This year, big changes are about to see the light of day for the new edition of Top Chef. Indeed, one of the members of the jury is deprived of a brigade in the cooking show of M6 because he will have to take care of a parallel competition intended for the candidates eliminated during the first tests of the program.
Top chef is about to make a comeback on M6. The opportunity for viewers to find the emblematic members of the jury of the cooking show which was born in 2010 in France. Glenn Viel, Paul Pairet, Philippe Etchebest and Hélène Darroz all attended this year’s event to the delight of the public and the candidates who will be able to evolve throughout the competition thanks to the wise advice of starred chefs. However, there are changes to be expected for this new season of the competition.
No more long evenings to fear seeing his favorite candidate leave during the last chance tests since they were withdrawn from the program in 2023. Each show now consists of two main rounds: a qualifier and the other an eliminator.. Another change and not the least, chef Hélène Darroze will not take a brigade under her wing this year. Member of the jury for the ninth consecutive year, she must take the lead in a parallel competition intended for candidates eliminated during the tests. The winner of this competition will have the opportunity to return to the main race with the starred chef from the quarter-finals.
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A secret contest
A news that the production tried not to spread in order to keep a surprise effect for the new participants in Top chef. “The candidates were not aware of this secret competition. They should not be, otherwise it would not work. We were afraid that there would be leaks if we shot it in stride”explained Hélène Darroze to our colleagues from Entertainment TV. “So we recorded at the very end, just before the quarter-finals. For four days, we locked ourselves in and we shot the events one after the other with a very tight technical team of 25 people instead of usually a hundred“, continued the chef. A sign that the production has done everything to try to keep the secret of this parallel competition.
A strategy that has paid off according to Hélène Darroze. “During the filming of Top Chef, a candidate told me that the other participants were disappointed that I was not there and that they thought there was a catch. , they were sad. They had no doubts at all. And I could see it when I called them to tell them that they had a second chance, they were flabbergasted”, said the 55-year-old chef. And to add: “The production had given them canards by saying that there were takes to be redone and that they had to be there”. So many novelties that promise a new season full of twists and turns.