'Top Chef Masters': Who'd be in your dream cast?

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'Top Chef Masters': Who'd be in your dream cast?

Feb 11, 2009, 03:57 PM | by Annie Barrett
Categories: Food and Drink, Reality TV

Bravo's announced some more details on Top Chef Masters, the spin-off slated to air this fall. The premise: Twenty-four contestants will compete in a series of weekly events -- "a twist on the classic quickfire challenge" and "a more involved elimination challenge" -- until one person's left with the title of...Top Chef. [Dramatic pause.] MASTER. Kelly Choi (pictured, right), host of NYC TV's weekly restaurant show Eat Out NY (and a former EW editorial assistant, I just discovered) will host Masters. New York Magazine food critic Gael Greene, culinary expert James Oseland, and British journalist Jay Rayner will join the judges' panel. So...pretty much the exact same thing as Top Chef, then. As your Top Chef TV Watch recapper Kate Ward just put it in an e-mail, "It's like taking Runway, adding professionals, and replacing Heidi with Cindy Crawford and Tim Gunn with Tim Curry, or something." Okay, I'd totally watch that. But I'd likely be oh-so-very alone.
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