Cliff first appeared in the entertainment industry as a contestant on Top Chef in 2006. He rose to prominence after punching a rival competitor, Marcel Vigneron. Everyone assumed our chef’s career was gone, but fate had other plans for him. He’s back on television, and this time he’s in a huge one!! Chef Boot Camp was his Food Network show on Discovery. According to corporate discovery.com, Crooks is “the culinary director of a global restaurant chain whose position entails assuring the complete operation adequate consideration, especially recruiting additional the chefs of each kitchen.”
The chef was named Executive Chef of BLT New York, a part of the BLT Restaurant Group, in 2010. Crooks appeared on Top Chef Season 2 as a guest chef. He did not, however, win the competition since he was booted out after a quarrel with another contestant. The chef served as a judge on Hell’s Kitchen, Worst Chefs in America, and Chopped Junior. Cliff Crooks grabbed fellow participant Marcel Vigneron out of his bunk, pinned him to the floor, and yelled at him to shave his head after only one night of drinking.
