Anne W. Burrell (born September 21, 1969) is an American chef, television personality, and former instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education.
She is the host of the Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and co-host of Worst Cooks in America.
In 2015, Burrell won the fourth installment of the Chopped All-Stars tournament winning $75,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
[3] She attended Canisius College in Buffalo and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English and Communications in 1991.
[3] A year later, Burrell enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America, eventually graduating in 1996 with an Associate in Occupational Studies (A.O.S.).
She later became the executive chef of Centro Vinoteca,[5] an Italian restaurant in New York City's West Village area which opened in 2007.
In 2010, Burrell and Chef Beau MacMillan hosted a Food Network reality series named Worst Cooks in America.
[15] Burrell hosted an 11-day Food Network cruise throughout the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic aboard the brand new Celebrity Silhouette in late 2011.
[17][18] Burrell released a statement in 2012 confirming that she had been in a relationship with her girlfriend, chef Koren Grieveson, for two years after cookbook author Ted Allen seemingly outed her on a radio show.
[19] On December 31, 2012, Burrell publicly tweeted that she was engaged to Koren Grieveson,[21][22] but as of 2018, she was dating Stuart Claxton.