With "American Idol," you can hear their voices. With "Project Runway," you see the fashion. But viewers can't taste the food on "Top Chef," so they have to gauge contestants on personality. Valencia: It's also about how your food photographs too. It has to look tasty.
Sarah and I won the chili challenge, but ours looked the most plain. So there's an aesthetic quality that has to have an impact on the viewer. Farina: The twist at the end of chili challenge was the hardest part. Maybe I'm a little biased because that's the one I was sent home. That was the meanest thing they could have done. After being up for so many hours, being announced to people that we had the worst chili out of everybody, we already felt bad about that, so now you're going to cook against two people and in this random kitchen.
The Quickfire Challenge stopped at , I got taken to the studio, I probably made it back to the hotel at 6 a. I was up for almost two days straight at that point. Farina: Once I was kicked off, I was stuck in a hotel with no wallet, no cellphone, not even a key to the hotel room. The first two weeks there, it was just me, Keith Rhodes and Chuy.
It was like isolation. It was two weeks of myself in a room thinking how bad I messed up. They even asked if we wanted to talk to a therapist. It took me a good two-three months when I got back from the show to get back to my normal self. There was one night on the kitchen line on a busy Friday night, I turned to Chris and said, "I don't think I deserve to be here anymore. He had puzzles he had done that he hung up on the wall. Farina: He's the hometown guy from Austin.
He's very talented, he thinks about food in a very different way. He won for a reason. For me, I had an opportunity to eat at both restaurants on that last episode, and based purely on the dinners I ate, Sarah was robbed. I think there would have been a backlash if Paul didn't win. Valencia: Paul. Jones: If we're basing on the dish at hand, Sarah's meal was better.
But overall, Paul did better over the entire season. Q: With those "talking heads" interviews, I sense there were some leading questions. Grueneberg: They might say, "so and so said this about you, what do you say about that?
There's a specific thing I remember about the story they worked on about Beverly and I. It was the mentor challenge, and I said, "I don't want to lose," and they show my face on screen. Then they cut to another shot and add "to Beverly. Asked about this in a phone conversation, a Bravo spokeswoman said: "We only tape what the chefs give us.
We put them in a situation and they react. We never make someone into something they're not. We can't create stuff out of thin air. Sometimes when people see themselves on camera, they can be surprised by themselves. Grueneberg: Absolutely not. Why would I say that? I didn't want to lose to anybody period. Jones: They got angry at me was because all I was saying was nice things about people. They'd say, "how come you haven't said one bad thing about anyone on the show?
They'd say, "don't you feel you got ripped off? That's just how it was. I'm glad they won. Q: Did you come away learning anything about reality show production? Grueneberg: I learned that the camera people worked even harder than us. They're away from their families even longer. Q: A big story line this season was the rivalry between Heather and Beverly.
When you walked in the room, you hugged. So there's no animosity? Terhune: People say I was a bully to Beverly, it's completely wrong, that is not how I feel it was at all.
I will say my opinion. I never said anything derogatory. It's almost as if they were building me as a villain. Kim: By no means, Heather, did you deserve hate. But honestly from my side, I deserved an apology.
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He was the last original member. Read full article. February 29, , PM. The Insider: How did it feel to leave right before the finale? Story continues. Celebrity In The Know by Yahoo. It likely won't be easy to avoid knowing who won, since after weeks and weeks of crazy challenges, battling the heat, working barbecues, chopping food out of ice blocks and more, Top Chef came to an end Wednesday night and the news is out.
In the end there was just one and Chicago hoped and prayed our local girl, Grueneberg, would not only take home the top prize as the second winner from Chicago, but also as the second female winner in the show's history behind Stephanie Izard. So when the judges called out Paul Qui 's name, you could almost hear a collective groan sweep across the city. Grueneberg and Qui both presented amazing meals from two very different perspectives. As Bill Terlato told Eater earlier this week , people watching would be in for a great show and that choosing the winner was definitely not an easy decision to make.
And apparently, the judges wanted to call it a tie , but Bravo execs wouldn't allow it—that just wouldn't make for good TV. Eater, granted with Grueneberg's first interview after Wednesday night's results, talked with the chef from New York to chat about the final moment at judges' table, what she would have done with the money and how she really feels about Qui winning.
So how are you feeling this morning? I'm feeling great. I feel at peace. It's all good. The finale was shot in January so you've had some time to let reality settle in. But how was it hearing the news initially? It was devastating. You could see it on my face. It was like 5 a. I was just sad. It's weird because when you're on a show like this it becomes your reality. You want something so bad and you get so close. I'd rather be in this situation than never have done it at all.
What went through your mind when you heard Paul's name? There's a little bit of drama there. They'll say one thing and there's a pause and you want them to say it. Paul, he was so consistent the whole season and he's such a great chef. I knew if he won it was OK.
At that point it was splitting hairs. They said it was the best food of any finale — how amazing is that? And I had the best dessert according to Padma [Lakshmi]? Emeril [Lagasse] said that, "If you only have 10 amazing dishes in a year then you truly are blessed, you did that for me right here. How long did it take you to recover when you didn't win? It took about three weeks for me just to feel normal again and get back to work on my own.
When you're there they tell you when you're getting up and eating. According to reunion master Andy Cohen, 90 percent of all questions about Top Chef: Texas had to do with Beverly and the trio of sweaty, foul-mouthed meanies who bullied her throughout the competition. Oh my God. Seriously, why were we subjected to that? I need a nice sorbet to cleanse that from my brain-palate. If Sarah won a bit of my sympathy after the finale last week, she sort of lost it again right here.
Imagine how Sarah would take it if three awful people harped on everything she said or did all season. The other judges clearly knew she said it. Clearly, Beverly has a forgiving soul for not flying across the room to strangle Heather, the most vile human being ever to break an egg in the Top Chef kitchen.
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