Hélène Darroze
is one of the pillars of “Top Chef”.
The three-star chef has been giving her advice there since 2015. This year, the show is celebrating its 15th anniversary and has put together a 15-star jury for the occasion.
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Two new recruits have joined the chef and her colleagues Philippe Etchebest, Paul Pairet and Glenn Viel: Dominique Crenn, three-starred in San Francisco and Stéphanie Le Quellec, honored with two Michelin macaroons in Paris and winner of the second season of the culinary competition.
From now on, the six gastronomy maestros on the jury are divided into two brigades: the men's versus the women's.
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The season promises to be colorful.
Invited on the RTL show “The Unexpected Journal” presented by Nathalie Renoux, Hélène Darroze did not hide the joy she had in filming it.
“It went really well
,” she explained.
It was a bit of an exceptional season.
It's been a great season, I hope it shows in the images because we had fun... whether it was us members of the jury or the candidates, it was great!”
Last year, Hélène Darroze withdrew a little from the culinary competition itself to take charge of “The Hidden Brigade”, a new show in the second part of the evening in which she collected the losers of the program and made them compete. face in duels.
Danny Khezzar, eliminated in the second episode, he managed the feat of subsequently beating all the outgoing competitors.
He had thus won eleven duels, commanding the admiration of Hélène Darroze!
Thanks to his victory in this parallel competition, Danny was able to re-enter “Top Chef” with Hélène Darroze, by surprise, during the quarter-finals.
The duo then reached the final where the candidate was finally beaten by Hugo Riboulet, big winner of season 14.
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This adventure allowed Hélène Darroze to create special links with Danny Khezzar.
The young man, who officiates in Michel Roth's Michelin-starred Bayview restaurant in Geneva, left a message for the chef in “The Unexpected Journal”.
“Hello Hélène, I hope you are well, it’s a little hello, it’s Danny.
We'll see you soon, next week for the 4 hands but it's just to thank you.
It's already been a year since
“Top Chef”
aired and it's pretty crazy how much I've learned.
There really was something that clicked, I think, with the emotion in the dishes, we've already talked about it a lot, but it was just a little nod to say hello."
Hélène Darroze, with a smile on her lips throughout the message, reacted just afterwards to this surprise on Nathalie Renoux's microphone:
“Danny, he's a wonderful person, it was a joy to work with him
,” she said. confided before continuing.
Besides, he came to do a four hands in one of my restaurants and I'm going to Geneva next week to do it with him.
He’s really someone with whom I have a particularly strong relationship.”