Curtis Stone#Television

Stone was born in Melbourne in Australia. He grew up in the suburb of East Keilor. Stone began cooking with his paternal grandmother, Maude, at the age of four. His father, Bryan Stone, is an accountant, and his mother, Lorraine, is a florist; they separated when Stone was two years old. Stone attended Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School where he took home economics class and then went on to a commercial cookery apprenticeship at a vocational school.{{cite news| title=Curtis Stone Heads Back to His Roots| url=https://www.foodandwine.com/chefs/curtis-stone-rediscover-cooking| first=Jennifer| last=Zyman| date=27 November 2024| access-date=2024-12-15| magazine=Food & Wine| language=en}}

Stone studied for a Bachelor of Business at Victoria University before dropping out and deciding to pursue a career as a chef. He worked in Australian restaurants before leaving to work in London, where he debuted his cooking career at age 18 at the Savoy Hotel. Upon completing his qualifications as a chef at Box Hill TAFE, Stone began cooking under Marco Pierre White at the Café Royal and Mirabelle, and went on to become head chef at White's Quo Vadis.{{cite news |title=Who the Hell Is Curtis Stone? |url=https://www.eater.com/2011/4/8/6688015/who-the-hell-is-curtis-stone |website=Eater |date=8 April 2011}}

Stone returned briefly to Australia to make the travelling cooking show Surfing the Menu (on ABC) with another chef, Ben O'Donoghue.

Stone has appeared on a number of cooking programmes in the UK, including Dinner in a Box, Good Food Live and Saturday Kitchen. He also hosted the first season of My Restaurant Rules in Australia. Beginning in May 2006, Stone hosted Take Home Chef on TLC in the United States,{{cite web| title=Take Home Chef| url=http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/take-home-chef/| website=TLC| access-date=20 March 2016}} which went on to become an international hit for TLC.{{cite web| title=Chef Curtis Stone's Takeout Intervention| url=http://www.oprah.com/food/Take-Home-Chef-Curtis-Stones-Takeout-Intervention| website=The Oprah Winfrey Show| access-date=20 March 2016}}{{cite web| title=Take Home Chef| website=LifeStyle Food| url=http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/tv/take-home-chef/| access-date=20 March 2016| archive-date=7 March 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307051155/http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/tv/take-home-chef/| url-status=dead}}

On American television Stone appears regularly on NBC's Today. His second appearance in 2007 featured him visiting the home of host Meredith Vieira to teach her how to cook, as her children had complained that she did not know how.{{cite web| url= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18306362/| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070428165123/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18306362/| url-status= dead| archive-date=28 April 2007| title=Cooking with 'Take Home Chef' Curtis Stone| website=Today| date=25 April 2007| access-date=20 March 2016}} On 14 January 2011, Stone co-hosted the fourth hour of Today with Hoda Kotb.{{cite web| url=http://www.today.com/id/41076661/ns/today-today_food/t/bad-news-ladies-curtis-stone-confirms-hes-taken/#.Vu7Cy_krKM8| title=Bad New Ladies: Curtis Stone Confirms He's Taken |website=Today |date=14 January 2011}} He has also appeared on Martha Stewart's show Martha, Access Hollywood, Lopez Tonight, The Nate Berkus Show, The Talk, The Chew, and Rachael Ray. On 7 June 2011, Curtis was a guest on Conan, where he taught Conan O'Brien how to prepare the perfect date night meal.{{cite web| url=http://eater.com/archives/2011/06/08/curtis-stone-teaches-conan-how-to-cook-for-date-night.php| title=Curtis Stone Teaches Conan How to Cook for Date Night| last=Forbes| first=Paul| date=8 June 2011| website=Eater}}

Stone has appeared on Food Network's Iron Chef America in the episode "Battle Skipjack Tuna", where he lost to Iron Chef Bobby Flay.List of Iron Chef America episodes

Stone has also appeared on several episodes of The Biggest Loser.{{cite web| title=Curtis Stone| url=https://www.tvinsider.com/people/curtis-stone/#biography| website=TV Insider| access-date=15 December 2024}}

Stone was a candidate on The Celebrity Apprentice 3, which premiered in March 2010 and was the third installment to the celebrity version of The Apprentice. The show premiered on 14 March 2010, and Stone was fired on 16 May 2010, placing fourth out of 14 contestants. On the same day (16 May 2010), Stone was co-host of Miss USA 2010. Stone has also made appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Stone appeared on a segment of Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure, a four-day television event that aired in January 2011.{{cite web |url=http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2011/12/day-two-of-our-ultimate-australian-adventure-in-which-curtis-stone-serves-us-dinner-we-hang-out-with-all-ten-tenors-and-i-make-oprah-cry-2/ |title=Day Two of our Ultimate Australian Adventure in which Curtis Stone Serves us Dinner, We Hang Out With All Ten Tenors and I Make Oprah Cry |date=11 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116180046/http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2011/12/day-two-of-our-ultimate-australian-adventure-in-which-curtis-stone-serves-us-dinner-we-hang-out-with-all-ten-tenors-and-i-make-oprah-cry-2/ |archive-date=16 January 2012 }}

In June 2010, producers of NBC's new series America's Next Great Restaurant announced that Stone would join the judging and investment panel on alongside Bobby Flay, Steve Ells and Lorena Garcia.{{cite web| url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/Stone-Flay-Restaurant-1019478.aspx| title=Curtis Stone and Two Others Join Bobby Flay Restaurant Series| work=TV Guide| first=Kate| last=Stanhope| date=10 June 2010}} The first season aired in 2011 directly followed by the fourth edition of The Celebrity Apprentice, where Stone made a guest appearance on the first episode.The Apprentice (Season 11): Episode 1

In 2011, Stone became host of the third season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters, replacing Kelly Choi.{{cite web| url=http://eater.com/archives/2011/01/13/bravo-announces-top-chef-masters-season-3-with-host-curtis-stone.php| title=Bravo: Curtis Stone to Host Top Chef Masters Season 3| first=Raphael| last=Brion| date=13 January 2011| publisher=Eater.com}} In January 2012, Bravo announced Stone would co-host a new culinary reality show called Around the World in 80 Plates with fellow celebrity chef Cat Cora. The series, which premiered in May 2012, follows 12 chefs competing in a culinary race across 10 countries in 44 days.{{cite web |title=Bravo Announces New & Returning Shows Including Millionaire Matchmaker, Flipping Out & Two Housewives Spin-Offs! |url=http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=8345&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113071514/http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=8345&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=5 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 January 2012 |website=Reality Tea |date=19 January 2012}}

Stone also hosted and anchored the judges' table for the Top Chef franchise's spin-off edition, Top Chef Duels, in 2014.{{fact|date=July 2023}}

In August 2012, Stone appeared in an episode of MasterChef Australia All-Stars. He returned to MasterChef in May 2015 for a MasterClass alongside Marco Pierre White. Stone began hosting Kitchen Inferno in 2014{{cite news| url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/surfing-the-menus-ben-odonoghue-saved-curtis-stones-life-when-the-pair-last-went-surfing/news-story/5b9f588fd9e1ce7b63c47037cf21f8d3| title=Surfing the Menu’s Ben O’Donoghue ‘saved Curtis Stone’s life’ when the pair last went surfing| first=Andrew| last=Fenton| date=18 October 2015| website=News.com.au| access-date=2024-12-15}} and mentored Food Network's debut culinary competition, All Star Academy, in 2015. He appeared on the network again in summer 2015 for two episodes of the show Guilty Pleasures.{{cite news| url=http://www.foodnetwork.ca/shows/guilty-pleasures/episode-guide/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413091445/http://www.foodnetwork.ca/shows/guilty-pleasures/episode-guide/| url-status=dead| archive-date=13 April 2017|title=Guilty Pleasures Episode Guide| website=Food Network| access-date=2018-02-06| language=en-US}}

In 2015, Stone also made an appearance on the second season of Celebrity Family Feud.{{fact|date=July 2023}}

In 2017, Stone co-hosted the FOX reality cooking series My Kitchen Rules. Stone has previously appeared in the original Australian version of the program.{{cite web| url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/fox-my-kitchen-rules-cooking-series-curtis-stone-cat-cora-lance-bass-brandi-glanville-1201755650/| title=Fox Orders 'My Kitchen Rules' Cooking Series With Curtis Stone & Cat Cora| last1=Petski| first1=Denise| date=13 May 2016| work=Deadline Hollywood| access-date=15 December 2024}}

In 2019, Stone's series Field Trip with Curtis Stone began on PBS.{{cite web |title=Field Trip with Curtis Stone |url=https://www.pbs.org/show/field-trip-with-curtis-stone-hong-kong/ |website=PBS |access-date=15 December 2024}}

In 2021, Stone became a judge on Crime Scene Kitchen.

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On 1 February 2014, Stone opened his first restaurant, Maude, in Beverly Hills which is named after his paternal grandmother.{{cite news| last=Hallock| first=Betty| title=First look at Curtis Stone's Maude restaurant in Beverly Hills| url=https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-curtis-stone-maude-beverly-hills-20140109,0,1041667.story#axzz2uOJO0IuI| access-date=26 February 2014| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=10 January 2014}} Maude was first awarded a Michelin star in the 2019 Michelin Guide for California{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Annabel |title=Chef Curtis Stone's LA restaurant Maude awarded Michelin star |url=https://www.goodfood.com.au/eat-out/news/chef-curtis-stones-la-restaurant-maude-awarded-michelin-star-20190605-h1f38l |work=Good Food |date=5 June 2019}} and continues to hold its one-star rating as of 2023.{{cite web | url=https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/california/beverly-hills/restaurant/maude | title=Maude – Beverly Hills - a Michelin Guide Restaurant }} Stone opened a second restaurant, Gwen, in Hollywood in 2016, named after his maternal grandmother.{{cite news |last1=Gold |first1=Jonathan |title=Gwen, a manly restaurant and butcher shop, simply screams 'steak' |url=https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-fo-gold-gwen-review-20161208-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=8 December 2016}} Gwen was awarded 1 Michelin star in 2022.{{cite web | url=https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/california/us-los-angeles/restaurant/gwen | title=Gwen – Los Angeles - a Michelin Guide Restaurant }}

In 2024 Curtis opened Woodend by Curtis Stone at the Maroma Hotel in Mexico

In 2007, Stone hosted the Great Barrier Feast Culinary Masterclass event on Hamilton Island featuring other notable Australian chefs, including Geoff Jansz, Shannon Bennett, and Justin North.{{cite news| url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/queensland/island-daze-for-tropical-gourmands/2007/07/12/1183833685332.html? | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | title=Island daze for tropical gourmands | date=14 July 2007}} In 2008, Stone developed "Kitchen Solutions by Curtis Stone,"{{cite web| title=My Cookware Range - Kitchen Solutions| url=http://www.curtisstone.com/about-curtis#about-section-6| website=Curtis Stone.com| access-date=20 March 2016}} a line of kitchen utensils, accessories, and glassware. He also has written a series of cookbooks, including Surfing the Menu: Two Chefs, One Journey: A Fresh Food Adventure, Cooking With Curtis: Easy, Everyday and Adventurous Recipes for the Home Cook, and Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone: Recipes to Put You in My Favorite Mood. Stone's 2013 cookbook What's For Dinner? became a New York Times bestseller{{cite news| title=Best Sellers, May 5, 2013| language=en-US| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2013/05/05/advice-how-to-and-miscellaneous/| access-date=2021-06-11| issn=0362-4331| url-access=subscription}} and was translated into Chinese in December 2014. Stone's most recent book, Good Food, Good Life, launched in March 2015 in the United States and Canada and May 2015 in Australia.

In 2010, Stone gave a cooking class and demonstration at the Singapore Sun Festival.{{cite web |url=http://singaporesunfestival.com/2010/ |title=Singapore Sun Festival official site |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104210612/http://singaporesunfestival.com/2010/ |archive-date=4 January 2012}} In October 2010 it was announced that Stone had created recipes for in-flight meals for United Airlines.{{cite news |url=http://theglobalherald.com/curtis-stone-recipes-braised-short-ribs-and-chinese-chicken-salad/6450/ |title=Curtis Stone Recipes: Braised Short Ribs and Chinese Chicken Salad |access-date=27 October 2010 |last=Haywood |first=Linda |date=27 October 2010 |work=The Global Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029034415/http://theglobalherald.com/curtis-stone-recipes-braised-short-ribs-and-chinese-chicken-salad/6450/ |archive-date=29 October 2010 |url-status=dead }} In 2011, he was appointed as an ambassador for Cottage by the Sea, alongside big wave surfer Jeff Rowley and Olympian Cathy Freeman. The ambassadors help the Australian charity raise funds to provide short holidays for disadvantaged children.{{cite web| url=http://cottagebythesea.com.au/ambassadors/| title=Ambassadors of our Charity|website=Cottage by the Sea| access-date=2013-05-26| archive-date=20 September 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920022636/http://www.cottagebythesea.com.au/ambassadors/| url-status=usurped}} Stone also works with Feeding America, a domestic hunger-relief charity, and Second-Bite, which redistributes nutritional surplus food to those in need.{{cite web| title=Curtis Stone on Fatherhood and Fighting Hunger| url=https://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/curtis-stone-fatherhood-fighting-hunger| first=Lauren Paige| last=Kennedy| date=18 December 2016| website=WebMD| access-date=15 December 2024}}

Stone is best known in Australia for his more than a decade's long partnership with Coles Supermarket where he is the ambassador of their fresh food and recipes. In 2011, Stone described to GQ Australia his relationship with big supermarkets: "I never even thought about working for a supermarket. But there's that feeling you get when you walk down the street and someone comes up and says, 'You know what? We never used to cook fish in our house. Since we’ve tried that salmon recipe we have it once a week.' The feeling that gives you is worth a million other things".{{cite web| last=Smith| first=Nick| date=8 February 2011| title=Livestyle People: Curtis Stone| url=https://www.gq.com.au/life/people/curtis+stone,10507| access-date=20 March 2016| magazine=GQ Australia}} Stone and his team create recipes that feature in the monthly Coles Magazine and are very active in influencing how Australians eat, being credited with encouraging the supermarket to improve ethical sourcing.{{cite web| last=Rodell| first=Besha| date=2018-10-23| title=The double life of Curtis Stone| url=https://www.goodfood.com.au/eat-out/news/the-double-life-of-curtis-stone-20181018-h16ufl| access-date=2021-06-28| website=Good Food|language=en-au}} In the early years of the partnership, Stone's recipes were focused on helping Australians create meals for under $10.{{Cite web|last=Burrowes|first=Tim|date=2013-07-26|title=Coles in fresh $10 meals push|url=https://mumbrella.com.au/coles-in-fresh-10-meals-push-169582|access-date=2021-06-28|website=Mumbrella|language=en-US}} Winn-Dixie, an American supermarket, took the same strategy and signed Stone by launching "Cooking with Curtis for under $10" in 2015.{{cite news| last=White| first=Nancy| title=Winn-Dixie, celebrity chef Curtis Stone launch 'Cooking with Curtis for under $10'| url=https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20150916/ENTERTAINMENT/801253243| access-date=2021-06-28| newspaper=The Florida Times-Union| location=Jacksonville| language=en| archive-date=28 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628160256/https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20150916/ENTERTAINMENT/801253243|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last=Trigaux| first=Robert| date=6 January 2016| title=Behind Winn-Dixie price cuts, a CEO strategy borrowed from Australia| url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/retail/behind-winn-dixie-price-cuts-a-ceo-strategy-borrowed-from-australia/2260176/| access-date=2024-12-15| newspaper=Tampa Bay Times| language=en}}

Stone voiced the character Todd in the 2016 DreamWorks Animation film Trolls and 2017 half-hour Christmas special Trolls Holiday.{{cite web |last=Moore |first=Camille |date=2021-05-03 |title=10 Things You Didn't Know about Curtis Stone |website=TVovermind |url=https://tvovermind.com/curtis-stone/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |language=en-US}}

Stone began dating American actress Lindsay Price in late 2009 after meeting on a blind date.{{cite news| title=Aussie chef running hot abroad| newspaper=Herald Sun| location=Melbourne| date=5 February 2011| url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/aussie-chef-running-hot-abroad/story-fn6bn9st-1226000473230| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914104621/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/aussie-chef-running-hot-abroad/story-fn6bn9st-1226000473230| url-status=dead| archive-date=14 September 2012| access-date=28 February 2011}} Stone and Price got engaged in July 2012,{{cite news| first= Sarah| last=Michaud| title=Curtis Stone Engaged to Lindsay Price| url=https://people.com/celebrity/curtis-stone-lindsay-price-engaged/| magazine=People| date=2012-07-12}} and married on 8 June 2013 in Spain.{{cite news| first= Brittany| last=Galla|title=Lindsay Price, Curtis Stone Get Married in Spain| url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lindsay-price-curtis-stone-get-married-in-spain-201396| magazine=Us Weekly|date=2013-06-09}} They have two sons,Stone, Curtis. (21 November 2011). [https://twitter.com/curtis_stone/status/138782563660603393 "Chef Curtis Stone Twitter post"].{{cite news| first=Sarah| last=Michaud| title=Curtis Stone, Lindsay Price Welcome First Child| url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20544756,00.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123201250/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20544756,00.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=23 November 2011| magazine=People| date=22 November 2011}}{{cite news |url=http://celebritybabies.people.com/2014/09/18/curtis-stone-lindsay-price-welcome-son-emerson-spencer/ |title=Curtis Stone and Lindsay Price Welcome Son Emerson Spencer |date=18 September 2014 |access-date=20 March 2016 |magazine=People |first1=Anya |last1=Leon |first2=Sonal |last2=Dutt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920205453/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2014/09/18/curtis-stone-lindsay-price-welcome-son-emerson-spencer/ |archive-date=20 September 2014 |url-status=dead }} Hudson and Emerson, and live in Los Angeles.{{cite magazine| url=https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/curtis-stone-lindsay-price-la-hollywood-50561| title=Curtis Stone and wife Lindsay Price in LA| date=27 August 2018| access-date=2019-07-24| magazine=The Australian Women's Weekly}}

Stone is a fan of the Geelong Football Club.{{cite news |url=http://parade.com/23383/parade/30-parade-chats-with-curtis-stone/ |title=PARADE Readers Chat With Curtis Stone | date=30 April 2012 | magazine=Parade | access-date=18 November 2012}}

• Surfing the Menu, 2005
• Surfing the Menu, again
• Cooking with Curtis, 2006
• Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone, 2009
• What's For Dinner? 2013
• Good Food, Good Life, 2015

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