders, runners, hosts and so many of them lie about how much cash tips they received so they pay less taxes. It can be hard for managers to know how much they actually were taking home each night. Also their claim of not being paid for the time it took to change into their uniforms is ridiculous. I have never had a job in any industry where you clock in and then get dressed for work.
When I was in college, I took a summer job waitressing in a little restaurant. The fat, ugly and lazy lady boss made me hand over half of each tip I made. She'd sit in the corner of the restaurant and eat the whole time. She looked just like Jabba the Hut. I was so glad to see she went bankrupt. Haw haw...
I don't see how having some one on a show who later does something scandalous is a scandal for the show. With Isabella, Besh, Qui, McInnis, and Booth, I'm not sure what the studio should have done to avoid them
And just because someone does something shitty at one point in their life doesn’t make them a bad person. God forbid they fuck up
@@LaineMann You and Valerie both make excellent points here. TY
Kathie Lee Joel is not exactly a scandal...it's just about a good person through and through who can't get over the fact that part of her job is to obliterate contestants by sending em home
She’s very enjoyable, when doing demos on Instagram, from home. I think she’s loosened up a little.
Motherhood does that to some of us.
As a Chef myself I have dealt with some serious inappropriate idiots, I love my profession but sometimes you really ask yourself if you have mistakenly chosen the wrong profession.
I worked in an Italian restaurant and the owner would regularly steal tips from the staff and give BS excuses. A guy I knew who worked in a restaurant said the same thing happens at his workplace. Apparently it’s not unusual in the restaurant business.
HindsightPOV some Italian bosses lve had were real hogs
Honestly, what they did to marcel... That was disgusting. Just wrong. Shame.
Top Chef is not a government agency so it's not "pay to play." Charging cities for tourism advertising is perfectly legal. Cities pay to advertise for tourism.
GizmoMaltese Yeah, I’m confused. A TV show integrating a paid Tourism partner is nothing new or unusual.
No one said it was illegal, just that the governor said it would cost zero but it actually cost $400k.
A lot of processed meats use to included horse meat.
That ended when people finally found out what was in IKEA's meatballs.
I don't know.
1. I have just finish watching Season 2 and Marcel isn't as bad as I remember. Yes he is a smug... But hey he also was an amazing chef.
Also everyone was like all he does is foams but that was his style of cooking and Ilan (the winner of the season) also just cook spanish food, so the same flavor just slightly different presentations ...
That was absolutely the worst season - I don't think any of them should have won - actually I did like Sam.
Totally plagued, so plagued to the point of me not knowing they were plagued until I saw this video about them being plagued
I used to like this show but they got way too gimicky.
I totally agree. I enjoyed the first several seasons but then suddenly it was like the show turned into a combination of Survivor and Fear Factor. I want to see what a contestant can produce cooking - not how well he can cook at 3am in a building that just caught fire using only 4 ingredients.
When Logan Paul was a guest judge I had to stop watching.
Come back. The most recent season is a lovefest. The top 5 cheftestants are top notch and any one of them could have won and I'd have been happy.
She should disappear looser
@@mikekhim5491 whaaaat??? is this real? 😂😂😂
A lot of these chefs famous on tv always seem to not pay their staff enough. I saw this happen with Jamie Oliver's restaurants not long ago
i work in industry an the sad truth is that shit chain restaurants pay better wages then the fancy restaurants cause there margins are higher. chain restaurants want employee retention but fancy restaurants with named chefs get very talented an often times naive young cooks looking to make something of themselves basically offering to work 14 hours shifts for no overtime at minimum wage or less.
@@drfuzzy3977 I still don't get why tipping is a thing... I mean a lot of people work hard and have to deal with unruly shitty customers but most industries still pay a flat wage, so do restaurants still have tipping? Why can't people who wait on others just make a normal wage like everyone else?
@@jasonespinoza6372 your asking the wrong guy i'm in the replace the waiters with ipads an robots camp firmly there are alot of good waiters out there but the majority are fairly incompetent restaurants going forward in there current state are going to become more rare your gonna see alot of smaller restaurants an takeout place's as well as food trucks cause they let you cut down on personnel an cut costs so you can focus on food quality at the end of the day no matter how good your waiter is people come to restaurants for the food i personally am trained as both a bartender an a chef so i can make you an amazing cocktail an a great meal why would you pay an extra 30% so a hipster arts student could make you the same thing an take an extra 10 mins doing it when you could just punch your order in on an ipad an get exactly what you want exactly as you described it
@@jasonespinoza6372 Tipping should be a bonus for the good service you got ,not because the waiter depends on that tip because his/her boss is not paying enough.
@@tallbeard7111 exactly! The US is backwards.
I’m a fan of the show, seen every season and I didn’t know about most of these incidents so thank you
I watched the pea puree scandle and several chefs said they saw him make the pea puree so that is not completely accurate
When cooking shows started becoming, like the media, more about the hosts:chefs, and anchors, instead of the information they are to present, they really lost their purpose, imho.
So is Kate Lee Joel the scandal? Or the replacement? Cuz I'm thinking: "What the heck for? She seems like a genuine human." Nothing to note against Padma. What's the real scandal in the last portion?
None of these were really "scandals" in my opinion.
What a waste of time.
They scouted that annoying Padma sheep, Fatima to save Padma’s bigotry about excluding Arabs on the show! Terrible how annoyed and humiliated gold- digger Padma was towards her during Restaurant Wars S15 but Katie has no bigotry top of her gold digging lol
Agreed. Especially when our POTUS has sexually assaulted MULTIPLE woman and endorsed and ACTUAL pedophile. And yet apparently a restauranteur taking his staff’s tips is the end of the fucking planet? I mean it’s slimy yeah. But it isn’t newsworthy
Forever plague the show, yet this is the first time I’m hearing of any of this. lol.
I love how it said people were completely blindsided and upset with eating and cooking a horse but not thinking about the history that has in the actual country they were cooking it
“ROOT” and “BONE”? Of course there was a sex scandal!🤣
Never knew about these scandals till now
They scouted that annoying Padma sheep, Fatima to save Padma’s bigotry about excluding Arabs on the show! Terrible how annoyed and humiliated Padma was towards her during Restaurant Wars S15
Oh my goodness chefs acting innapropriatly never would have thought with all the kindness and non hazing policies of Hells Kitchen
3:23 she looks so uncomfortable to have him feed her
There's literally no way top chef didn't know about Besh, it was an open "secret" in the industry for years before the allegations went public. They just didn't care until it made them look like creeps by association.
Besh was also edited out of an episode of Iron Chef Showdown for the same incident
Why was Katie Lee's tendency for empathy a cause of scandal?
That was my thought. I thought it was sweet, she wanted them to succeed and didn't want to hurt them. Compassion and empathy should be a virtue, not a "scandal"
The amount of satisfaction I take from Mike Isabella's downfall probably doesn't speak well of my character. But to have it confirmed that he's the pig I suspected he was from the beginning of his Top Chef career is validating, and I'm wallowing in schadenfreude.
How was it confirmed? By him paying the accusers instead of going through a years-long witch hunt? He wasn't judged guilty, so you don't know if the accusations are true.
Same girl, same.
lol, "Pursue other opportunities" is the same line they use at my place of employment too.
Something people often gloss over when it comes to the Marcel assault: Bravo edited the events to make it seem like Elia and Ilan shaved their heads, then tried to involve Marcel in the "fun." In reality, it was the other way around -- they tried to shave his head, then ended up shaving their own heads afterwards.
This was discovered when fans caught a glimpse of Elia with a full head of hair in the footage of Cliff attacking Marcel. Bravo then doubled down and re-edited the episode to remove the shot of Elia instead of sequencing the events in the correct order.
You forgot Padma is a diva and doesn't have any claim to be a judge of food that chefs cook. She's just a damn foody the most. An overpaid host / presenter on a food show.
Is this Katie Lee???
franzb69 They scouted that annoying Padma sheep, Fatima to save Padma’s bigotry about excluding Arabs on the show! Terrible how annoyed and humiliated Padma was towards her during Restaurant Wars S15
@@Emlane09 first of all Fatima was not arab she was pakistani. and I'm saying was because she died, RIP. You may wanna look up the term bigotry, you clearly dont understand it and you sound like a bigot yourself for complaining about POC being on a show.
Sam Ec l am far from a bigot! Cancer or not, Fatima had a fake phoney personality that was unlikable and l personally was not a fan despite it being not PC to not support a cancer patient
I don’t see a problem with eating horse meat. How is it any different from eating another animal like a cow?
Well it depends on how you see it, if you are religious then there are some wich prohibit it. If you're not following any specific diet then the stigma of where you grew up probably.
My girlfriend used to clean a very famous celeb chef’s house until he tried to make a move on her unexpectedly. She slapped the shit out of him. He’s married with kids and my girlfriend no longer talks or cleans for him following the incident. I can see how a lot of them are pieces of 💩.
Graham Elliot always came off as idk just off or wrong now I know why! DBAG!
This was tame for a "reality" show , most or types of shows have people that have killed others etc. , and most of the video was about people on the show doing thing non-related to the show itself. I think the Peas thing was one of the few that was a sort of "scandal" on the show. When Spike used frozen sea scallops that were in the kitchen of one of the guest hosts judges restaurants and at Judges table that owner bashed Spike for useing them even tho it was clear that judges restaurant served frozen produce and Spike called him out on it was a better example of the shows "scandals" then something The host of the show being replaced for what seemed like legit reasons and in the video even pointed out that the person who hosted season one still did okay for herself after the show so it wasn't like she got Blacklisted or something.
Last the video is dated 2019 yet there is no mention of Anthony Bourdain who was had a fairly big role on the and besides his Suicide he alone could have a 4 part video of "scandals" and i know of bigger "scandals" or story's that happened. Sorry i will get my info about things from other channels , sorry.
tony sobon killed others? Excuse me what?
Thomas Keller should be on this! He does the same thing as Tom
When you put yourself in the spotlight expect someone wanting a piece of you.
Top chef season 2 were the days of our lives. Such good and different times
why cant the US pay their waiters the minimum wage excluding the tips?
They do in some states. Depends on state laws regarding this type of work. The state of Oregon requires that everyone gets paid the state minimum wage plus whatever tips. Servers there have no issue with tip sharing with the kitchen. However, in a state like Illinois where their laws allow employers to average tips into the minimum wage but still ask servers to share tips, that's just fkd! I did it anyways and still made over 1000 a week. Part of it is because of the tips as wage situation, you work harder for those tips and give amazing service. Everyone I served from out of state or other countries commented on the quality of service in Chicago.
Because restaurants use tipping as an excuse to get out of it
wow... I'm sure that behavior is definitely going to encourage film crews to come to boston and hire union members
Remember life before the internet when everyone had private lives and you had no idea whether the stars you saw on TV were pieces of crap.
Under the pressure, its already got to be an intense environment but being singled out like Marcel was and then consistently picked on, back stabbed, physically assaulted, and treated like shit in general by at least 6 of the contestants was just wrong and totally against the spirit of being a so called Top Chef as was the case. Sure Marcel annoyed them but to treat and abuse him the way they did, I have huge respect for Marcel for keeping it about the food and holding his head high throughout what would of been a horrible daily grind of being hated. Ilan Hall, Cliff Crooks ( the jerk that assaulted Marcel), Elia, Sam, Frank and Betty completely failed as Chefs in respect of looking out for your peers even if you don't like them, they all made Marcels experience as difficult as possible, were mean, vindictive and just ruined season 2. I hope they all remember the experience for the assholes they were. TOP CHEF SEASON 2: MARCEL VIGNERON!!!
no word of tx and the bully twosome
*but they did include creep Alex and suspicious pea soup mystery*
Hold on, how is “showing up to work drunk” a form of harassment? That doesn’t make any sense.
You can't just say it about someone. They have to admit it or have them tested to prove it. If their Dr has them on medication that is causing them to act different and they aren't drunk then you have a big problem. That is how N.Y. labor laws are anyway.
It is if the drunk person starts to be a jerk.
I Eat Plastic, then that’s not harassment by “showing up to work drunk”. They would be harassing someone by being a jerk to them. Not by showing up to work drunk.
Payton Yoder I know.
Her lawsuit was for sexual harrasment AND unsafe working conditions. Considering the person will be working around knives.... Fire.... boiling water... Blazing ovens....etc. Having a drunk manning the kitchen is DEFINITELY a safety issue. I watched a drunk chef stumble right into the deep fryer. His entire forearm got submerged. He suffered the most horrific burns I have ever seen. He was fired and did not qualify for workmens comp because he was under the influence at the time of the incident.
"It's a beautiful world we live in, a sweet romantic place, beautiful people everywhere..." Devo
Funny how someone ends up on tv or similar and all of a sudden women are accusing them of assault, etc... No wonder real victims get ignored.... Wtf?
Well this is depressing
So strange to describe Katie Lee as "robotic" and "wooden" and then have her replaced by the android Padma
Season 16 is quite wonderful, but Graham Elliot's ignorance is pretty shocking though, despite having a restaurant in Macau, he had no clue that it hasn't been ruled by Portugal since 1999.
I work in the industry it's so funny how big owners talk and have no idea about how to manage finances
Only cooking shows I care about have Gordon on them 🤷🏻♂️
the only true one.
An honest Gordon Ramsay working hard
I liked Marcel I wanted him to win... It was so annoying to see Ilan winning since he was a bit envious of Marcel and how the others wanted him out but see Marcel showing his talents until the end was great...
I didn't like Ilan either
Ilan was a worm.
Yaaasss... the pea purée controversy will never die!
Why did you include shots of San Antonio (the Alamo) if it wasn't considered for location shooting? Austin, Houston and Dallas were the only cities you mentioned.
It's cringe. The most pretentious chef show on earth.
I Dont care. I just watch for
Gail Simmons 😍
Millions of cows, chickens, and pigs die yearly for food but a horse is where people draw the line?
Chef life behind closed doors. Yikes.
Jesus, lots of messed up people.
That explained a lot. I’m sure there’s a lot more to be explained about Alton Brown and “the Chairman” on “Iron Chef America.” That’s enough of real fake reality cooking for one day.
Top Chef is a TV show that hosts humans with human problems. Should call this video "Scandals that will plague Humanity forever".
We live and work in a very hard industry!
Very true. Sabatoge and drugs are high on the list
And then you remember Graham Elliot was the nicest of the judges in MasterChef...
wolf in sheep's clothing
He still is
Yay you featured wolf boy 😁
For the true fanatics
How does one “Chest bump in a threatening manner”
So if you remove the stories that don't include the actual show it would be about 3 minutes.
Would have been MUCH longer if they'd included the scandals from contestants involved in Top Chef Just Desserts. One of those guys was busted for kiddie porn and another embarrassed himself so bad he had to change his name. And then one woman was injured by production's incompetence. She had a bandage on her head for the whole time she was on the show and the EW recapper used to call her "Head Wound Heather" and note that she usually seemed out of it. Turns out some camera man or sound operator dropped heavy equipment on her head the very first day of filming, and they threatened her that if she told anyone how she was injured they'd kick her off the show.
A lot of these scandals are only tangentially related to the show. It seems a bit slanderous to impugn the character of Top Chef based on what a contestant did after leaving the show.
I've never understood the objections to horse meat, as if horse are somehow sacrsanct while cows apparently deserve to be slaughtered. It makes absolutely no sense.
Horses aren't meant to be eaten, they were born to be ride! Have you ever seen a cow race in the Kentucky Derby? =/
Full kitchen combat. I’ve been there. Sharp objects, 🔥, hot grease- what could go wrong?? I forgot big egos. I’m very thankful I’m out of the culinary business.
Wow, everyone coming out to get them back.
We can also add on them canceling the after season episodes after chef tom threw a hissy fit that lesser chefs questioned why he wouldn't endorse grass fed beef. (Which he now does after stating then that you can't run a steakhouse on it)
400K for advertisement all season long, A season where people all over the world can see what a state has to offer, and one that can be watched anytime.... that is hell cheap for advertisement. Kardashians get 100 to 200K per Instagram post alone. What top chef offered in exchange for state wide tourism is an amazing deal.
Wow I used to watch this show when I was a kid lol, had no idea that all of this happened.
In the good old days the shows were actually worth watching. Not today.
4 years ago, and still watch the show......
Katie could have gotten a job as a ventriloquist
My top scandal for this show was when they had a challenge at the Plantation and the only black guy was sent home and his dish was'nt even the worst TBh.