All of Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas season 2’s teams are new
Food Network’s holiday competitions this year include:
- Jesse Palmer and Holiday Baking Championship;
- Beat Bobby Flay: Holiday Throwdown, on which Bobby and male chefs will battle his girlfriend Brooke Williamson and female chefs, making this just like the holidays;
- a diminished version of that show that helps fund transphobia, which had its budget cut so it’s now being filmed in Canada; and,
- best of all, the return of Tournament of Champions: All-Star Christmas.
As with the first season, TOC’s holiday edition is a bracketed tournament between pairs of chefs, who will prepare one savory and one sweet dish.
Half of the chefs on season two competed in the first All-Star Christmas. However, none of the pairs are the same.
While I loved some of the duos and wouldn’t mind seeing them return, I also think this ensures the show stays fresh, giving us different dynamics—and perhaps some fun rivalries if former partners show up on opposite sides of the kitchen.
The new season premieres Nov. 8, with two-hour episodes every Sunday.
TOC All-Star Christmas season two’s duos
Tiffani Faison and Justin Warner will be back as sideline reporters, and Hunter Fieri will be back to embarrass himself, though not because he’s (hopefully) dressed like an elf.
Here are the season-two teams. I’ve bolded the names of all the chefs who were on the first season:
- Jet Tila and Alex Guarnaschelli
- Ashley Holt and Britt Rescigno
- Tobias Dorzon and Kenny Gilbert
- Marcel Vigneron and Hung Huynh
- Kevin Lee and Shota Nakajima
- Dale Talde and TJ Obias
- Mei Lin and Alex Stupak
- Sara Bradley and Nini Nguyen
- Stephanie Izard and Damaris Phillips
- Gabe Bertaccini and Zac Young
- Aaron May and Adam Sobel
- Grace Pak and Rocco DiSpirito
- Curtis Stone and Mitzi Reyes
- Brian Malarkey and Carlos Anthony
- Stephanie Boswell and Aarti Sequeira
- Molly Coen and Chayil Johnson
For reference, here are season one’s pairs:
- Antonia Lofaso and Alex Guarnaschelli
- Maneet Chauhan and Stephanie Izard
- Mei Lin and Nini Nguyen
- Jet Tila and Ashley Holt
- Lee Anne Wong and Zac Young
- Sara Bradley and Damaris Phillips
- Britt Rescigno and Jonathon Sawyer
- Michael Voltaggio and Bryan Voltaggio
- Marcus Samuelsson and Rachel Sherriffe
- Shirley Chung and Sherry Yard
- Kevin Lee and Dale Talde
- Aarón Sánchez and Amanda Freitag
- Tobias Dorzon and Marcel Vigneron
- Adam Sobel and Christian Petroni
- Aarti Sequeira and Crista Luedtke
- Graham Elliot and Giuseppe Tentori
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