People do all sorts of things to get on reality TV shows. Crash state dinners. Pretend their kid is inside a runaway hot air balloon.
And maybe, just maybe, open a restaurant.
Back when Timothy Dean opened Prime Steakhouse, rumor had it that he was doing it to help him land a spot on "Top Chef." I asked his lawyer, Peter Prevas, about it at the time. He gave me one of those non-denial denials, along the lines of, "I can't talk about that."
Well, come to find out, Bravo has just announced the Dean has made the cut for next season's "Top Chef," which is being filmed in Washington.
As Sarah Kickler Kelber notes on her blog, Reality Check, Dean is listed on the Bravo website as the chef/owner of Prime Steakhouse. You'll recall that he declared himself to be neither when the place opened.
Just goes to show, truth is stranger than reality TV.
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