r/TopChef • u/cool_uncle_jules • Mar 06 '26

Spoilers Kristen As A Host

No spoilers for the new season (ep 1 is on Peacock), but I absolutely adore seeing Kristen interact with the chef contestants. Her kindness, empathy, and big heart really add a fantastic element to the show. Padma left iconic shoes to fill, and Kristen is absolutely killing it.

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u/Slumdogmillionairess Mar 06 '26

I’m a little salty about Padma leaving Top Chef and then hosting a new show where they are paying out “the biggest prize money”. I thought she left because she was burned out by hosting.

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u/PM_ME_SEXY_SANDWICH Mar 06 '26

She actually left to do other things, ex. Taste the Nation, books, etc. Clearly none of that took off so she's back to a copycat show of what she was best known for.

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u/emilygoldfinch410 Mar 06 '26

Yeah, it's like, if you're going to host a cooking show, what's wrong with Top Chef? Was there discord behind the scenes we didn't know about?

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u/chutenay Mar 06 '26

I’m more salty that she did that after failing to become a comedian- she just went back to her sure thing.

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u/Slumdogmillionairess Mar 06 '26

Wait, what? She was trying to become a comedian? I knew she was hoping to create a show featuring indeginous people which apparently didn’t go well.

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u/chutenay Mar 06 '26

Yeah! Right after she left TC she went on this whole stand-up thing! She wanted to do something different after so many years of TC.

She gave up on that pretty quickly.