Darnell Ferguson Biography
Darnell Ferguson is an American chef, media personality, and restauranteur. He and chef Anne Burrell co-host the Food Network show Worst Cooks in America. He has also appeared on HGTV’s Home Town Takeover, The Big Holiday Food Fight, the Food Network’s Chopped, Supermarket Stakeout, Tiny Food Fight, Guy’s Grocery Games, and Tournament of Champions.
How old is Darnell Ferguson? – Age
He is 37 years old as of 5 March 2024. He was born in 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Darnell Ferguson Family – Education
He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Ferguson was inspired by Emeril Lagasse’s television cooking show, Emeril Live, and spent a year of high school attending vocational cooking school. He attended Sullivan University in Louisville, Kentucky.
Darnell Ferguson Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Darnell Ferguson The Rachel Ray Show
His media career began in 2015, with an appearance on local news and then on The Rachel Ray Show, where he discussed his transition from heroin dealer to restaurant owner. Ray’s culinary show has celebrity guests discussing their achievements in the entertainment, sports, and media professions. The show, like The Oprah Winfrey Show, features health suggestions, makeover segments, and musical performances. Ray keeps cooking in the spotlight by featuring cooking sequences at the end of each show and inviting prominent guests to join her in the kitchen. Ray’s husband, John Cusimano, wrote and recorded the show’s theme music, while The Neville Brothers performed the original theme tune.
Darnell Ferguson Career
Ferguson was roused by Emeril Lagasse’s TV cooking series, Emeril Live, and spent a time of secondary school signed up for professional cooking school. He went to Sullivan College in Louisville, Kentucky. Ferguson was chosen with a gathering of 20 understudy gourmet experts who cooked for Group USA in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
At the point when he got back to the US, he began getting captured for selling drugs and went to prison multiple times. During his last visit to prison before 2024, Ferguson promised to at absolutely no point ever return in the future and joined a congregation. He was removed and lived in his vehicle for at some point, prior to firing a spring up eatery in Louisville in 2012. His TV profession started in 2015, after an appearance first on the nearby news and later on The Rachel Beam Show where he discussed his excursion from offering medications to possessing eateries. During The Rachel Beam Show TV appearance Ferguson met his legend, Emeril Lagasse.
The 25th time of Food Organization’s unscripted tv series, the Most awful Cooks in America debuted on January 1, 2023 with Ferguson as one of the hosts close by gourmet expert Anne Burrell. On January 9, 2024, Ferguson was captured by Louisville Metropolitan Police in the Louisville suburb of St. Matthews on seven crook accusations, including theft, strangulation, and different charges. He then showed up in court on January 10, where he argued not liable and had his bond set at $10,000. His primer trial was likewise booked for January 18, 2024.