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Padma Lakshmi is serving up a bittersweet announcement.
After 17 years arsenic big of Top Chef, Padma volition beryllium exiting the Bravo contention amusement astatine the extremity of its existent season.
"After overmuch psyche searching, I person made the hard determination to permission Top Chef," she wrote successful a connection posted to her societal media pages June 2. "Having completed a glorious 20th play arsenic big and exec producer, I americium highly arrogant to person been a portion of gathering specified a palmy amusement and of the interaction it has had successful the worlds of tv and food."
As Padma noted, aft astir 2 decades with the Top Chef team, they've go her family. "And I volition miss moving alongside them dearly," she continued. "I consciousness it's clip to determination connected and request to marque abstraction for Taste The Nation, my books and different originative pursuits."
"I americium profoundly thankful to each of you," she concluded, "for truthful galore years of emotion and support."
Padma's announcement comes as Top Chef is currently airing its 20th season, World All-Stars, which is acceptable successful London. While the play finale is conscionable days distant connected June 8, Top Chef has already been renewed for different season. However, a caller big has yet to beryllium announced pursuing Padma's determination to exit the series.
"Padma Lakshmi leaves down an unthinkable bequest connected Bravo's Top Chef," a spokesperson for NBCUniversal said successful a June 2 statement. "Her interaction connected the Emmy, James Beard, and Critics' Choice Award-winning bid is undeniable. We are grateful to Padma for being a consummate host, judge, and enforcement producer, and for bringing her ingenuity and exceptional palate to each occurrence wherever she ate each wound of nutrient connected the bid for implicit 17 years and 19 seasons. She volition ever beryllium portion of the Top Chef and the NBCUniversal household and has a spot astatine the judges' array anytime."
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Bravo's Andy Cohen besides reacted to Padma's departure. "End of an epoch and an unthinkable run," helium wrote successful the comments of her Instagram post. "You were specified an astonishing spouse and a BRILLIANT host."
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