After 20 seasons as a host and now executive producer of the award-winning cooking-competition show, Padma Lakshmi says, “it’s time to move on.”
Lakshmi joined “Top Chef” for its second season in 2006, and she said this season — its 20th, whose season finale airs next week — would be her last. During her run, Lakshmi garnered four Emmy nominations for outstanding reality show host, and the show racked up an additional 10 Emmy nominations for outstanding competition program during her tenure as executive producer.
“End of an era and an incredible run,” wrote Bravo host and producer Andy Cohen, who was a producer and erstwhile judge on the show, in a comment on Lakshmi’s Instagram post announcing her news. “You were such an amazing partner and a BRILLIANT host. I have such great memories of our ['Top Chef’] days.”
NBCUniversal released a statement praising Lakshmi — as well as her gastronomic fortitude — and holding out the possibility that she might make a future guest appearance on the show she helmed.
. “She will always be part of the ‘Top Chef’ and the NBCUniversal family and has a seat at the judges’ table anytime.”
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