Did Alabama’s Roscoe Hall make the first cut on ‘Top Chef’?
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No one wants to be the first contestant eliminated on a reality TV show.
But that’s exactly what happened to Alabama’s Roscoe Hall on the Season 18 premiere of “Top Chef.”
Hall, a Birmingham resident and the culinary director for Post Office Pies, was one of 15 chefs featured on Thursday’s episode of the Bravo series. That makes him part of a prestigious crew, chosen to display his skills and talents for a national audience and the show’s three primary judges: Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons.
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