The candidates of this twelfth season of “Top Chef” are very talkative.
Since the start of the prestigious culinary competition broadcast every Wednesday evening on M6, the show is on the plate, but also, thanks to Arnaud and Mohamed, in the exchange of valves.
The two candidates season their dishes with spicy punchlines.
We want rab.
"There, it's the sprint my buddy, you have to hang up your underpants", warns Mohamed Cheikh from the first episode.
Arnaud Baptiste, for his part, warns his opponents: “I'm going to be in piranha mode, the war of taste, direct.
"The following week, they put the cover back: Mohamed, who in the meantime joined Hélène Darroze's red brigade," is moving the couscoussière "while Arnaud, who is rife with Michel Sarran's yellow, attacks:" We are jackals, you have to bite everything, bite everything, devour everything.
We understood it: with these two, the shocking sentences will fuse.
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“We laughed phew on the set, remembers Arnaud, 33, delighted to be asked about his sense of repartee.
We were confined together, in the same hotel.
In the corridors, it was messy, a summer camp atmosphere.
»Fan of Jean Gabin, nourished by the dialogues of Michel Audiard, which he scattered like a puzzle in the conversation, this former sous-chef in a restaurant in Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis) is also a big fan of rap .
The master ?
"Seth Gueko, nicknamed
Professor punchlines
in the profession".
Mohamed, his “
Top Chef
brother
”, prefers Rim'K from whom he readily borrows “I attack and I survive like a puma, yet I'm just a little fennec”, taken from the title “Immigri”.
"To exteriorize, I tell nonsense"
The two candidates have several things in common, starting with their love of the good word.
“Arnaud and I are the craziest,” confirms Mohamed.
We're the two most similar characters, we both grew up in a neighborhood.
We carry a lot.
“Between Mohamed, from Fontenay-sous-Bois (Val-de-Marne), and Arnaud, the current flows immediately.
Over the course of the episodes, they even develop a frank camaraderie.
“Him and I play ping-pong.
I said to the prod: Please do
n't put it in front of me, because we're not going to be able to do something serious,
”laughs Mohamed, rather trendy stand-up, Jamel Debbouze and Gad Elmaleh.
This constant exchange of valves reminds him of the school benches when, well installed at the back of the class, he complied with a friend's jokes until one of them took the door.
With the difference that, during “Top Chef”, the valves are also and above all a means of releasing the pressure.
“It's a competition that requires a lot of energy.
To externalize the stress, I speak, I tell nonsense, I sing alone.
I was happy with Arnaud!
"
When the latter quotes "the Tontons gunslingers", Mohamed, philosopher, draws Kipling: "The strength of the pack is in the wolf.
The strength of the wolf is in the pack.
Even the chefs have tried it.
Arnaud recognizes a certain talent in Philippe Etchebest, Mohamed ensures that Michel Sarran has a good repartee.
They both have great memories of the shoot.
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“My friends thought I was going to restrict the punchlines on TV,” laughs Arnaud.
After the first episode, they told me:
In fact, you're exactly the same, it rocks!
“And again, the one who left his post of sous chef to try the“ Top Chef ”adventure promises that he is more and more comfortable with the cameras.
A promise before this Wednesday night's episode?