After winning “Top Chef” in June 2024 as a guest chef, the two-Michelin-starred chef and winner of season 2 of the M6 show is back as a juror for this 16th season.
Stéphanie Le Quellec is back for a new season of Top Chef. After winning the show in June 2024 as guest chef, the two-Michelin-starred chef and winner of season 2 of the M6 competition in 2011 will be back as a juror for a 16th season, for which filming has started. this Monday October 14 in Paris.
Stéphanie Le Quellec thus becomes the fifth juror of the competition and will officiate this year alongside Hélène Darroze, Philippe Etchebest, Glenn Viel and Paul Pairet, reports Le Parisien.
“I’m very happy to be back. (…) When the broadcast was over, the production asked me if I wanted to do another season, I said yes, it happened naturally,” she confides. -she to the Parisian.
Jorick Dorignac recruited by Stéphanie Le Quellec
Last June, it was Jorick Dorignac, 29, who won the 15th season of Top Chef. Until then executive chef of the NE/SO restaurant in Paris (1 Michelin star), he had, thanks to his victory, been recruited by Stéphanie Le Quellec.
He is now executive chef of the Maisons Le Quellec group which brings together three addresses: the restaurants La Scène (two stars) and Vive, maison mer, as well as the MAM patisserie.
For this new season of Top Chef, Stéphanie Le Quellec hopes once again to “meet the right candidate” in order to maintain her winning streak. “I want to keep the title. I hope to meet the right candidate to achieve this and, above all, to experience such a wonderful human encounter,” she concludes.
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