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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRead more<\/span><\/svg><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnne Burrell\u2019s final season of Worst Cooks in America<\/em> has officially premiered on the Food Network, only weeks after her shocking death aged 55.<\/p>\nDays after Burrell was found dead in her home in Brooklyn, New York, in June, Food Network announced plans to pay tribute to her \u2014 including by airing her final season of Worst Cooks in America, <\/em>with the 29th season titled: Worst Cooks in America: Talented and Terrible. <\/em><\/p>\nOn the show, chefs and mentors step in to help transform amateur cooks into culinary experts. Season 29 will see Burrell and her co-host, chef Gabe Bertaccini, manage their teams of amateur chefs, with one contestant eliminated from each episode of the season. The last amateur cook standing will be declared the winner and receive $25,000 in the season finale. <\/p>\n
The episode began without an acknowledgement of Burrell\u2019s death, which some fans took issue with.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow could you even start this show without even acknowledging Anne Burrell’s passing? I am shocked,\u201d one viewer wrote on X.<\/p>\n
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Chef Anne Burrell prepares a dish at the Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\u201cSad that Anne Burrell’s \u2018signature\u2019 show was Worst Chefs. It’s a circus and not even watchable. She was an ACTUAL chef,\u201d someone else wrote, adding, \u201cTo even televise this s*** is an insult.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVery demeaning. She deserved better,\u201d another viewer agreed.<\/p>\n
Following tonight\u2019s season premiere, new episodes of the season will air every subsequent Monday on the Food Network. Each episode will be available the following Tuesday on HBO Max. Reports indicate that there will be a weekly tribute to Burrell as the season continues to air.<\/p>\n
And according to Bertaccini, this season of Worst Cooks in America <\/em>was extremely important to Burrell. <\/p>\n\u201c[She] was so invested in it,\u201d he told People<\/em> in June. \u201cIt was her baby. She wasn\u2019t there for the paycheck.\u201d<\/p>\nBurrell hosted the show for 27 seasons, from 2010 to 2024. However, she was absent from season 28, which aired its season finale in February. In a January Instagram post, Burrell addressed her absence from the season. <\/p>\n
Replying to one fan asking why she wasn\u2019t hosting, Burrell wrote: \u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
In June, first responders arrived at Burrell\u2019s home in Brooklyn after a 911 call reported a cardiac arrest. When medics arrived, she was found unresponsive.<\/p>\n
A few days later, her death was being investigated as a possible drug overdose by the New York City Police Department, according to an internal document seen by The New York Times<\/em>. The document said Burrell was \u201cdiscovered in the shower unconscious and unresponsive, surrounded by approximately (100) assorted pills.\u201d<\/p>\nHowever, the New York City medical examiner’s office confirmed in late July <\/em>that the chef\u2019s death has been ruled a suicide, more specifically, \u201cacute intoxication due to the combined effects of diphenhydramine, ethanol, cetirizine, and amphetamine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. Your support makes all the difference. Read more Anne Burrell\u2019s final season of Worst Cooks in America has officially premiered on the Food Network, only weeks after her shocking death aged 55. Days after Burrell was found dead in her home in Brooklyn, New York, in June, Food Network announced plans to pay tribute to her \u2014 including by airing her final season of Worst Cooks in America, with the 29th season titled: Worst Cooks in America: Talented and Terrible. On the show, chefs and mentors step in to help transform amateur cooks into culinary experts. Season 29 will see Burrell and her co-host, chef Gabe Bertaccini, manage their teams of amateur chefs, with one contestant eliminated from each episode of the season. The last amateur cook standing will be declared the winner and receive $25,000 in the season finale. The episode began without an acknowledgement of Burrell\u2019s death, which some fans took issue with. \u201cHow could you even start this show without even acknowledging Anne Burrell’s passing? I am shocked,\u201d one viewer wrote on X. Chef Anne Burrell prepare…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}