Padma Lakshmi remains to be rooting for High Chef after departing the present.
“I watched the primary couple of episodes and it was a bit odd,” Lakshmi, 53, instructed Us Weekly completely on the Gold Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday, Might 11. “However everyone I like is on that present. So I’m rooting for them.”
Lakshmi confirmed her assist for Kristen Kish, who changed her because the host, including, “It’s a home I helped construct, and I would like them to succeed. I feel Kristen will discover her footing, and I feel she’s doing nice.”
Regardless of making the choice to maneuver on, Lakshmi mentioned it nonetheless felt “bizarre” to not be concerned. “However I can see all these individuals anytime I would like,” she mentioned about sustaining an in depth bond with the present’s forged and crew. “I don’t should be on set to do it.”
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Lakshmi introduced her exit in June 2023, shortly earlier than the season 20 finale aired.
“After a lot soul looking out, I’ve made the tough determination to depart High Chef,” she wrote through Instagram on the time. “Having accomplished a wonderful twentieth season as host and govt producer, I’m extraordinarily proud to have been a part of constructing such a profitable present and of the impression it has had within the worlds of tv and meals. After 17 years, lots of the forged and crew are like household to me and I’ll miss working alongside them dearly.”
In her assertion, Lakshmi acknowledged that she was wanting ahead to “different artistic pursuits.”
“Different complicated components went into me simply being completed with High Chef, which we don’t have time to enter right here,” she famous on Selection’s “Awards Circuit” podcast two months later. “However I feel I simply thought, ‘If I’m feeling this fashion, then I’ve acquired to belief my intestine.’ I’ve additionally acquired to make room in my life and my schedule for brand spanking new issues to bubble up.”
Lakshmi mentioned quite a bit went into stepping away after internet hosting the Bravo competitors collection for 17 years.
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“I had been on location for eight months out of the yr. And after I wasn’t on location, I used to be in pre- and post-production for each my exhibits,” she defined about High Chef and her Hulu collection, Style the Nation. “And I used to be edits of 1 present whereas on the set of one other present. It was simply exhausting and untenable for me to proceed that method.”
Since her departure, Lakshmi has remained targeted on her ardour tasks such because the Gold Gala, which celebrates essentially the most impactful Asian Pacific changemakers in tradition and society who mix trade greatness with societal good.
“I like this group. I feel it’s actually a beautiful group that they’ve constructed that we didn’t have earlier than. I’ve by no means been to this ball however I’ve definitely seen the images, and it looks like it’s loads of enjoyable,” she shared with Us on Saturday. “So I had loads of enjoyable designing the menu for this night, and I’m a bit nervous as a result of it’s a 250-person dinner. However we wished to deal with simply actually recent components and South Indian meals and make it hyper particular.”
With reporting by Lanae Brody
