They were fifteen in the running in the thirteenth season of Top chef, to hope to succeed Mohamed Cheikh, big winner of the previous edition. Since then, Elliott Van de Velde, Renaud Ramamourty, Tania Cadeddu, Logan Depuydt as well as Elis Bond have been eliminated. Among the ten candidates still in the race, one lived through difficult months just before joining the cast. Near Entertainment TVhe tells.
Not everyone fights on equal terms on the set of Top chef. Arnaud Delvenne can attest to this. In the columns of the magazine, he recounts having undergone an operation shortly before entering the competition. “When my mother died ten years ago, I filled the gap with food. I had arrived at 117 kilos! I had surgery at the end of April, the filming of the competition began in October“, he confides, revealing in passing that he has lost more than 50 kilos. An impressive weight loss thanks to this operation, but not only. Arnaud Delvenne was forced to embark on a food rebalancing. Not the best time to participate in Top chef… “It was complicated because I was still learning to eat again“, he recalls.
He went from 117 kilos to 65 kilos in just a few months. A huge change for him, which is particularly apparent in his cuisine. In his portrait revealed by M6, it was indicated that the recipes of Arnaud Delvenne have also changed completely. “This spectacular weight loss completely changes his vision of cooking. It now offers light and healthy cuisine“, we learned. During the second episode of Top Chef, he had won over the jurors with his plate of vegetable butternut ravioli with chive and goat cheese stuffing, roasted pumpkin with kumquat, butternut puree and pan-fried pumpkin seeds. This dish had also earned him to leave his solitary brigade to join that of Glenn Viel, replacing Michel Sarran.
A nice coup for this former assistant manager at Quick and prison cook now executive chef of the Van der Valk group in Belgium. It remains to be seen how far he will be able to bluff the jurors of Top chef…