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<title><![CDATA[Former 'Top Chef' finalist Sam Talbot weds in 'secret' ceremony]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:33:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ex-'Top Chef' runner-up Marcel Vigneron arrested, charged with DUI]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:07:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Former 'Top Chef' finalist Sam Talbot gets engaged to girlfriend]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Two more charged in ex-'Top Chef 2' chef Josie Smith-Malave attack]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:20:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:45:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Man charged in attack on former 'Top Chef 2' chef Josie Smith-Malave]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:09:04 -0400</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:54:55 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Top Chef 2' winner Ilan Hall and his mom go on the offensive]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<img align="center" src="https://cdn.realitytvworld.com/images/heads/gen/ilanhall_1210w.jpg" border="0" /><br><br>According to <A href="http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/ilan-hall-beats-marcel-vigneron-become-top-chef-2-champion-4645.php"><EM>Top Chef 2</EM> winner</A> Ilan&nbsp;Hall, the show's editing is to blame for the less-than-flattering impression and bad aftertaste the 24-year-old&nbsp;chef left on many of the culinary competition's home viewers.&nbsp; And if you don't believe him, then just listen to his mom.
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:19:44 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Top Chef 2' runner-up Marcel Vigneron talks about his experience]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:47:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ilan Hall beats Marcel Vigneron to become 'Top Chef 2' champion]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<img align="center" src="https://cdn.realitytvworld.com/images/heads/gen/ilanhall_1210w.jpg" border="0" /><br><br>Despite <EM>Food &amp; Wine's</EM> public statement claiming otherwise,<EM>&nbsp;</EM><A href="http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/bravo-top-chef-2-winner-prematurely-revealed-by-food-&amp;-wine-4634.php">the magazine's website spoiler</A><EM> </EM>apparently had it right all along, as 24-year-old Ilan Hall was named the winner of the second season of Bravo's <EM>Top Chef</EM> on Wednesday night, besting the culinary skills of 26-year-old Marcel Vigneron in the show's finale.
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:32:40 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bravo's 'Top Chef 2' winner prematurely revealed by 'Food & Wine?']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<img align="center" src="https://cdn.realitytvworld.com/images/heads/331.jpg" border="0" /><br><br>Has <EM>Food &amp; Wine</EM> magazine, one of <EM>Top Chef's</EM> sponsors, inadvertently&nbsp;revealed&nbsp;the reality show's&nbsp;second season winner&nbsp;by posting an interview with one of the culinary competition's two remaining finalists on its website on Monday afternoon -- two days before <EM>Top Chef 2's</EM> conclusion is scheduled to air on Bravo?
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:00:20 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Top Chef 2' finalist Marcel Vigneron assaulted by a show viewer]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Marcel Vigneron describes 'Top Chef 2's hair-raising incident]]></title>
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