Celebrity Chef Cheryl Forberg is a trusted nutritionist and James Beard Award-winning chef who is best recognized as the head nutritionist on NBC’s hit weight loss competition series The Biggest Loser since 2004. On the show, Cheryl helps teach the contestants about the importance of a healthy diet and shares her own cooking and nutrition tips to help the contestants maintain a healthy lifestyle long after their time on the show has ended. She has also been the lead author and/or co-wrote all of the New York Times bestselling Biggest Loser diet and exercise books. In August of 2015, American Pistachio Growers (APG) hired Celebrity Chef Cheryl Forberg as a new brand ambassador to educate consumers on the benefits of pistachios as a healthy snack.
After graduating from the California Culinary Academy, Cheryl worked abroad in France before returning to California to help open Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant Postrio in San Francisco. After several years spent in commercial kitchens, Cheryl began working as a private chef for Star Wars director George Lucas and his family. During this time she went back to school to dig deeper into the world of nutrition and proper dieting. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics and certification as a registered dietician.
Before finding her way onto the set of The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Chef Cheryl Forberg worked as a research dietician at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. She also helped with recipe development for the UCLA Department of Clinical Nutrition. Cheryl has dedicated her life to better understanding the scientific facts behind properly engineered diets. In addition to The Biggest Loser book series, Cheryl co-athuored the James-Beard Award-winning New Mayo Clinic Cookbook released in 2005. She is now a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and the Washington Post.
Celebrity Chef Cheryl Forberg is available for a variety of Celebrity Chef appearances including Celebrity Chef speaking engagements and cooking demonstrations.
Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson is a former NFL football player turned Celebrity Chef who was the winner of season 11 of the Food Network cooking competition series Food Network Star in 2015. Eddie beat out 12 other celebrity chef hopefuls and will now have his own cooking series on the Food Network. His pilot BBQ Blitz, aired during the finale of Food Network Star will serve as the basis for his new show centered around barbeque. Also a personal trainer and bodybuilder, Eddie prides himself on creating healthy, nutritious dishes that can help others life a healthier lifestyle without sacrificing the flavors they love.
Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson was a standout defensive back for the University of Arkansas. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers in 2004. He spent the 2005 and 2006 seasons with the Miami Dolphins before suffering a torn ACL. The New England Patriots scooped him up out of free agency before the 2007 season. Again injuries would keep him from the field and he ended his professional football career with the Washington Redskins in 2008.
As a pro athlete, Eddie had always been big into fitness and eating healthy so he saw an opportunity to start a new career helping others live a healthier lifestyle. His appearance on Food Network Star was not his first crack at TV cooking competition series. Eddie came in 8th place out of 19 talented contestants in season 4 of Gordon Ramsay’s MasterChef on Fox. In addition to his new gig with Food Network, Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson currently owns and operates his own popular food truck in Houston called the Caribbean Grill.
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Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso gained notoriety in the culinary industry as a fan favorite on season 4 of the popular Bravo cooking competition series Top Chef in 2008. Since then, she has made celebrity chef appearances on major TV programs such as the Hallmark Channel and ABC’s The Chew. In 2010, Antonia returned to Bravo to participate in Top Chef: All-Stars. Antonia came in 3rd place behind esteemed Celebrity Chefs Richard Blais and Mike Isabella. Most recently, Antonia has opened her own restaurants Black Market in Studio City, California as well as Scopa Italian Roots in Venice, California. In 2015, Antonia was a featured Celebrity Chef on the second season of NBC’s high-stakes culinary competition series Food Fighters.
Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso is the author of her own signature cookbook that hit shelves in 2013 called The Busy Mom’s Cookbook: 100 recipes for Quick, Delicious, Home-Cooked Meals. The cookbook covers a variety of quick and easy dishes for parents and families who are always on the go.
Antonia attended the acclaimed French Culinary Institute. After graduation, she was hired at world class Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck’s renowned eatery, Spago in Beverly Hills. She worked at the restaurant for six years before taking her culinary skills to the next level at Foxtail supper club in Los Angeles. It was during her time at Foxtail that she was chosen to be a contestant on Top Chef season 4. In addition to her commercial work, Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso has been a private chef to some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
As a single mother to daughter Xea, Antonia has mastered the art of multi-tasking. She is a fulltime mom while acting as owner and executive chef of her two popular restaurants. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication, but Antonia maintains the perfect work/life balance.
Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso is an endearing Celebrity Chef personality available for cooking demonstrations and other Celebrity Chef appearances.
Celebrity Chef Lorraine Pascale enjoyed a career in modeling with designers such as Chanel, Versace and Donna Karan before realizing her dream to share creativity with others through food. Lorraine was the first British African American model to appear on the cover of the American edition of Elle magazine. Modeling gave Lorraine a starting point in her career but she wanted to find something that would sustain her professional career once her modeling days were over. She spent her free time taking courses on various industries including car mechanics and interior design. She fell in love with the culinary arts during a year-long cooking course at Leith’s School of Food & Wine.
Celebrity Chef Lorraine Pascale dove headfirst into the kitchen. Following her proper schooling, she began working in renowned eateries in the United Kingdom. She decided she wanted to create her own specialty cake company. She has since opened her own shop called Ella’s Bakehouse in London. In 2011, Celebrity Chef Lorraine Pascale introduced her first TV cooking series on BBC called Baking Made Easy. She would appear as the host of two more programs on the network called Home Cooking Made Easy and A Last Minute Christmas. In 2012, she debuted a series called Fast, Fresh and Easy Food. Lorraine followed each of her BBC TV series with a signature book that detailed her tips, tricks and recipes from the show.
Lorraine is currently a featured judge on the Food Network series Spring Baking Championship with Nancy Fuller and Duff Goldman. In 2015, Celebrity Chef Lorraine was hired to host the BodyPower Kitchen event at the 2015 BodyPower Expo. She operates her own YouTube channel in which she shares videos that provide health and fitness tips for viewers.
Celebrity Chef Lorraine Pascale is quickly becoming one of the most beloved Food Network personalities on air with her wide smile and melodic British accent.
TV Host and Celebrity Chef Dietitian Gina Keatley has become the go-to gal for all things nutritious. She is a Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist who founded her own private practice called Keatley Medical Nutrition Therapy. Her practice helps educate and promote better lifestyle habits for individuals suffering from diseases related to nutrition such as obesity, diabetes and eating disorders. Gina has been called upon as an Nutrition Expert by many major news programs and talk shows including appearances on CNN, the Dr. Oz Show, and BBC Worldwide. In 2013, Gina was awarded the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition Community Leadership Award for her efforts to create a healthier America.
Celebrity Chef Dietitian Gina got her degree in Nutrition from New York University. She then helped co-found Nourishing USA, where she worked for 5 years as the Director of Nutrition and Culinary Arts. Nourishing USA is a non-profit organization that helps support local food banks, soup kitchens, and emergency shelters in the New York area. Celebrity Chef Dietitian Gina Keatley got her first taste of Food Network as a contestant on Extreme Chef. She then appeared as a contestant on Top Chef: Seattle in 2012. A year later she joined Uncanned Productions as the host of her own TV show Healthy Soul With Gina Keatley. In it she touches on a variety of topics surrounding food culture and health & wellness.
In 2014, Gina was chosen as a panelist for L’Oréal Paris and Glamour Magazine’s Top Ten College Women speaking event that was moderated by Glamour editor-in-chief, Cindi Leive. She has a commanding stage presence and a genuine interest in educating others about the benefits of good diet habits. That same year she debuted her first documentary titled Far From Healthy that took a closer look into America’s food landscape.
Celebrity Chef Dietitian Gina Keatley is dedicated to educating the public on better ways to lead a healthy lifestyle.
