Bravo has announced it has renewed Top Chef for a seventh season and is launching casting calls for the reality culinary competition's new edition.
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While the network isn't confirming her participation yet, Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi doesn't appear to expect her newly-announced "medical miracle" pregnancy to prevent her from hosting the seventh season.
"During the course of filming Top Chef, I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes," she told People in New York on Monday. "Now I'll just need three: my fat size, my skinny size and my super size."
Top Chef's renewal comes as little surprise given the show currently ranks as the top-rated series at the now Project Runway-less network. Top Chef: Las Vegas -- the show's currently-airing sixth edition -- has averaged 3.26 million total viewers and 2.29 million viewers in the Adults 18-49 demographic since it premiered in late August.
Top Chef's seventh-season casting calls will begin on October 18 in San Francisco and continue through November 15 with additional stops in Miami, Chicago, Washington, New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles.
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The dates and locations of Top Chef's seventh-season casting tour are:
San Francisco
Sunday, October 18, 10AM-2PM
The Parlor
Miami
Sunday, October 25, 10AM-2PM
Club 50 at Viceroy Miami
Chicago
Monday, October 26, 10AM-2PM
Wells on Wells
Washington D.C.
Wednesday, November 4, 10AM-2PM
Occidental Grill & Seafood at Willard InterContinental Hotel
New York
Sunday, November 8, 10AM-2PM
CraftSteak
Dallas
Wednesday, November 11, 10AM-2PM
Abacus
Los Angeles
Sunday, November 15, 10AM-2PM
Craft Restaurant
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