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Season five of Top Chef may have just finished, but the drama is just beginning to brew between runner-up Carla Hall and season three runner-up, Casey Thompson.
In the season five finale, Casey lent Carla a hand in the kitchen as her sous-chef. But at judge’s table, it was Casey’s influences that placed Carla as the third runner-up.
Casey’s influences led Carla to sous vide her beef, and trade in a cheese tartlet for a cheese souffle.
While the judge’s pointed fingers at Carla for relying too much on Casey’s suggestions, Carla did step up to the plate and fess up to her mistakes.
All seemed to end well, when Hosea Rosenberg was declared the winner, but now, Casey is sounding off.
The enraged chef told Side Dish magazine, “Carla was not prepared and in over her head. The show did not talk about how the first course (crab) took her half of the friggin’ cooking time that day, I was left to work the rest of HER dishes.”
“The ONLY thing she had in mind was a cheese course! I would NEVER do a cheese course. And where in the hell did french come from!? She is not even classically trained! It (the show) didn’t talk about how I worked on a sauce for 2 days and Carla forgot to put it on the plate.”
A clearly upset Casey added that viewers at home did not get a correct idea of what really went down in the kitchen:
“It didn’t show how the 2nd course (fish) was MINE. It didn’t show how she took the sous vide idea and decided to GRILL it last minute causing it to be tough… And it didn’t show how she WANTED to do the souffles which she does not even know how to make!”
“That was HER food, because it certainly was me asking her how she wanted to do this and that while she was busy picking crab the entire time and making a souffle that didn’t rise!”
As for what may or may not have happened, Top Chef judge Toby Young tells CelebTV.com exclusively: “It’s a pretty shocking rant. The judges don’t see what goes on behind the scenes, so I don’t know if what she says is true.”
Either way, it doesn’t look like Top Chef addicts will be seeing much more of Casey. She tells Side Dish, “I am done with TC. I did not influence her. She has NO ideas of her own, oh, except a cheese course.”
5 responses To Date
1 Young Einstein • Feb 27, 2009 at 4:49 pm
The article says Casey was third runner up. Actually, she was second runner up. It goes like this — stay with me here …
1) Winner
2) 1st Runner Up
3) Second Runner Up
2 E • Mar 3, 2009 at 5:07 am
Casey…stop being a B.
3 Nadine • Mar 9, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Casey is like Nellie Olsen from Little House on the Prairie. A brat.
Casey instead of sounding off like a spoiled little child, take a page from Carla’s book and take some responsibilty for your actions.
Editing would not be the issue if you had not walked into kitchen (with your ass on your back) certain that you knew best… no, no… how about this… certain that this woman, this generous woman who was so kind to you when you were chosen as LAST sous chef, was worthless and beneath you. CASEY… you have no honor.
What you should rejoice in, though Casey, is that you are a white woman who has the right, apparently, to sound of to the listening .masses shamelessly and without couth; without being branded as a having an attitude or representing ALL WHITE WOMEN. Must be nice…
You’ll never learn. Demonic.
4 Nadine • Mar 9, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Oh and Casey (and your ever supportive fans)…
Imagine if the roles were reversed… I guarantee that the Internet, as a voice, would be more united on the issue of who f*cked up whom.
I hated you during your season, total Affirmative Action, and you sucked again this season.
Yes, please leave TC…do us all that favor.
Cheers…
5 Chad • Jul 26, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Casey is to blame.