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I’m really looking forward to this week’s next week’s Top Chef.
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| Martin Argles | Guardian |
After a contrived Martha-boasting holiday special where no one got booted and a rerun of a Christmas cookoff challenge, Top Chef looks to get back on track this week next week (dammit!) with the introduction of new judge Toby Young. Infamous for his acerbic nature as well as his 2005 memoir How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, I think Young has the potential to be the perfect replacement for the likable Ted Allen, who left the show to pursue a bunch of different projects with Food Network. He uses the phrase “the bland leading the bland” in the Bravo teaser. Har.
Best part is that they’re rocking a double elimination this episode to make up for the faux-miraculous sparing of Gene, Melissa and Jamie two weeks back.
Young’s How to Lose Friends, which chronicles his combative trials within the New York publishing world (Vanity Fair in particular), was adapted into a movie, which came out in Philly this fall. Simon Pegg, who plays a version of Young in the film, had nothing but nice things to stay about the journalist when questioned by our own Shaun Brady:
“I was expecting a lot more of an obnoxious, tenacious self-promoter,”
Pegg says … “I’m sure he is that
to a degree, but the guy I met was a pretty mellow, sweet guy who I
really liked.”
I have had my full of that awful Xmas episode too, but we will have to stomach it for one more week as the Toby Young episode isn’t until next week. Top Chef doesn’t like the competition of holidays.
anthony:
Argh, you’re right. My mistake. Can I really wait another week?!