'Top Chef' host Padma Lakshmi admits it's hard to walk away from the show. She tells the 'Awardist' podcast about that, why she won't 'spit anything out' during judging, and more.
The model and TV host was actually approached to host the Bravo reality competition while it was in development prior to its 2006 debut, but Lakshmi had already signed on to star in a British TV movie during the production dates, the Emmy-nominated host tells EW on the latest episode of"I had pitched another show to Bravo at the time and they didn't want to do that show, but they said they were developing a food show and wanted to know if I would be interested in hosting that,"...
"We were adamant that we didn't want to do a certain type of reality show," she says of premiering in an era when shock value was prioritized. "We wanted it to be about the food and the chefs."element" while filming season 2: "Especially because at the end of the competition, it got very heated. But I think that was the only case…We made sure that nothing like that ever happened again.
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