On last night's episode of Iron Chef Showdown, you may have noticed something was a bit different with Giada De Laurentiis being the only judge on the episode. This was because John Besh was edited out of the episode due to the sexual misconduct allegations against him that were revealed in October 2017. Food Network still aired the premiere episode of Iron Chef Showdown in November which had John Besh on it, so it seems they have had a change of heart. This is perhaps due to other networks recently removing programming that had chefs with sexual misconduct allegations (ABC removing Mario Batali from The Chew, Top Chef planning to edit out John Besh in an episode, and ABC removing the Great American Baking Show mid-season due to Johnny Iuzzini allegations).
This particular Iron Chef Showdown episode was supposed to air on December 13th, but it was removed from the schedule by Food Network at the last moment. Tory Miller, who competed on the episode, actually had a watch party on December 13th and didn't know the episode wasn't airing until they tuned in and a different episode was showing. Alton Brown took the blame on Twitter saying it was his fault as he didn't finish voice over patches in time. However, now it looks like they were busy editing the episode to remove John Besh. An interesting tidbit is that the episode was actually released on Amazon Video and aired on Food Network Canada in December and that episode had John Besh in it.
Last night, John Besh was totally edited out of all of the judging segments and Food Network even tried to edit him out of the background shots. Below you will see examples of John Besh edited out of the background as well as times he was missed.
Above - John Besh edited out of the background shot
Above - John Besh edited out and they even re-drew the knife design.
Above - A short time after, John Besh is there next to Giada De Laurentiis.
I think it is good that Food Network put in the effort to try to edit John Besh out rather than remove the episode totally. Imagine if you were chef Tory Miller and you had the moment of your life by beating Bobby Flay in an Iron Chef battle and it was never aired.
This particular Iron Chef Showdown episode was supposed to air on December 13th, but it was removed from the schedule by Food Network at the last moment. Tory Miller, who competed on the episode, actually had a watch party on December 13th and didn't know the episode wasn't airing until they tuned in and a different episode was showing. Alton Brown took the blame on Twitter saying it was his fault as he didn't finish voice over patches in time. However, now it looks like they were busy editing the episode to remove John Besh. An interesting tidbit is that the episode was actually released on Amazon Video and aired on Food Network Canada in December and that episode had John Besh in it.
Last night, John Besh was totally edited out of all of the judging segments and Food Network even tried to edit him out of the background shots. Below you will see examples of John Besh edited out of the background as well as times he was missed.
Above - A short time after, John Besh is there next to Giada De Laurentiis.
Above - John Besh edited out and they even re-drew the knife design.
I think it is good that Food Network put in the effort to try to edit John Besh out rather than remove the episode totally. Imagine if you were chef Tory Miller and you had the moment of your life by beating Bobby Flay in an Iron Chef battle and it was never aired.
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