‘Top Chef’ Judges Talk Wisconsin, the Post-Padma Era and Diversity in Food: ‘I Don’t Care If It’s from Angola or Antarctica If Something’s Seasoned Correctly’

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Here’s something to cheer aboot: Bravo‘s next season of “Top Chef” will be set in Canada. The news was announced by host Kristen Kish and judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons in a video posted to the official “Top Chef” social channels Thursday.

Eddie Vedder spoke out in support of assault victim Natasha O’Brien last Saturday (June 22) during a Pearl Jam gig in Dublin.Halfway through their set at Marlay Park, Vedder acknowledged the recent protests that have taken place in four cities across the Republic of Ireland, after a serving soldier of the Defence Forces was given a suspended sentence for attacking O’Brien.It was reported that Cathal Crotty punched O’Brien six times after she asked him to stop shouting homophobic abuse.

Even the British royals got into the Taylor Swift spirit on Friday at the traditional Changing of the Guard ceremony, where soldiers performed a brass band version of Swift’s hit Shake It Off outside Buckingham Palace.

Sophie Turner is looking so very glamorous while at the grand opening celebrations for the Peninsula London hotel on Tuesday (June 18) in London, England.

Taylor Swift has landed in London, bringing with her a wave of excitement ahead of her upcoming London Eras Tour shows.The 34 year old pop sensation was spotted at Stansted airport, looking ready to party as she arrived with crates of booze for Friday's concert.This highly anticipated gig is the first of three consecutive performances at Wembley by the Shake It Off star.Taylor and her crew disembarked from their luxurious aircraft into the night, swiftly loading up their 4x4s. Their arrival came just hours before Just Stop Oil activists broke into a VIP private airfield at Stansted airport and vandalised aircraft.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the winner of Top Chef Season 21.

Alison Herman TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the season finale of “Top Chef.” The utensils are down, the knives are packed, and “Top Chef” has crowned its latest winner. Season 21 began in Wisconsin before decamping for the Caribbean, where contestants visited Curaçao and Aruba between cooking meals on a massive cruise ship. In the final episode, Dan Jacobs, Savannah Miller and Danny Garcia were each tasked with cooking the best meal of their lives in the hope that alumna and new host Kristen Kish would declare them the latest Top Chef.

Alison Herman TV Critic Season 21 of “Top Chef” was the venerated food competition’s first without longtime host Padma Lakshmi. Nevertheless, the show adapted without her, and will culminate on June 19 with a finale set aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Out of 16 chefs who competed in Wisconsin, judges Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and Kristen Kish — a former winner who stepped into Lakshmi’s role — have narrowed the field to just three contenders: Dan Jacobs, Savannah Miller and Danny Garcia.

A TikToker flew to Portugal and bought peri peri chicken all for less than £15 - cheaper than the cost of his usual Nando’s order.

Stormzy has revealed that he’s “just been creating” for the past two years, while Vince Staples has spoken of his foray into television.West Coast rap met UK grime on Monday (June 10) when Stormzy and Vince Staples came together in conversation, compèred by former NME Awards host Julie Adenuga, at London’s Ham Yard Theatre. The invite-only event saw them discuss new music, staying grounded and Stormzy’s love of Glastonbury.Long Beach native Staples was in the capital as part of his UK and European tour in support of recent album ‘Dark Times’, which was released last month, before he played a show at London’s Roundhouse.

The stars of House of the Dragon are hitting the red carpet!

She may be new to hosting Top Chef, but this experience isn’t that new for Kristen Kish. As the winner of Season 10, Kish was chosen to host when Padma Lakshmi announced her departure from the series after almost two decades. Though the task seemed daunting at first, Kish quickly realized it wasn’t that different from being a chef. “Within the first few days, I was realizing that it was so much more similar than different,” she says. “You address chefs in your restaurant all the time, and you talk about food all the time. You give facts, you hold people accountable, you answer questions, you have conversations with people in the industry… I’ve done all this stuff before.”

The search operation for Dr Michael Mosley has been branded "absurd" after the star's body was just 100 yards from a restaurant. The beloved TV personality was tragically found on the Greek island of Symi on Sunday.

Brent Lang Executive Editor When Michael Angarano was trying to get “Sacramento,” his indie buddy comedy about two friends who go on a road trip to a certain state capital off the ground, the question he’d get was always the same. Does it really need to be set in Sacramento? “At one point we were ready to shoot the movie in Atlanta — we had the financing and everything,” remembers Angarano, who directed the film, as well as co-wrote it. “And this was for a movie called ‘Sacramento.’ But it’s like why try to cheat it? Maybe, we should we just call it ‘Athens’ or ‘Savannah’?” And even though Angarano and his co-writer Chris Smith weren’t that familiar with the city that inspired their film, its appearance on a highway sign, informing them of the California city’s distance from Los Angeles, was foundational.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Masters of the Air” costume designer Colleen Atwood brought along Austin Butler’s jacket to Variety’s TV FYC Fest. “It’s Austin Butler’s jacket that he wore, Maj. Cleven’s jacket and hat, and I thought, ‘Well, I should bring it.’ It’s D-Day.

She is the undisputed queen of the kitchen, cooking up delicious dishes both savoury and sweet, but Nigella Lawson insists she doesn’t pay any thought to putting on weight because of what she eats. “My mum had a problematic relationship with food and I did think, “I don’t want to be like that.” I would rather have more flesh and eat more food,” she says. However, Nigella, 64, does admit that the issue around body image and weight was “hard to resist”.

A Doll’s House” with Jessica Chastain, “Betrayal” with Tom Hiddleston, and the incoming (and excellent) musical “Sunset Boulevard” starring Nicole Scherzinger.Predictably, his latest show is a grab bag of his favorite tricks: Live video screens, black clothes and ceaseless whispering at the expense of emotion and drama.Before “Romeo and Juliet” starts, and during intermission, the Duke of York Theatre’s lights are dimmed — a woman next to me used her cellphone flashlight to read the program — and the house is pumped full of loud “nntz! nntz” club music.I asked an employee how audience members have reacted to the oppressively thumping tunes. “They’ve cried!” the worker said.Lucky them.

A headteacher has paid a heartbreaking tribute to a ‘kind and gentle’ 12-year-old pupil who was found dead along with his father after the pair went hillwalking in the Scottish Highlands.

Audra McDonald as Mama Rose, was announced Wednesday.Directed by George C. Wolfe, the production of Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ classic musical will open in December (previews start in November) at the newly renovated Majestic Theatre — its first tenant since “The Phantom of the Opera” closed after 35 years.This story might ring a bell.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Rolling off the Cannes Film Festival where it won several awards, Mohammad Rasoulof‘s “The Seed of The Sacred Fig” has been acquired by a flurry of high profile distributors in major international territories. Films Boutique, which represents the critically acclaimed political drama globally, has sold it to Lionsgate for the U.K.