Bravo's version of reality TV hits on a formula that's like crack to me: take a topic that's of vague interest to women, gay men, and hipsters in general, find someone who's made a capital-N Name for him or herself in the field, find someone else who likewise crawled to the top, through her amply-on-display-bitchiness, rotate in a few celebrity guest-judges, either from the world in question or the world at large, and top it off with a hot hostess who has some tangential connection with the proceedings.
The one place this fails for me is Top Chef. There, the hostess is a supermodel-stunner, Padma Lakshmi. Yes, I like Padma - she married Salman Rushdie, after all - but I have a hard time believing she eats enough foie gras to weigh in on it with any degree of expertise.
Still, with Padma, I was willing to give some leeway - after all, the lady's all curves, a sure sign that she probably eats SOMETHING on occasion, in stark contrast to the majority of her fellow-models.
Kelly Choi, however, hostess of "Top Chef: Masters," is another story.
The woman is so thin that she looks like a bobble-head. I bet I could fit my hands around her ribcage twice. Her body type reminds me of the South Park episode where they draw starving Africans.
This immediately places her credentials in question, a much bigger problem since this is the self-titled "Masters" version of the show, (read: the version where every single contestant is a world-class chef) where the judges should be, if anything, more discerning. The original Top Chef is like a competition amongst grad students. On "Masters," it's about choosing between food Einsteins and food Stephen Hawkings; doing so requires more than a working knowledge of physics, if you know what I'm saying.
I get that they need eye-candy, but if that's all the hostess was supposed to be, they could have done WAY better. Sure, I don't buy that Cindy Crawford would qualify as an expert on all-things-edible, either, but it would be a LOT more fun (and a lot less like witnessing the moment of first-contact) watching her do it.
-Posted by Jilly
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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