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TV Alert: "Top Chef: Las Vegas" debuts tonight with two gay female cheftestantsGet ready to unpack your knives and stay for a while. Top Chef is back, baby. The sixth season of the popular reality cooking competition premieres tonight. This season, 17 chefs compete to see if luck will be a lady for them in Las Vegas. Please, TV gods, find a way for the producers to get show host Padma Lakshmi in a showgirl outfit.
As in past seasons, the show features two out lesbian/bi chefs among the 17 competitors. They are: Preeti Mistry, a 33-year-old Executive Chef for the Bon Appetit Management Company at Google just south of San Francisco and Ashley Merriman, a 32-year-old chef at Branzino in Seattle. Preeti Mistry (left) and Ashley Merriman I'm glad to see they're dutifully helping to fulfill the show's faux hawk and tattoo quotas. From their Bravo bio videos, Preeti started off in film before moving to London with her partner of 13 years and going to the Cordon Bleu; Ashley grew up on welfare and started cleaning dishes in the restaurant where her mother worked as a waitress. Also, her food might not be the best to try on a diet because she says she wants her customers to leave feeling like “they got beat in the face with a stick of butter.” This season will feature an impressive array of guest judges from the worlds of food, film and fanciful illusion including Wolfgang Puck, Natalie Portman, Penn & Teller, Tyler Florence and Nigella Lawson. The thought of having Padma and Nigella side by side is almost too much to imagine.
Bravo posted a preview of tonight’s first Quickfire Challenge. And of yes, there will be blood. Ruh-roh, looks like one of our chefbians had a problem opening up her clams. Rounding out this season’s Team Rainbow is 29-year-old New York chef Ash Fulk.
So, are you ready for Top Chef Sin City style? And considering how well past chefbians like Jamie Lauren, Lisa Fernandes and Jennifer Biesty have done in the past, what’s your prediction for this season’s batch?
Also, seriously Bravo. Showgirl outfit, think about it. Top Chef premieres at 9 p.m. tonight on Bravo. Check back here weekly for recaps of each new episode. Submitted by on August 19, 2009 - 2:00pm. |
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I can't wait!
I can't wait!
Yes
Love that show!
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Wow
Finally!
I feel like I have been counting the days since May (probably because I have), and I cannot WAIT for tonight!
Plus--I'm seconding DS on the Padma-in-a-showgirls-outfit campaign. Come on, Bravo!
The competition is on,
The competition is on, Ladies! I am glued to my tv.
Awe, no lezzies won the team challenge. Bummer!
ashley is my new favorite :]
ashley kind of reminds me of tegan and sara a little bit, no? i think it's the hair. but i'm not a die hard tegan & sara fan, so maybe that's me just being dumb.
either way, she's soo cute. love it. so far anyway...and i love that the first time they showed her in an interview, she was wearing flannel.
and in our honesty, together we will rise. out of our nightminds and into the light at the end of the fight...
I’m definitely going to
I’m definitely going to watch this season. Both the bi/lesbian chefs are adorable, & I have to see Natalie Portman’s appearance as a guest judge on the show because I absolutely love her! Plus, Padma Lakshmi is always enough for me to tune in [;
Judging by that clip it doesn’t look like Preeti got off to a good start, sadly, though! I guess I’ll have to watch to make sure she isn’t the first one to go.
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ahhhhh dang i missed it
im sooo mad at myself BUUUUT thank god it comes on again a 12:15 hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
True feelings can never be put into words.
therfore when you can't explain how you feel about someone that's when you know..
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I know this is random. I clicked on your pic and a song was playing on your profile. How did u do that? Inquiring minds want to know.
Remember: Karma can be a real B@#%* if you don't treat her with respect!
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True feelings can never be put into words.
therfore when you can't explain how you feel about someone that's when you know..
Basically...
Ashley Merriman is fucking adorable. She didn't seem to get very much airtime the first episode, though.
Ashley is so
adorable!Love her glasses.(I'm totally crossing my fingers for her to be in the top 3!)
On the episode,the judges talked about every one's dishes but hers on the black team,so I'm hoping next episode they actually say if her dishes are good or not.
Oh no?
Ashley's not standing next to the Quizos oven is she?
Come into my nice warm kitchen and we'll rattle those pots and pans.
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craving for Padma
i love this show
i like this season because not only do they have TWO verry good looking lesbians they also have a haitian and im happy about that.his the first haitian i've seen in a reality show.
True feelings can never be put into words.
therfore when you can't explain how you feel about someone that's when you know..
Preeti!!!!!!!!!!!!! does anyone else thinks her name is hot?
it's such a pretty name especialy when you say her whole name it sounds sooooo hot sooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
True feelings can never be put into words.
therfore when you can't explain how you feel about someone that's when you know..
Yes, Preeti is very pretty!
Yes, Preeti is very pretty! :D
Sorry that's probably the oldest pun in the world.. and lamest too.. but she is scorching adorible!
And go TopChef!! By that I mean not only the food and the challenges but also Padma.. and Nigella.. together.. eating small finger foods off eachother :D "collapses"
This time better some lesbians win the finale! No more bald guys!
// those harper seals are biaaatchesss - Bridget McManus //
NIGELLA!!!
on the tv screen would burn my kitchen down. Food's never more titillating than when Nigella's around. I've never seen "Top Chef" and I don't know if I could see it here in FRA. Does anyone know if there are episodes on the web?
TV Alert: "Top Chef: Las Vegas" debuts tonight with two gay fema
these women are to hot :):)
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