At 44, Stéphanie Le Quellec is one of the rare star-studded women in France. An emblematic character from “Top Chef”, Hèlène Darroze’s accomplice is also the mother of three children who (almost) all seem to have found their way…
This Wednesday, March 4, M6 will kick off the 17th season of one of its flagship programs: Top Chef. Hélène Darroze, Philippe Etchebest, Glenn Viel, Paul Pairet and Stéphanie Le Quellec thus regaining their precious places as jurors.
Stéphanie Le Quellec, what her husband and children force her to do: “I have pressure…”
Chief Stéphanie Le Quellec is not about to leave this juror position. And for good reason, her children, Baptiste, 21 years old, Maxime, 19 years old, and Arthur, 8 years old, and her husband David Le Quellec love seeing her in this role. “I never watch (Top Chef, editor’s note) in the evening, even because I’m in the kitchen, but I have family pressure from my husband and my children to follow the show in replay on the weekend”said the mother in the columns of TV Magazine during a cross-interview with her colleague and friend Hélène Darroze.
“So I’m definitely going to watch a few episodes. But I hate seeing myself.”she then clarified. Extremely close to her children, the two-star chef would not deny them this little pleasure for anything in the world. “I’m not at home every evening, but when I am, I devote myself completely to my children”she explained. Before specifying: “They always followed us everywhere, to restaurants, on trips… We experienced some very powerful things”.
Stéphanie Le Quellec, mother of three children: will they follow in her footsteps?
It is certainly by following their parents closely that the three boys developed a certain love for the world of cooking. “After two years of law school, my eldest son is a bartender in a very beautiful palace, and my youngest is a pastry chef. He always wanted to do that and entered hotel school at 14, like me”proudly declared Stéphanie Le Quellec.
Stéphanie Le Quellec added, not without emotion, that even the youngest child was interested in her world: “My youngest is only 8 years old but is starting to say that he wants to bake. It has always been present in the kitchens of my restaurant“. An immense pride for the 44-year-old chef whose “person“of the family “wasn’t in the business”. “We had the culture of the table, but not of haute cuisine and Michelin stars. On the other hand, I cultivated a fascination for great chefs”she concluded.
