In Food Network’s latest competition series Last Bite Hotel, Premiering Tuesday, September 24 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Eight chefs are invited to a remote hotel to play a game of ingenuity and creativity. Each chef is tasked by the hotel manager with fulfilling the culinary desires of the hotel’s VIP guests and is only allowed to bring 13 ingredients for the entire stay. Cooking skills are not enough to make it to the finish line, as ingenuity and calculated risks are required to survive and cook another day. Emmy® and SAG-nominated actor, musician and author Titus Burgess As a host and hotel manager, he brings secrets, intrigue and his dry, dark humor into play and delivers witty sayings and challenges in his very own way.
As the game progresses, each challenge completed means that precious ingredients become scarce and the risk of contestants being banished to the dreaded Room 13 increases. As contestants are eliminated, they leave their remaining ingredients to select remaining challengers, making strategy and alliances a crucial part of surviving the competition.
“Last Bite Hotel takes the ingenuity of culinary creativity to a whole new level. The prized ingredients are carefully selected before the chefs even set foot in the kitchen,” said Betsy Ayala, Head of Content, Food. “The twists and turns of the competition are made even more exciting by the macabre playfulness of the incredibly talented Tituss Burgess as the hotel manager.”
Participants in the six-part season include Brittany Anderson (Richmond, Virginia), Gabriella Baldwin(Detroit, Michigan), Graham Campbell (Edinburg, Texas), Tobias Dorzon (Baltimore, MD), Byron Gomez (Denver, Colorado), Kevin Lee (Oklahoma, OK), Nini Nguyen (New Orleans, LA) and Aarthi Sampath (New York, NY.) VIP guest judges checking into the hotel include Esther Choi, Cat Cora, Jose Garces, Alex Guarnaschelli, Judy Joo, Poppy O’Toole, Marcus Samuelsson, Michael Symon, And Andrew Zimmern.
Fans can enter the mysterious hotel that Tituss runs as he reveals some of the surprises that await the chefs. They can also be the first to see what each contestant packed in their suitcase and hear from the VIP guests checking in for dinner. Fans on social media can also join in using #LastBiteHotel.
Award-winning actor and musician Tituss Burgess has quickly become one of the most versatile and dynamic artists in entertainment. His work in television, film and theater has earned him acclaim from both critics and audiences. Tituss has starred in Emmy, SAG and Critics’ Choice nominated series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtand appeared in the musical Schmigadoon!, Films Furnish And Dolemit is my nameand Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect. Tituss is an accomplished voice actor and has appeared in animated series, Central Park, for which he was nominated for his sixth Emmy Award, and will next lend his voice to a character in the upcoming animated film BanishedTituss had previously directed the musical adaptation of The Preacher’s Wife at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta with an original score written by himself and returned to Broadway, where he starred in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Burgess, a veteran of the stage, made his Broadway debut as Eddie in Good vibrations and played Hal Miller in Jersey BoysBeautiful-Beautiful Johnson in Boys and Dollsand Sebastian in The Little Mermaid. He also created and played in Center of the YOUniverse.
Last Bite Hotel is produced by Butternut Media for Food Network.
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