Restaurant Critic, Bravo Call Stefan Richter “Fat”

Well, if we’re going to be precise about it, possums, what New York Magazine’s restaurant critic, Adam Platt, said about Stefan was this:

Am I wrong, or has he gained fifteen pounds since we saw him in NYC? He looked sort of pig-eyed. And he was drinking more than usual.

We can’t say Platt is entirely to blame for this perception, since the show’s editors did their best to foster it. The literal cheap shot you see above is how Stefan was introduced on last night’s episode, with a close-up of his belly.

Hosea, Fabio and Carla got the introductory shots you see below. Not exactly the same, eh?

Update: Fat Lance Bass No Longer Nameless or Fat; Amuse-Biatch Sends Apologies to Aaron Sorkin for Not Giving a Rat's Ass About "Studio 60"

Our thanks to reader Patricia, who earned another pair of wings for a blogger-cherub by correctly identifying the nameless fat Lance Bass on last week's Top Chef episode as Nate Torrence, an actor currently appearing on Aaron Sorkin's oft-mocked, ailing, unbeloved Saturday Night Live-derivative reprocessed byproduct and Matthew Perry comeback vehicle Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

And our apologies to Nate for calling him fat. IMDB says he appeared as himself on E!'s "101 Incredible Celebrity Slimdowns." And since E! can nE!vE!r to be wrong, our eyes must have deceived us, the blinding retinal after-image of that orange shirt concealing his true, incredibly slimmed down celebrityness. (By the way, is this the same diet that Best Week Ever's Christian Finnegan went on?)