He won’t be giving the cover for season 13 of Top chef. “I will no longer be part of the jury next season, M6 having decided to change the jury. Here, the adventure stops for me. (…) I will miss you but we will certainly meet again, ”announced Michel Sarran announced on Tuesday, in a short video posted on his Facebook account.
The Toulouse chef has been in the culinary competition since season 6 in 2015. According to our colleagues from Parisian, he will be replaced by Glenn Viel, chef of L’Oustau de Baumanière, a three-star restaurant, in Baux-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) Baux-de-Provence. For its part, the channel presents the new 40-year-old recruit as a “young chef prodigy with multiple inspirations and recognized as one of the most creative of his generation”.
“Top Chef makes it extremely popular”
“You have to be honest, the show has changed my life,” Michel Sarran confided to 20 minutes in 2019. When you have three million people watching you, that changes everything. The starred restaurants are known only to an informed public. It makes it extremely popular. “
The other jurors, Hélène Darroze, Paul Pairet and Phillipe Etchebest, would be renewed. The latter will be back soon on M6 for a new season ofTop Chef Objective.
The shooting of the next season of Top chef should start sometime in September.