Nikki Martin (legal name Nicole Heaps)[1][2][3] is an American lifestyle TV personality, author and celebrity chef, currently based in Los Angeles, California.
After a few television shows, movie appearances and a short stint at Harvard University, she decided her path was in lifestyle TV and the culinary arts.
In 2010, Martin auditioned for a Food Network show to begin her new career as a celebrity chef and lifestyle TV personality.
[5] Martin has appeared on numerous television shows, including Titus, Scrubs and Birds of Prey; as well as films like Sorority Boys and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
She originally used the tagline “girl-on-grill”,[9][note 1] but because Food Network president Bob Tuschman found the double entendre to be too risqué,[10] she subsequently started calling herself “the grill next door”.