Excluded. Top Chef: last season for Hélène Darroze? She answers !

Present in Top chef since 2015, Hélène Darroze has not had a brigade this year, but has taken charge of a secret competition between eliminated candidates. An upheaval that questions his future on the show. Tele-Leisure asked him the question.

After the coronations of David Gallienne, Mohamed Cheikh and Louise Bourrat, Helene Darroze is once again the favorite as a brigade leader in Top chef. So inevitably, to spice things up a bit, the 55-year-old chef decided to “leave with a slight disability” by not having an assigned brigade at the start. But the native of the Landes is given another mission: to propose a secret competition between eliminated in order to return with a candidate in the quarter-finals against the foals of Philippe Etchebest, Paul Pairet and Glenn Viel.

Hélène Darroze absent from Top chef next season? She answers !

Delighted with this new challenge, Hélène Darroze claims to have had a lot of fun in this parallel, more confidential competition, which allowed her to “doing his job as a coach with almost everyone“Especially since there was a time constraint since the event took place in one hour,”like a last chance“.”That’s the only thing that frustrated me a bit.“, she told us. “It was necessary to go straight to the point, that I understand them immediately“, she explained. Less present on the air – at least in the first part of the evening –, Is Hélène Darroze thus preparing for her departure from the show? “No, I do not think so“, she assured us with a burst of laughter. And to add: “But you have to ask M6 Also.“

Hélène Darroze, very soon on American television!

If season 14 of Top chef kicks off Wednesday, March 1, the US version of the cooking contest begins the following week (March 9) on Bravo. To celebrate its twentieth edition, US Top Chef launched an All-Stars version with winners from various versions around the world. And it’s Samuel Albert, winner of season 10, who will represent France. If the competition took place in London, it was in Paris that the final was shot last June. And cocorico, Hélène Darroze was invited to designate the big winner, alongside the initial jurors. “I told myself that it was only in France that there was a super level because I am a bit chauvinistic, but in fact not at all…“, she told us, enthusiastic. For the moment, no French broadcast has been announced for this four-star version.

Find our interview with Hélène Darroze in issue 1930 of Tele-Leisureon newsstands this Monday, February 20.