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Charles Curtis

Top Chef fans are crushed Padma Lakshmi will no longer host

None of us can imagine Top Chef without Padma Lakshmi at the helm, telling contestants to please pack their knives and go (or sharing in the joy of who wins a season of the reality cooking competition).

But that’s what we’ll all have to deal with. Because on Friday, Lakshmi took to social media and informed the world she “made the difficult decision to leave Top Chef.”

“I feel it’s time to move on and need to make space for Taste the Nation, my books and other creative pursuits,” she wrote.

Here’s the statement, followed by fans who were crushed by the news:

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