In Top chef, Philippe Etchebest takes care to support his candidates throughout the adventure on M6 and even after. The famous Bordeaux chef has hired Charline, winner ofTop Chef Objective in 2020, at Fourth wall and recruited Camille Maury, who won the prep show in 2018 for her new restaurant. Hélène Darroze’s sidekick, Paul Pairet and now Glenn Viel in the Six’s culinary competition should also have worked with a former winner of Top chef, but the latter failed him, as revealed by our colleagues from The voice of the North.
Camille Delcroix marked the ninth season of the program, in 2018. He emerged victorious, thanks to his talents as a chef but also to the precious advice of his coach Philippe Etchebest. The star of the kitchen thus wished to continue the adventure by offering a position in his new establishment which was to open in Bordeaux in spring 2020 but which is behind schedule. “I have known about this project for a long time. Philippe Etchebest offered it to me even before I was in the final of Top chef. For two years, we have been working on the plans. It’s been thinking for a while“, revealed Camille Delcroix, who also officiates in Top Chef Objective next to the chef, to The voice of the North in October 2020.
I wasn’t sure how he would take it …
But eventually, his plans changed. The winner of Top chef 2018 has become the dad of an adorable little girl, her priorities change. He then wanted to open his own restaurant with his partner Carla. It is in the native region of his beautiful, in Saint-Omer to be precise, that he launched his business. The establishment called Bacôve opened its doors on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. There is therefore no longer any question of joining Chef Etchebest’s brigade. And we had to tell him the news … “I called him on December 31st to tell him I won’t be coming. I wasn’t sure how he would take it“, admits Camille Delcroix. Finally, Philippe Etchebest has”perfectly understood“this choice as indicated by our colleagues.
It must be said that this is not the first time that a candidate of Top chef the plant. Bruno Aubin, seen in season 11 in 2021 and the star’s former intern, had already declined a job offer from Philippe Etchebest. “I could have worked for him because at the end of my internship he offered me a job. I had refused because I was a little too young, I favored studies. But I always said to myself that if he opened something in Paris, why not work there “, he told us exclusively last March.