BREAKING: Bravo host is stepping down from Top Chef after the reality competition show wraps up its 20th season.
“After much soul searching, I have made the difficult decision to leave,” Lakshmi wrote on social media. “Having completed a glorious 20th season as host and executive producer, I am extremely proud to have been part of building such a successful show and of the impact it has had in the worlds of television and food.”
She went on the say that 17 years on the show, she feels it “time to move on” and “make space” for other projects like her Hulu travel showas host in the show’s second season in 2006, replacing Season 1 host Katie Lee. As the show’s producers recently revealed in an, Lakshmi was always their first choice to host, but by the time they were ready to start shooting the first season, she had booked an acting gig on a British miniseries.
“I’d watched the first season, so I got a sense of it,” Lakshmi explained. “I was a little worried people would assume that Bravo was sticking another model on the show because of Heidi [Klum]—I’d written a cookbook and hosted another food show—but I was just glad I got to say ‘Please’ before the ‘Pack your knives and go.’”
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