Curtis Stone

Curtis Travis Stone (born 4 November 1975) is an Australian celebrity chef, author, and television personality.

Beginning in May 2006, Stone hosted Take Home Chef on TLC in the United States, which went on to become an international hit for TLC.

On American television Stone appears regularly on NBC's Today.

His second appearance in 2007 featured him visiting the home of host Meredith Vieira to teach her how to cook, as her children had complained that she did not know how.

Stone has been the fresh food and recipes ambassador for Coles Supermarkets in Australia since 2010.

Stone was born in Melbourne, Victoria.

Stone began cooking with his paternal grandmother, Maude, at the age of four.

His father, Bryan Stone, is an accountant, and his mother, Lorraine, is a florist; they separated when Stone was 2 years old.

Stone attended an all-boys high school where he took home economics class and then went on to a commercial cookery apprenticeship at a vocational school.

Stone studied for a Bachelor of Business before deciding to pursue a career as a chef.

He worked in Australian restaurants before leaving to work in London, where he debuted his cooking career at age 18 at the Savoy Hotel.

Upon completing his qualifications as a chef, Stone began cooking under Marco Pierre White at the Café Royal and Mirabelle, and went on to become head chef at White's Quo Vadis.

Stone returned briefly to Australia to make the travelling cooking show Surfing the Menu (on ABC) with another chef, Ben O'Donoghue.

Stone has appeared on a number of cooking programmes in the UK, including Dinner in a Box, Good Food Live and Saturday Kitchen.

He also hosted the first season of My Restaurant Rules in Australia.

Stone was a candidate on The Celebrity Apprentice 3, which premiered in March 2010 and was the third installment to the celebrity version of The Apprentice.

The show premiered on 14 March 2010, and Stone was fired on 16 May 2010, placing fourth out of 14 contestants.

On the same day (16 May 2010), Stone was co-host of Miss USA 2010.

Stone has also made appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

In June 2010, producers of NBC's new series America's Next Great Restaurant announced that Stone would join the judging and investment panel on alongside Bobby Flay, Steve Ells and Lorena Garcia.

On 14 January 2011, Stone co-hosted the fourth hour of Today with Hoda Kotb.

He has also appeared on Martha Stewart's show Martha, Access Hollywood, Lopez Tonight, The Nate Berkus Show, The Talk, The Chew, and Rachael Ray.

On 7 June 2011, Curtis was a guest on Conan, where he taught Conan O'Brien how to prepare the perfect date night meal.

Stone has appeared on Food Network's Iron Chef America in the episode "Battle Skipjack Tuna", where he lost to Iron Chef Bobby Flay.

Stone has also appeared on several episodes of The Biggest Loser.

Stone appeared on a segment of Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure, a four-day television event that aired in January 2011.

The first season aired in 2011 directly followed by the fourth edition of The Celebrity Apprentice, where Stone made a guest appearance on the first episode.

In 2011, Stone became host of the third season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters, replacing Kelly Choi.

In January 2012, Bravo announced Stone would co-host a new culinary reality show called Around the World in 80 Plates with fellow celebrity chef Cat Cora.

The series, which premiered in May 2012, follows 12 chefs competing in a culinary race across 10 countries in 44 days.

In August 2012, Stone appeared in an episode of MasterChef Australia All-Stars.

Stone also hosted and anchored the judges' table for the Top Chef franchise's spin-off edition, Top Chef Duels, in 2014.

Stone began hosting Kitchen Inferno in 2014 and mentored Food Network's debut culinary competition, All Star Academy, in 2015.

He returned to MasterChef in May 2015 for a MasterClass alongside Marco Pierre White.

He appeared on the network again in summer 2015 for two episodes of the show Guilty Pleasures.

In 2015, Stone also made an appearance on the second season of Celebrity Family Feud.

In 2017, Stone co-hosted the FOX reality cooking series My Kitchen Rules.

Stone has previously appeared in the original Australian version of the program.

In 2019, Stone's series Field Trip with Curtis Stone began on PBS.

In 2021, Stone was a judge on the first season of Crime Scene Kitchen, and was also the red team's chef's table guest diner during the second dinner service in Hell's Kitchen's twentieth season.