i'm sorry i don't know if you like the dish or not you don't know if i like the dish or not from head
shaving to stolen recipes what's a tv show without some good old-fashioned drama so on that note here
are 10 scandals that will sadly plague top chef forever you just have to die the pgate incident
one of the worst things a writer can do is plagiarize another writer's work in the
cooking world it's the same deal you don't steal other chefs recipes and pass them off as your own
this scandal became known to the world as p gate because contestant alex resnick
allegedly stole another contestant's pea puree in season seven chef testant ed cotton made a
pea puree to go along with the seafood dish he was cooking however it somehow
went missing between the prep kitchen and the restaurant kitchen meanwhile alex suddenly had
a pea puree that looked just like the one that mysteriously disappeared even though he had no
idea what he was going to cook the day prior i don't know suspicious yes coincidence maybe but
guilty there was no way of proving it because of the lack of footage the puree mystery was never
solved and ed ended up having to change his dish at the last minute and to put even more salt on
the wound alex won the challenge the p-gate incident will not be forgotten blame canada
in some countries like france horse meat is considered acceptable fodder for fancy cuisine
many people do not agree with this culinary option but it's still commonly found in some regions
top chef canada found itself in hot water when it was revealed that contestants on the show had used
horse meat during a challenge contestants were asked to make a traditional french dish and one
of them included horse meat when the information about this upcoming episode was leaked there was
an immediate public backlash angry fans and horse lovers alike organized a social media campaign to
boycott top chef canada for this embarrassing scandal according to news stories from 2011
when the scandal broke horsemeat was not a big seller in canada except in certain parts of quebec
you know quebec is a very open-minded dining public to defend themselves top chefs stood
by their decision and said the challenge in this episode involves having the competitors create a
truly authentic traditional french menu and one of the most traditional french foods is
horse meat so technically that's exactly what they did but still not okay rachel
please that is so inappropriate paul key had reached the pinnacle of his career when he won
season nine of top chef and was one of the most famous chefs in austin however he quickly fell
back to earth when in 2016 he was arrested and charged with assaulting his girlfriend
stephanie rodriguez she called the police saying he had gone on a violent drug-fueled rampage
apparently he had pushed her and her infant son knocking over furniture and tables and had
blocked them from escaping the apartment when police showed up they noted a fresh cut on her
right forearm and bruising on her upper arms and her swollen jaw he was quick to make a statement
saying he was innocent of the charges and said that he would later be checking into rehab
a toxicology report later revealed that he had alprazolam cocaine and thc in his system stop it
get some help but the charges were eventually dropped when the victim stopped cooperating with
the investigation so key was a free man but not entirely he lost his reputation and three of his
restaurants closed nowadays key is still getting some work and opening new businesses but it's
usually never without his scandalous reputation as an alleged domestic abuser coming back to haunt
him he's still trying to redeem his bad behavior through cooking and rebuilding his culinary empire
wage theft this is a hard job so it's working at mcdonald's but you don't feel the need to tip
them do you we all know weight staff work hard for relatively low pay which is why tipping is
extremely important so you would have to be a pretty low individual if you were a manager or
owner trying to keep the tip money for yourself a judge on top chef named tom colecchio was sued by
some of his employees for exactly this offense well allegedly the same tom who has long been
an advocate for fairer labor was accused of distributing tips unfairly resulting in workers
getting paid less than minimum wage as well as not paying employees adequately for working overtime
this happened over a period of over six years at the temple court restaurant a lawsuit was
filed in federal court on behalf of the wait staff who worked at collegio's restaurants it revolved
around special events hosted by the restaurant where large parties were charged a fee and a
certain percentage of the fee was supposed to be distributed among the wait staff as a tip
kalikio fought the lawsuit successfully but not everyone was convinced he was innocent and it's
not even the first time he's been accused of bad labor practices his restaurant craft bar
settled a lawsuit out of court with employees who alleged that their tips were being garnished and
that they weren't even getting paid minimum wage not a good look for tom that's for sure
top harasser who let the lemonhead into the room you are a waste of life and you should give up
mike isabella seemed like a promising chef after his appearance on season six of top chef and top
chef all-stars with the opening of 11 restaurants and managing a staff of nearly 800 people
however this was quickly proven to be untrue a former restaurant manager sued isabella for sexual
harassment saying he and his business partner were making sexist comments showing up to work drunk
and goading another chef into trying to sleep with him which would later lead to isabella firing her
the suit alleges isabella created a hostile work environment with his unwanted comments
advances and abusive language isabella denied all the charges and the lawsuit was eventually
settled for an undisclosed amount even though he never admitted any wrongdoing isabella has
suffered the consequences of that bad behavior the restaurant industry seemed to have wasted
no time in distancing itself from him and his businesses so his future prospects became dim
bankruptcy isabella eventually had to file for bankruptcy and on december 27th 2018
he closed all of his mike isabella concept restaurants a harsh day for boston and top chef
oh i always wanted to be a teamster so lazy and surly there are always some risks when you decide
to hire a non-union film crew during the filming of top chef season 12 the local teamsters union
showed a dark side to boston a group of four boston teamsters was on site that day simply
picketing the top chef crew to protest against the abuse of the massachusetts film tax credit
and the fact that they were operating a non-union set the union members were said to have verbally
assaulted the cast and crew as they tried to film an episode of the show at least she knows i'm not
a scab like you top chef host pad malakshmi was a witness saying they became aggressive and violent
coming up to her car window hissing at her with one saying i'll smash your pretty little face
through the window they even went as far as yelling profanities slashing tires of the crew's
vehicles and were chest bumping crew members in a threatening way the bad behavior got out of hand
to the point where the police had to intervene to restore order on the set the boston police
report showed that at least 14 cars belonging to the cast and crew had their tires slashed
the union was asked to comment on these events but the officials failed to respond to reporters
requests for comments this incident was used among several others to determine whether mayor
marty walsh's office had inappropriate ties with organized labor in the city turns out he pulled
the permits for top chef in order to pressure them to use members of a local union first to go
pack your things we're leaving padma lakshmi is the popular host of the cooking competition show
top chef but it wasn't always this way only some might remember that when the show first aired in
2006 the host was a young woman named katie lee joel who was married to singer billy joel at the
time she had worked in the restaurant industry for several years at a series of restaurants
before she became the host however she wasn't exactly praised for her performance on the show
viewers were complaining and calling her too robotic and wooden which ended up with her
getting fired and the producers announced that lee was leaving the show to pursue other opportunities
katie later admitted how she would get extremely nervous on set and having to send contestants home
made her feel guilty you're fired despite being replaced after only one season that did not stop
katie lee's booming career she continued to appear on several other tv shows like halloween
baking championship meat sweats beat bobby flay and rachel ray she's also the co-host of food
network's the kitchen has her own show on the cooking channel called beach bites with katie lee
and is a cookbook author and novelist basically she didn't let one failure bring her down and just
because one job doesn't work out doesn't mean that you won't still find success
down the road judge judge thyself here's your tips on monday and tuesday
graham elliott became a judge on the hit show top chef in 2016. but you may know him from masterchef
and masterchef junior where he appeared for a decade with two michelin stars under his belt
and a charismatic television personality he seemed like a very stand-up guy but as we know
looks can often be deceiving he ran afoul of some of the employees who worked at his restaurant and
was sued in 2012 by 14 of his former staff at his chicago eatery the employees claimed
that they were owed money due to unlawful tip pooling and said that elliott was operating a
systematic scheme to deprive them of regular and overtime compensation the employees were seeking
back pay plus interest and the case was eventually settled in the fall of 2012 with elliott paying an
undisclosed sum tips are one of the main reasons to become a waiter in the first place and to keep
them from the rightful earners just doesn't seem very above board you think this job is easy even
though this was a pretty big case back then this scandal doesn't seem to have hurt elliot's career
or reputation like at all he's now a chef on top chef and gives advice on how to manage your own
restaurant a little ironic is it not removed for cause i am bringing money back home to new orleans
so hopefully they won't kill me when i get there john besh was a famous chef in new orleans and a
successful businessman when he appeared on the 15th season of top chef he was head of the john
besh restaurant group he had won a james beard award had appeared on several other cooking shows
wrote an award-winning cookbook and was considered to be one of the preeminent chefs in new orleans
these were the credentials that got him a guest hosting gig on top chef however people never
got to see him on the show because in between his top chef appearance being filmed and the
episode airing he was accused of creating a work environment in which sexual harassment and assault
flourished and not just by one or two women but 25 25 women came forward to report him and
one even alleged that bech had pressured her into a long-term unwelcome relationship and so i knew
it's over with after the news came out bravo made a statement saying they were evaluating
whether besh's episode should be aired or not days after the series premiere bravo decided it would
be best to edit bech out of the episode entirely and replace his footage with scenes of chef chris
costantino judge tom collecchio apparently had a lot to do with the editing out of vesh he called
the production company as soon as he heard the news and then congratulated bravo afterwards
saying bravo to bravo for making this decision close shave myself in your own at your service
marcel vigneron was one of the contestants who first appeared on top chef season two
known as the most popular but least liked contestant on the show vigneron was wildly
talented but with talent also comes jealousy and his fellow contestants would prove this point
the night before the final day of shooting in los angeles tensions rose between contestants
and vinerone was the victim of an assault that was caught on camera elon hall cliff crooks and
ilya abumrad were left alone in their house and were seen dragging a sleeping vigneron onto the
floor in an attempt to forcibly shave his head with an electric razor an intoxicated cliff was
seen physically pinning him down while the other contestants laughed and filmed the incident with
a handheld camera crooks put vineyard on in a full nelson but vigneron was able to get away
gonna cry judge tom colicchio was very angry about the event and reportedly wanted all of
the contestants kicked off the show and for vigneron to be declared the winner by default
the producers wanted the show to go on so they ultimately decided to send cliff crook's packing
in disgrace the other contestants were allowed to stay on so the show could finish its run this is
definitely one of top chef's most scandalous moments one that will go down in reality tv
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