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San Francisco Chronicle
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Anne Burrell, TV chef who coached the 'Worst Cooks in America,' dies at 55
FILE - Anne Burrell arrives at the James Beard Foundation Awards Gala on May 6, 2013, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) Andy Kropa/Andy Kropa/Invision/AP FILE - Chef Anne Burrell attends City Harvest Presents The 2025 Gala: Carnaval on April 22, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) Andy Kropa/Andy Kropa/Invision/AP FILE - Chef Anne Burrell attends the premiere of the ShowTime limited series "The Loudest Voice" on June 24, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP FILE - Chef Anne Burrell attends the premiere of the ShowTime limited series "The Loudest Voice" on June 24, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP FILE - Chef Anne Burrell attends City Harvest Presents The 2025 Gala: Carnaval, on April 22, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) Andy Kropa/Andy Kropa/Invision/AP NEW YORK (AP) — TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of 'Worst Cooks in America,' died Tuesday at her New York home. She was 55. The Food Network, where Burrell began her two-decade television career on 'Iron Chef America' and went on to other shows, confirmed her death. The cause was not immediately clear, and medical examiners were set to conduct an autopsy. Police were called to her address before 8 a.m. Tuesday and found an unresponsive woman who was soon pronounced dead. The police department did not release the woman's name, but records show it was Burell's address. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Burrell was on TV screens as recently as April, making chicken Milanese cutlets topped with escarole salad in one of her many appearances on NBC's 'Today' show. She faced off against other top chefs on the Food Network's 'House of Knives' earlier in the spring. 'Anne was a remarkable person and culinary talent — teaching, competing and always sharing the importance of food in her life and the joy that a delicious meal can bring,' the network said in a statement. Known for her bold and flavorful but not overly fancy dishes, and for her spiky platinum-blonde hairdo, Burrell and various co-hosts on 'Worst Cooks in America' led teams of kitchen-challenged people through a crash course in savory self-improvement. On the first show in 2010, contestants presented such unlikely personal specialties as cayenne pepper and peanut butter on cod, and penne pasta with sauce, cheese, olives and pineapple. The accomplished chefs had to taste the dishes to evaluate them, and it was torturous, Burrell confessed in an interview with The Tampa Tribune at the time. Still, Burrell persisted through 27 seasons, making her last appearance in 2024. Advertisement Article continues below this ad 'If people want to learn, I absolutely love to teach them,' she said on ABC's 'Good Morning America' in 2020. 'It's just them breaking bad habits and getting out of their own way.' Burrell was born Sept. 21, 1969, in the central New York town of Cazenovia, where her parents ran a flower store. She earned an English and communications degree from Canisius University and went on to a job as a headhunter but hated it, she said in a 2008 interview with The Post-Standard of Syracuse. Having always loved cooking, she soon enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America, for which she later taught. She graduated in 1996, spent a year at an Italian culinary school and then worked in upscale New York City restaurants for a time. 'Anytime Anne Burrell gets near hot oil, I want to be around,' Frank Bruni, then-food critic at the New York Times, enthused in a 2007 review. By the next year, Burrell was hosting her own Food Network show, 'Secrets of a Restaurant Chef,' and her TV work became a focus. Over the years she also wrote two cookbooks, 'Cook Like a Rock Star' and 'Own Your Kitchen: Recipes to Inspire and Empower,' and was involved with food pantries, juvenile diabetes awareness campaigns and other charities. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Burrell's own tastes, she said, ran simple. She told The Post-Standard her favorite food was bacon and her favorite meal was her mother's tuna fish sandwich. 'Cooking is fun,' she said. 'It doesn't have to be scary. It's creating something nurturing.' Survivors include her husband, Stuart Claxton, whom she married in 2021, and his son, her mother and her two siblings. 'Anne's light radiated far beyond those she knew, touching millions across the world,' the family said in a statement released by the Food Network.
Daily Mail
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Law & Order: SVU fan favorite breaks silence on possible return and where she stands with Mariska Hargitay
Stephanie March weighed in on whether or not she'd ever return to Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. She is best known for playing Assistant District Attorney Alex Cabot on the popular and long-running NBC series from 2000 to 2003 and then in special guest appearances until 2018. 'I think it would depend on the story, but they've got some good writers. Never say never, right?' March, 50, told People at the City Harvest Presents The 2025 Gala: Carnaval in New York City on Tuesday, April 22. She said that the power to bring her back may be in the hands of the show's fans. 'I guess if people still write, you could do a write-in campaign. That would be my only suggestion.' The Mr. and Mrs. Smith star also said that she catches up with her SVU co-stars on the regular. 'The good news is I get to see Chris [Meloni] and Mariska [Hargitay] and BD [Wong] and all of those other wonderful people with regularity, so that's good,' she shared. Stephanie also mentioned what she'd like to see next for her friends on the show. 'I just hope they keep their jobs like the rest of us,' she says. 'That's the most you can hope for any actor right now. Just keep ... our jobs.' March dished on the chemistry between Meloni and Hargitay's detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler. 'They're never not good,' she said. 'It's really amazing. The two of them together are fantastic. It's really unbelievable.' Even though she left SVU after season five, the show has had a major impact in her life and led her to her passion. She serves on the board of the Panzi Foundation, which is dedicated to ending the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. March is also on the board of OneKid OneWorld, which increases access, education and opportunities for women and girls in Kenya and Central America. She was inspired to join the organizations by a storyline on SVU during season 11. 'I remember it very clearly,' she said of the episode, titled Witness in which a potential witness in a rape case is reluctant to testify because she is an illegal immigrant who both witnessed and was the victim of unspeakable war crimes. 'And it was kind of stuck in my head at the time. And so I have to believe that to some degree, everything happens for a reason,' she said. 'I'm not sure that when I got the job, I intended for this to happen, but once I had the job, I became pretty deliberate about it because the subject matter I found disturbing and compelling. It was just not something I could put away when I came home at night from work.' 'I felt like my passion really was to advocate for women and girls who are survivors of sexual violence, and how sexual violence deprives us of our body autonomy and often our legal rights and our right to work. 'And it is, to me, where women and families are destroyed the most violently and the most quickly. I thought, "this is where I want to put my energy and my efforts." 'So, I became quite deliberate in my choices of how I wanted to participate and how I wanted to use my voice,' she added. 'And I have been lucky enough to find a few places where those interests intersect, and I'm very passionate about it.' Stephanie, who was formerly married to celebrity chef Bobby Flay for 10 years, married her current husband, financial advisor Dan Benton, 58, in 2017. The couple were introduced by a mutual friend in October 2015. 'They met for cocktails at the West Village bar Orient Express and had dinner afterwards,' a friend dished to People. 'But their first real date was a TED Talk [of educator Sal Khan of the Khan Academy] after which they talked for four hours. 'Dan adores her and supports her,' the friend added. They dated for a month before he proposed on July 24, 2017, the day after Stephanie's 43rd birthday, while they were on vacation in Greece. They tied the knot on September 1 at their home in Katonah, New York, surrounded by family and a few close friends.
