Prime Chef Season 21 is underway, and issues are trying a bit completely different this time round. The Bravo cooking competitors has up to date a few of its guidelines for the Wisconsin-set season, however the greatest change is definitely the one behind the judges’ desk. Kristen Kish has changed Padma Lakshmi as host, with Lakshmi saying that she was leaving after 19 seasons of telling contestants to pack their knives and go. On the time she expressed the necessity to concentrate on her different artistic pursuits, and now she’s opened up about a number of different causes for her exit.
Prime Chef is a kind of reveals that make you hungry simply desirous about them, so simply think about what it’s like for Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and firm, who truly get to odor, contact and style the entire decadent creations from the very best cooks within the nation (and even the world). All of that meals undoubtedly performed an element in Padma Lakshmi’s determination to stroll away, she instructed Harper’s Bazaar, admitting:
It was actually taking a toll on me bodily to digest that a lot meals in a day.
Though that in the first place feels like an issue I’d prefer to have, Padma Lakshmi actually put into perspective simply how a lot the judges should eat, saying that every season she would achieve 10 to fifteen kilos in a six-week interval. That’s not exhausting to consider, when you consider how a lot meals the contestants put together. Even when the judges are solely taking one chunk of every dish, it provides up actually shortly, and so they should no less than ingest sufficient to have the ability to choose pretty.
Age has additionally modified the best way her physique handles all that meals, she mentioned. The Sports activities Illustrated swimsuit mannequin was 35 when she began on Season 2 of Prime Chef in 2006, and now at age 53, her metabolism and perimenopause have made it more durable to take care of the physique she desires, and she or he mentioned:
I stay within the fucking health club.
The meals could also be one of many issues she gained’t miss about internet hosting Prime Chef, however her causes go simply past the bodily. Padma Lakshmi lamented that she’s spent each birthday in current reminiscence on set filming, and the schedule additionally retains her away from her 14-year-old daughter Krishna. Actually, she mentioned, she may additionally do with out the fixed scrutiny from tabloids and hypothesis about who Krishna’s father is, which Lakshmi has chosen to not disclose.
It’s not that ladies can’t have all of it, the cookbook creator mentioned, however selections do should be made. She mentioned:
You’ll be able to have all of it, however you possibly can’t have it all of sudden. I didn’t have quite a lot of time for a social life. When was I going to seek out any person I wished to hang around with?
Whereas Prime Chef followers actually miss Padma Lakshmi’s acquainted face, hopefully stepping away from the present permits her to do all of these items that she couldn’t earlier than. And who is aware of? Perhaps she’ll flip up as a visitor choose one in every of as of late. For now, you possibly can see Kristen Kish main the cost, with new episodes of Prime Chef airing at 9 p.m. ET Wednesdays on Bravo. Be sure you try our 2024 TV schedule to see the entire upcoming premieres.
