Tom Colicchio For NY Marriage Equality

Tom Colicchio To Ride On Bear Float For 2011 LA Pride

From Eater:

Chef and Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio is a big gay hypermasculine icon, especially popular with the bears, so much so that he's apparently agreed to ride on a bear float in next year's Los Angeles Pride parade, reports the Dallas Voice.

Colicchio told them, "I was on Andy Cohen's show on Bravo [Watch What Happens] and said I was mad at the bear community: The gay Pride parade was going on, and no one had asked me to be on a float." Soon thereafter, the show was flooded with phone calls, including the editor of A Bear's Life magazine who helped set it all up.

BTW - Colicchio is straight. Via Towleroad

Tom Colicchio On Super Bowl Telecast

Top Chef Papa Bear Tom Colicchio will be one of the approximately 853 co-hosts of the Super Bowl Pre-Show tomorrow on NBC (along with Keith Olbermann, Matt Lauer, and many others). Tom will be judging a cooking competition between former NFL superstars Tiki Barber and Jerome "The Bus" Bettis.


Project Runway fans might remember Tiki Barber (above) as a guest judge on Season Four. He appeared during the infamous menswear challenge - which my buddy Jack Mackenroth won, and Carmen (like the opera) Webber (like the grill) sent out a shirtless model and was sent home.


Personally, I have always thought that former Pittsburgh Steeler Jerome "The Bus" Bettis was HOT. Look at that rock of a man (above) - I wouldn't mind taking a climb on that mountain. Athough Jerome has never been a Daddy of the Day - like Tiki was.

Maybe during their Super Bowl cook-off, Tiki and The Bus will make a Bacon Man - which I just read about on Dlisted. And YES, I realize this is my second bacon post in two days...




Mmmmmm ... BACON ...

White Meat Monday Hero: Tom Colicchio

Not only is he everyone's favorite PapaBear Top Chef judge - Tom Colicchio is a true hero. Joan Nathan, a cookbook author, found herself choking on a piece of chicken at an Inaugural dinner party recently. Luckily, Colicchio was standing beside her and applied the Heimlich maneuver - thus saving her life. Read the entire story HERE.

I wonder if Chef Tom accused Nathan of not "honoring the protein" after choking on it??


Thanks to Kayce for the tip.

Chef Tom Colicchio Taken To Court

Everyone's favorite Top Chef PapaBear - Tom Colicchio - was sued this week by a waitress who claims Tom and his Craft restaurants misappropriated tips and failed to pay earned wages. Read the story from the New York Times HERE.


Thanks to Blogging Top Chef for the heads up.