Bravo revealed season 10 winner Kristen Kish will replace Padma Lakshmi as the new host of the cooking competition for season 21.
"Top Chef is where I started my journey—first as a competing chef, then a guest judge and now as host I have the honor of helping to continue to build this brand," Kish said in a press release July 11."I'm thrilled to sit alongside Gail and Tom as we get to know new incredible chefs and see what they cook up. It feels like coming home."
Ryan Flynn, Senior Vice President of Current Production, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming released his own statement, writing,"Kristen Kish represents everything that makes Top Chef incredibly special.
And as"Top Chef" fans will remember, Kish has no shortage of kitchen credibility, having attended Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago. And ahead of her tenure on the cooking competition in 2012, she served as Chef de Cuisine at a Relais & Chateaux property. In the years since her first stint on the Bravo series, she's released her first cookbook,"Kristen Kish Cooking: Recipes and Techniques" as well as opened her first restaurant, Arlo Grey in Austin, Texas.
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