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Anthony Bourdain may have overcome his drug addiction but was never able to stop drinking — and hated himself for it, a new controversial biography alleged.In “Down And Out In Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain,” which will be released Oct. 11, author Charles Leerhsen spoke to The Guardian about Bourdain’s sad, final days.The American chef and TV presenter hanged himself in a French hotel room in June 2018.

Selena Kuznikov If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Amazon Prime Day doesn’t kick off until July but the behemoth retailer has announced another deals event to tide us over until then.

Steve Albini, fans have been re-sharing a clip of the producer talking to the late Anthony Bourdain about his politics, career and love of Chicago.The legendary record producer – who was the mastermind behind iconic albums such as Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero‘ and Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’– died yesterday (May 8) of a heart attack while at Electronic Audio – his recording studio in Chicago. His death was confirmed by the studio’s staff members.Albini appeared as a guest on season seven episode three of the Emmy-award-winning show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

EXCLUSIVE: Erik Osterholm, longtime Bourdain producer/director and Down To Earth co-creator Michael Simkin launch Ultra Boom Media. The two producers are joining forces to create Ultra Boom Media alongside Oscar/Emmy nominated filmmaker Omar Mullick and veteran media and creative exec Carrie Kaylor.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have a lot more up their sleeve!

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are branching out and expanding their roles at Netflix.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have two new nonfiction projects with the streamer — one a cooking show and the other a series about polo.Both programs fall under the deal they signed with Netflix under their Archewell Productions company.The first series will feature Markle and “celebrate the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining and friendship,” according to Deadline. It will be produced by an arm of Sony Pictures Television, which is also behind “The D’Amelio Show” (Hulu) and “Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath” (A&E).The showrunner will be Leah Hariton (“Selena & Chef“) and the series will be directed by Michael Steed (“Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”).

Selome Hailu Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has set two new unscripted series at Netflix via her Archewell Productions banner, which is under an overall deal at the streamer. The first series will be curated by the Duchess, aka Meghan Markle, and will “celebrate the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining, and friendship” per an official description.

EXCLUSIVE: Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry are cooking up two new projects with Netflix.

Ratatouille.The actor and comedian starred in the 2007 Oscar-winning film, voicing Remy, a rat who dreams of becoming a chef and forms an unlikely alliance with Linguini, the garbage boy of a fancy French restaurant.While appearing as a guest on Watch What Happens Live with host Andy Cohen, Oswalt opened up about his friendship with the late chef. “I became friends with him because he was a huge fan of Ratatouille,” Oswalt said.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Bill Maher‘s long-running “Real Time” is getting more time across the Warner Bros. Discovery portfolio. CNN will start running episodes of the program on Saturday nights at 8 p.m., a day after their original broadcasts on HBO.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Inspired by Arnold Wesker’s 1959 stage play, “The Kitchen,” Alonso Ruizpalacios’ “La Cocina” dives deep into the bowels of the industrial-size kitchen of a restaurant in New York City’s Times Square where food is churned out to serve throngs of diners, mostly tourists. For Ruizpalacios, whose feature debut, “Güeros,” won the best first feature award at the Berlinale nearly 10 years ago, “La Cocina” (“The Kitchen”) is basically an anti-food-porn movie. “I wanted to show the other side of the food industry where expediency is more important than the quality of the food.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Martha Stewart didn’t talk to CNN for a new original documentary series the news outlet has produced about her. But she’s still the star of the show. “The Many Lives of Martha Stewart” is a four-part series produced by CNN Studios, a division devoted to longer-form and enterprise programming in the wake of a strategic decision made in 2022 to scale back big ambitions to compete in the documentary arena.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Stanley Tucci has found a new recipe for the popular docuseries exploring Italian cuisine he once whipped up for CNN. The actor has struck a production deal with Disney’s National Geographic that calls for a new ten-part docuseries, “Tucci – The Heart of Italy,” to appear on the Nat Geo cable network. Tucci will explore the cuisine and culture in ten different regions of Italy.

Jaden Thompson Alex Rodriguez’s production company and brand studio, Mason Media, has appointed Westbrook Media and CNN alum Dana Z. Currier as their new COO.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Writers and actors aren’t the only people in Hollywood grappling with the impact generative artificial intelligence will have on the entertainment industry. Documentarians are also concerned about AI and what it means for the ethical standards and practices of nonfiction filmmaking.

Sophia Scorziello editor Ray Liotta received a posthumous Emmy nomination for his role as Big Jim Keene in Dennis Lehane’s “Black Bird,” the Apple TV+ true crime series based on the real life of serial killer Larry Hall. Liotta was nominated forbest supporting actor in a limited series alongside his costar Paul Water Hauser, Richard Jenkins , Murray Bartlett, Joseph Lee, Young Mazino and Jesse Plemons.. Liotta joins the small list of actors who have received posthumous Primetime Emmy nominations, including last year’s nomination of Chadwick Boseman (“What If…?”), Norm MacDonald (“Nothing Special”) and Jessica Walters (“Archer”) and the previous nominations of Carrie Fisher (“Catastrophe”), Audrey Hepburn (“Gardens of the World With Audrey Hepburn”), Anthony Bourdain (Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”) and Fred Willard (“Modern Family”).

Jeremy Allen White, there’s a new chef in town on “The Bear” that fans are going gaga over: Will Poulter’s tattooed pastry chef character, Luca. “will poulter in the bear s2. look at his fine ass i cannot,” one hot and bothered fan tweeted. Another viewer said, “Yes yes Jeremy Allen White, but may I give you The Bear Season 2’s major thirst object: Tattoo’d pastry chef Will Poulter.”Season 1 of the hit FX/ Hulu show, which premiered last summer, followed Carmy (White, 32), a chef from the fine dining world who returns to his home of Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop after his brother’s death.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk’s Twitter has stirred up a new wave of confusion. After the multibillionaire tech baron made good on his threat to yank Twitter blue check-marks from celebrities who weren’t paying him $8 per month last week, the social network has reinstated the badge for many — including on accounts of people who have died. The Musk-owned social network on April 20 revoked verified blue check-mark status from thousands of accounts belonging to celebrities, athletes, politicians and other “notable” figures granted under the company’s previous ownership. The hope was that taking away the “free” Twitter blue check-mark would boost revenue from subscriptions to Twitter Blue, while Musk has also framed it as democratizing the user-verification process.

Twitter has added posthumous blue checks to the accounts of dead celebrities including Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson, Chadwick Bosman, Chester Bennington and more.The updates follow a promise made by owner Elon Musk, which saw him remove all legacy-verified checkmarks from the site on April 20, as a way of encouraging users to sign up for an $8 (£6) monthly fee.While the removal of the legacy-verified checkmarks sparked debates from multiple users throughout the entertainment industry — including Ricky Gervais and Jack Black — in recent days numerous high-profile accounts regained the verification symbol on their accounts. This was suspected to be part of a wider (but unannounced) scheme to restore verification to users with over one million followers.Among the famous faces who have had the checkmark reissued to their account are multiple dead celebrities.

Pete Davidson is confused. The 29-year-old comedian spoke with Charlamagne the God on where he was asked about the rumors surrounding a particular body part.«I don't understand.

Selome Hailu Good Trip Studios has entered production on a sequel to the 2020 documentary “Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics.” A distribution deal has yet to be finalized, though the first film — directed by Donick Cary and hosted by Adam Scott and Nick Offerman — streamed on Netflix. Like the first film, “Have a Good Trip 2: Adventures in Psychedelics” explores the current state of psychedelic drugs in society as well as their scientific potential to treat mental health issues including PTSD, depression and addiction. Comedians and celebrities are featured in re-tellings and re-enactments of true experiences with psychedelics, while leading experts share facts and harm reduction methods.

Amber Dowling Cineflix Productions has confirmed it is in development with comedian Bonnie McFarlane on a scripted comedy series based on her 2016 memoir, “You’re Better Than Me.” The project is inspired by McFarlane’s time as a high schooler in Cold Lake, Alberta, in the mid-1980s. McFarlane serves as the creator and writer for the half-hour series, which takes place on a farm “294 kilometres outside the nearest pizza delivery zone.” There, a 16-year-old Bonnie flexes her smart mouth, hangs out with her BFF bovine, and recognizes that she’s not the easiest person to get along with.

a food-world punchline — Anthony Bourdain once described his shuttered Times Square restaurant, Guy’s American Kitchen, as a “terror dome” — Fieri is now embraced by high-end dining’s biggest names, and “killed” is foodie-speak for chefs over-indulging favored customers.His last dinner that turned figuratively fatal? “We were at Italian Graffiti in Salt Lake City,” Fieri told The Post. “You name it, chef Marc Marrone sent it out. Then, at meal’s end, came the bone-in pork chop and rabbit tortellini.

Coffee experts have unveiled Scotland’s "first ever" caffeine-fuelled road trip, passing through some of the very best independent coffee shops around the country.

Rick Lewchuk is exiting his post as senior vice president of creative marketing and brand standards for CNN Worldwide, amid cost-cutting and layoffs at the network this week.

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It’s been four years since the world lost Anthony Bourdain. And now a new biography is rubbing salt in the wound — and it’s doing it with receipts, apparently.

Asia Argento, the girlfriend of the late Anthony Bourdain, has seemingly reacted to a bombshell new biography of the celebrity chef.