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PHOTOS: Reality Stars’ Week In Photos – April 19th

19 Apr 2012

Bringing you an all new photo post today!

Above we have Real Housewives of Orange County star Gretchen Rossi attending the Us Weekly Hot Hollywood party in Hollywood last night, along with a bevy of other reality stars.

We also have Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann attending the NBC Summer Press day event and Bethenny Frankel multitasking on the streets of NYC.

Below, you’ll also find Kim Kardashian, Aubrey O’Day, Katherine Jenkins, Adrienne Maloof, Padma Lakshmi, Kesha Nichols, Maria Menounos, and more!

[Photo credit: Nikki Nelson/WENN]

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PHOTOS: Reality Star Picture Roundup – April 17th

17 Apr 2012

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We’re bringing you an all new mini photo post today!

Above: Kandi Burruss celebrates her new show “The Kandi Factory” at Gallery night club in Las Vegas.

Below: The Real Housewives of New York City stars Aviva Drescher, Sonja Morgan and Carole Radziwill attend the TV Land Awards; Dancing with the Stars contestant William Levy is on dad duty; Top Chef Padma Lakshmi and her daughter Krishna; Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba, Kendra Wilkinson and more!

[Photo credit: Judy Eddy/WENN.com]

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Top Chef Texas Recap: The Chefs Big Adventure With Pee Wee Herman!

2 Feb 2012

Previously: Chris gets eliminated for the crime of not making his tofu-emulsion chicken salad sandwiches to order.

We return to the Top Chef house with Grayson missing Chris, and the reveal that Ed sleeps in a button down shirt and boxers. Business up top, party underneath! There’s no time to ponder this because it’s time to head back to the kitchen, where Padma awaits them with my dream: a table of 80,000 pancakes. The chefs wonder who the guest judge will be, with Grayson guessing Miley Cyrus, which is incorrect because if it were Miley, the pancakes would be replaced with a giant bong.

Instead, the guest judge is Pee Wee Herman, who non-zygotes may remember from his TV show, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. They have 20 minutes to make pancakes for Pee Wee. Paul has inherited the liquid nitrogen throne from Chris and is making some kind of champagne concoction with it.

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Top Chef Texas Recap: Block Party!

26 Jan 2012

Previously on Top Chef: Beverly gets sent home and Charlize Theron was awesome and beautiful.

We return to Top Chef:Texas with the chefs in the stew room going over Beverly‘s departure. Grayson talking-heads that she’ll miss her while the other chefs are either hiding their feelings or just don’t seem to care.

All of a sudden an angel walks in, a.k.a. Charlize Theron, and she thanks the chefs and calls herself a “huge nerd.” No, Charlize, people currently on their 98th consecutive hour of playing Skyrim while on a Mountain Dew drip are huge nerds. You are a pretty actress.

With the stew room properly blessed, we move on to the rest of the episode and the quick fire challenge, this time being judged by Padma, Emeril Lagasse and Cat Cora, who also has a new Bravo show coming up soon, Around The World In 80 Plates (Bravo doing cross-promotion, SHOCKING!!)

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Top Chef Texas Recap: Restaurant Wars!

12 Jan 2012

Previously on Top Chef: salty grits, Padma eats ribs, and cookware gets thrown!

The chefs walk into a completely empty space, followed by Padma Lakshmi and Hugh Acheson who tell them that their elimination challenge this week will be to open and manage an Olive Garden location. Whoever can make the Tour of Italy the fastest will win access to the coveted breadsticks recipe. Finally, a challenge for us normal folks!

Actually, that never happened, but it was kinda close. Padma tells us it’s that time of the season again — for the restaurant wars challenge. Yay! This time, they will be separated by gender, which means we are in for some wonderful talking head commentary on girls ruling and boys drooling. Or, the opposite as Edward kicks off the trash talking by saying that the men are stronger chefs. You’ll want to remember that statement, folks.

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VIDEO: Top Chef Texas Premieres Tonight With 29 Contestants!

2 Nov 2011

Top Chef returns for the ninth season of Bravo’s competition cooking show! This time they are taking the “cheftestants” on a tour of Texas culinary hotspots: San Antonio, Dallas and Austin in Top Chef: Texas!

Returning judges Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons will be joined by Emeril Lagasse and Hugh Acheson along with special guests Charlize Theron, Pee-wee Herman, Cat Cora, John Besh, Tim Love and Patti LaBelle.

And proving that all things are bigger in Texas, this season the competition starts out with a record 29 cheftestants whittled down to the usual 16 during the premiere!

Those 16 chefs will then embark on a three-city culinary tour of Texas to compete for $100,000 and a feature in Food & Wine Magazine. The catch? None of the 29 chefs starting out the competition know that 13 of them will be going home almost immediately. Oops! “This season’s raising the level of intensity pretty fast,” reveals contestant Chaz Brown in the preview clip. Fittingly, some of the other contestants don’t take the news so well.

A clip of the season premiere is below! Top Chef: Texas airs tonight on Bravo (10/9c). Are you ready to get your grub on?

ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW SEASON OF TOP CHEF? WILL YOU BE WATCHING?