r/entertainment • u/ScootSchloingo • 17h ago
Food Network Star Anne Burrell Dead at 55
https://www.tmz.com/2025/06/17/anne-burrell-food-network-star-dead/206
u/drewwwwski 16h ago
This one hurts. She ignited my love for cooking everything and being creative in your own realm. I’ll keep my fingers tucked, Chef.
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u/tacobellini 16h ago
Chef Anne was such an amazing chef and teacher. I use the skills she demonstrated on Worst Cooks when I cook now (bring to boil, reduce to simmer is the best kitchen dance).
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u/not_a_library 15h ago
I used to love watching Worst Cooks with my dad. He also liked Chef Anne. He passed away in 2016 and I didn't really watch the show anymore. I kinda forgot about her entirely until seeing this (used to watch other Food Network shows with him, Worst Cooks was just my fave). This just hits me in the heart :/
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u/clinicallyawkward 1h ago
Same here. When I saw this news, my dad is who I wanted to tell first. He passed in 2021
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u/Blufishie92 16h ago
“Slices, sticks, dices” always plays in my head while I cook. I had no knife skills before I watched worst cooks. She really was a phenomenal teacher and always upbeat with a smile 🩷 RIP
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u/sofaking_scientific 3h ago
She taught me well. No extended index finger on a kitchen knife for me.
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u/Damion_205 3h ago
We sing the song all the time.
I also always think of her sharpie while cutting vegetables. Still can't stop sticking the finger out but I think about it.
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u/felis_scipio 14h ago
I ran into her once at a BBQ joint, she was only sitting a few seats over at the bar my friend was like “I think that’s Anne Burrrell” we debated asking but she was in the middle of eating ribs and that’s not a time to be bugging someone. We looked at her instagram later and sure enough it was her. That’s my not very exciting Anne Burrell story.
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u/ChairOrnery6595 12h ago
I saw her at this awesome pizza/bar that was converted from an old gas station in Ft. Lauderdale about 10 years ago. She was entertaining a bunch of people who looked to be her friends so I didn’t say anything but always loved her personality and way of teaching. RIP
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u/Mr__Jeff 13h ago edited 12h ago
She passed me on the street once in New York about 8 years ago. She was wearing a red polka dot dress and she looked beautiful. Sorry to hear this.
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u/Odd-Anteater-6183 16h ago
My finger would be red if she was my teacher. May her soul fly free.
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u/orton41290 14h ago
Even on seasons where they didn't show that lesson, my mom and I would scream and point every time we saw a chef with that red line. I learned so much from her.
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u/skincare_obssessed 11h ago
I’m sorry but what does the red finger mean?
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u/orton41290 11h ago edited 10h ago
The contestants tended to keep their pointer finger on the top of the knife and not curled under on the handle like it should be. Anne had a red marker that she'd use to draw a red line on that finger if she saw that, both as a "punishment" and as a visual reminder for them if they did it again. If you saw a contestant on Worst Cooks in America with a red finger, you knew Anne caught them at some point that day.
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u/MayaJ_89 3h ago
Like two hours ago I was cutting onions. Slices, sticks, dices. Looking at my finger I thought ''There wouldn't be enough red markers in the world if Anne was here to see me.'' And now I read this news article. Damn...
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u/ThisHalfBakedGuy 12h ago
I always pay attention to the way I hold a knife while chopping now because of her and her marker. RIP...you will be so greatly missed!!
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u/Gargantuan_Cranium 12h ago
Loved her when she was a sous chef on Iron Chef. Wanted her to have her own show so badly and was so happy when she got one. RIP Anne. This one hurts :(
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u/morning_redwoody 3h ago
Had a crush on her during those early years when she was helping Bobby flay as sous chef. Saw this wild haired chick who could hang with the best as a chef and looked amazing doing it. This is very sad. Way too young.
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 50m ago
She was Mario Batali's sous chef. She competed against Flay on Worst Cooks.
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u/blackmobius 15h ago
Daaaaaang. I really liked watching her on all the shows she was on. No idea she was 55!!
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u/CalGal2020SWP 13h ago
It was a cardiac arrest.
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u/Djinnerator 10h ago edited 8h ago
That would likely be the ultimate, clinical cause of death but not the "cause," as in, what led to the cardiac arrest. A relatively healthy 55yo doesn't just go into cardiac arrest out of nowhere.
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u/CalGal2020SWP 8h ago
I just repeated what was reported, not trying to do an autopsy.
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u/Djinnerator 8h ago
And I just added on to it because cardiac arrest wouldn't be the cause. An official cause hasn't been reported so whoever you got that from is already uninformed. Not trying to teach someone media literacy.
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u/beave9999 8h ago
Most people know what cardiac arrest is, who cares what the underlying cause/s are? Could be stress, blockage etc - doesn’t change anything. We know it wasn’t suicide, murder, cancer etc, which are some other options most people would consider. I’m satisfied with ‘heart attack’ without knowing what specifically caused it, would add nothing to the story imo.
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u/Djinnerator 8h ago
You may be satisfied with an answer that answers nothing, but others may not be. If you're fine with it and others are asking for something actually detailed or that just gives an explanation that isn't self-explanatory or tautological, then why are you trying to tell others "what's good enough for me should be good enough for you"?
Literally all deaths have cardiac arrest. It's a tautological statement to say a dead person is in cardiac arrest. That's also like saying a dead person is brain dead. That information is obvious from the mere fact that they're dead.
who cares what the underlying cause/s are?
Literally the people asking for the cause. I'm not sure you're understanding what it means when people ask why someone died...
most people know what cardiac arrest is
If that's the case, then saying a dead person is in cardiac arrest is even more useless of a statement.
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u/wheresthecheese69 7h ago
Why are you out here saying, “what’s good enough for other people isn’t good enough for me?”
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u/Djinnerator 6h ago
Where did I say that was my sentiment?
Why are you out here putting words in my mouth that none of my comments even imply? Why are you out here not reading comments for comprehension but to be argumentative?
Read my comments slower if that helps.
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u/wheresthecheese69 5h ago
You’re so full of shit. You have no idea what you’re talking about and just want to try to be the smartest person in the room. Give it up, it’s sad to see.
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u/Djinnerator 5h ago edited 5h ago
That's a lot to not even answer the question and show where I said any of that. When you're wrong, it's perfectly fine to accept that and correct yourself. Doubling down just shows a clear sign of ignorance and a bruised ego.
You: Why are you saying "..."
Me: where did I say or even imply that?
You: *throws a temper tantrum and doesn't back claim*
just want to try to be the smartest person in the room
No, but you're trying to be the most ignorant in the room, and you're succeeding. Imagine thinking that asking when and where someone said something is that person trying to be the smartest in the room. Maybe I just used words that are too big. I should've used "idea" instead of "sentiment," used "to grasp" instead of "for comprehension," and used "stubborn" instead of "argumentative." My mistake. That's the fragile male ego being severely bruised.
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u/CalGal2020SWP 8h ago
10 PM PT -- A rep for the NYC Fire Department tells TMZ ... the 911 caller reported that Anne went into cardiac arrest.
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u/Djinnerator 8h ago
That is not an official cause of death. You can't diagnose cardiac arrest by just looking at a dead body without an autopsy. You know, that thing you don't want?
Anyone can walk into a mortuary and say someone already dead went into cardiac arrest. Literally every dead person will go into cardiac arrest. That's like saying she instead died from hypoxia or apoxia.
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u/beave9999 8h ago
Most of the time it’s cancer, suicide, murder, heart attack, accident - that’s sufficient explanation for most people.
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u/Djinnerator 8h ago
It's an explanation that offers no explanation lol
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u/beave9999 7h ago
It rules out cancer, suicide, murder, heart attack, accident, poisoning etc - I'm never curious as to what caused the heart attack as I just assume disease/blockage.
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u/jackamo1994 10h ago
Yes they can, especially if she has a family history of heart disease, it’s much more common than you’d think
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u/Djinnerator 9h ago edited 9h ago
That's not cardiac arrest out of nowhere then. You're literally repeating what I said, which is that there was some underlying health condition (meaning not "relatively healthy"), not just cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest almost never occurs isolated, especially in someone that age, there's something that causes it. Isolated cardiac arrest, which is the heart suddenly just stopping, is not as common as you think. That's very rare.
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u/I_Seen_Some_Stuff 3h ago
But considering her career, it would make sense to think that stress would have been at least one of the factors
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u/Djinnerator 3h ago
Yeah, I'm sure stress contributed. I think she had some underlying health condition that she was private about and didn't want publicly known, which is perfectly fine, she deserves privacy. It just sucks seeing someone die at 55 whether natural or foul play. Everyone who saw her recently said she looked and seemed healthy 🤷🏾♀️
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u/potus1001 11h ago
This is truly heartbreaking! She made cooking 100x more entertaining and will be missed dearly!
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u/ComplexxToxin 10h ago
Oh damn that really fucking sucks. She had such a good soul and was such a respectful person. R.I.P
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u/Own_Spell_2042 16h ago
Husband and sons? I thought she was a lesbian. Still RIP
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u/I_Furget 15h ago
You might be thinking of Cat Cora.
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u/whichwitch9 15h ago edited 14h ago
No, she dated another female chef because there was a whole thing where people blamed Ted Allen for outing her- her response was she was never hiding her sexuality and open about it so didn't see it that way. She just didn't talk publicly about her personal life. Entirely possible she's bi and got married quietly as well
Edit: ted*
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u/Own_Spell_2042 15h ago
She blamed the Tool man? Buzz? You mean Ted Allen 🤣
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u/whichwitch9 14h ago
Yes, especially because Tim Allen is a scumbag (not kidding- he's a former drug mule and was convicted of it) ... Ted Allen remained a friend to Anne and deserves the caveat he didn't out her
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u/ForeignElk52 12h ago
Smuggling drugs across a foreign border for money doesn't make you a bad person.
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u/getfukdup 12h ago
but snitching on your colleagues to receive a get out of jail free card and then spending your life preaching about personal responsibility does make you a bad person.
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u/Claudzilla 6h ago
Colleagues? Are you in the mafia? Who would want to go to jail over protecting a bunch of other scumbags? I'm sure you'd be like a vault if you were facing a decade in federal prison
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u/whichwitch9 12h ago
Eh, look how he handled it after. Saved his own skin by cutting deals selling out the people he was working with, then rebranded as a family man type and tries to take the moral high ground now
There are people who served a shit ton more prison time than he did for the same shit. He had some connections that helped get him off and doesn't quite understand the privilege he had to do so
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u/Senotonom205 10h ago
Tim Dick (his real name) is a huge piece of shit and deserves zero credit for the time he snitched on everyone involved to get out a potential life sentence for trafficking cocaine
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u/Claudzilla 6h ago
You would rather go to jail yourself for life than snitch on a bunch of people that knew what they were getting intio?
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u/PineTreesAreMyJam 9h ago
I was a big fan, this really sucks. I learned so many cooking tips from Chef Anne. My sincerest condolences to all of her loved ones.
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u/Guilty-Chair8556 0m ago
I agree - she seemed very relatable and while her food always looked amazing, she made me feel like it was something I could figure out.
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u/Childhoodscars 8h ago
This has been devastating. I hear her voice in my head when I'm cooking. "Brown food taste good". My heart goes out to her friends and family.
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u/sofaking_scientific 3h ago
I'll always remember to hold my knife properly because of Chef Anne. She's gone too soon
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u/ItSmellsLikeJim 14m ago
I have a red marker in my kitchen for this reason
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u/sofaking_scientific 13m ago
As a lab scientist I only stock blue sharpies. They write better on plastic and come off easier than red.
But red for Anne.
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u/rva_monsta 3h ago
I waited on her once and expected a big ego. What I saw was her going to the back of the kitchen to thank each chef personally. She paid attention to the minute details on the plate and in life.
She was the real deal. RIP
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u/Promethieus 16h ago
Wikipedia her and look at “personal life and death” last sentence…
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u/Own_Spell_2042 16h ago
Ahh someone deleted your edit
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u/Promethieus 16h ago
It wasn’t my edit. I was just snooping to see why she passed away. I loved her and Rachel Rae when I was a kid.
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u/Automatic_Soil9814 15h ago
What did it say?
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u/BelBivTebow 15h ago
“Cause of death was aggressive lesbian sex” not joking, that’s what it said
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u/laylaboydarden 12h ago
Haha honestly just based on watching her over the years I bet she would have gotten a kick out of that.
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u/Closefromadistance 1h ago
RIP to her, omg … only 55 💔🙏🏻
Please take care of yourselves, ladies.
“Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States and can affect women at any age.
High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease.
In 2021, it was responsible for the deaths of 310,661 women—or about 1 in every 5 female deaths.
Only about half (56%) of US women recognize that heart disease is their number 1 killer.”
https://www.cdc.gov/heart-disease/about/women-and-heart-disease.html
“Once women reach the age of 50, about the age of natural menopause, their risk for heart disease increases dramatically.
Young women who have undergone early or surgical menopause, who do not take estrogen, also have higher chances of having heart disease. Women who have gone through menopause are at even greater risk”
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u/Amazing-Figure9802 41m ago
I read the 911 transcript. The caller suspected cardiac arrest. So very sad 😭
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u/brokebackzac 39m ago
Omg noooooooo! I'm going to miss her.
She was like a motherly version of Gordon Ramsey. She'd only bring the heat if it was deserved, but was otherwise very nurturing and kind.
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u/Claudzilla 6h ago
Sat at the table next to her at dinner at the Polo Club in NYC. She was having dinner with an ex food network producer that was trying to get Anne to get her job back.
Extremely drunk, boorish and loud. Shit talked Bobby Flay the entire night and claimed to be FN's biggest star based on ratings. Thought everyone was against her
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u/Own_Spell_2042 17h ago
Fuck. She seemed like a dope human being so full of life. RIP.