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Anne Burrell, Renowned TV Chef and Coach on ‘Worst Cooks in America,’ Passes Away at 55

    Anne Burrell, TV chef who coached the 'Worst Cooks in America,' dies at 55
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    NEW YORK – Anne Burrell, the TV chef known for guiding culinary novices in “Worst Cooks in America,” passed away on Tuesday at her residence in New York. She was 55.

    The Food Network, where Burrell launched her television career two decades ago on “Iron Chef America” and appeared on additional programs, confirmed her passing. The cause of death was not immediately known, and an autopsy was planned by medical examiners.

    Authorities responded to her address before 8 a.m. on Tuesday and discovered an unresponsive woman, later pronounced dead. While the police did not disclose the woman’s identity, records confirm it was Burrell’s address.

    Burrell was on TV screens as recently as April, making chicken Milanese cutlets topped with escarole salad in one of her many appearances on NBC’s “Today” show. She faced off against other top chefs on the Food Network’s “House of Knives” earlier in the spring.

    “Anne was a remarkable person and culinary talent — teaching, competing and always sharing the importance of food in her life and the joy that a delicious meal can bring,” the network said in a statement.

    Known for her bold and flavorful but not overly fancy dishes, and for her spiky platinum-blonde hairdo, Burrell and various co-hosts on “Worst Cooks in America” led teams of kitchen-challenged people through a crash course in savory self-improvement.

    On the first show in 2010, contestants presented such unlikely personal specialties as cayenne pepper and peanut butter on cod, and penne pasta with sauce, cheese, olives and pineapple. The accomplished chefs had to taste the dishes to evaluate them, and it was torturous, Burrell confessed in an interview with The Tampa Tribune at the time.

    Still, Burrell persisted through 27 seasons, making her last appearance in 2024.

    “If people want to learn, I absolutely love to teach them,” she said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in 2020. “It’s just them breaking bad habits and getting out of their own way.”

    Burrell was born Sept. 21, 1969, in the central New York town of Cazenovia, where her parents ran a flower store. She earned an English and communications degree from Canisius University and went on to a job as a headhunter but hated it, she said in a 2008 interview with The Post-Standard of Syracuse.

    Having always loved cooking, she soon enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America, for which she later taught. She graduated in 1996, spent a year at an Italian culinary school and then worked in upscale New York City restaurants for a time.

    “Anytime Anne Burrell gets near hot oil, I want to be around,” Frank Bruni, then-food critic at the New York Times, enthused in a 2007 review.

    By the next year, Burrell was hosting her own Food Network show, “Secrets of a Restaurant Chef,” and her TV work became a focus. Over the years she also wrote two cookbooks, “Cook Like a Rock Star” and “Own Your Kitchen: Recipes to Inspire and Empower,” and was involved with food pantries, juvenile diabetes awareness campaigns and other charities.

    Burrell’s own tastes, she said, ran simple. She told The Post-Standard her favorite food was bacon and her favorite meal was her mother’s tuna fish sandwich.

    “Cooking is fun,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be scary. It’s creating something nurturing.”

    Survivors include her husband, Stuart Claxton, whom she married in 2021, and his son, her mother and her two siblings.

    “Anne’s light radiated far beyond those she knew, touching millions across the world,” the family said in a statement released by the Food Network.

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