As Top Chef prepares to serve up another season, things will be looking a little different. Longtime host Padma Lakshmi will be leaving ahead of Season 21, and Top Chef: Seattle winner Kristen Kish will take her place. Lakshmi previously got real about the reasons why she left, noting it was “a whole lot of complex factors” like the popularity and the work. Now, she’s opening up about what she will and won’t miss about the Bravo cooking show.
Beginning in the second season, Padma Lakshmi took up the hosting mantle, replacing Season 1 host Katie Lee. Since then, she’s been the host and one of the judges. It’s taken up much of her life in the last 17 years, and she admitted on Good Morning America just what she will and won't miss about the show, and it completely makes sense:
