- When the Top Chef 2020 final was recorded, restaurant owners were not yet asked for a meter distance between each table.
- Filmed before the Covid-19 epidemic, the finale was nevertheless affected by a virus.
How many times have I touched my neighbors' plates during the final of Top Chef 2020? Impossible contact today with barrier gestures. But in February, when the final of the competition - to which 20 Minutes was invited - was shot at the George-V in Paris, physical distancing was far from the news.
When the first two plates arrived on the table, everyone looked at the entrees proposed by David and Adrien and then turned them to see everything inside or to photograph them. A situation that has been repeated for dishes and desserts. There, my plates are passed from hand to hand.
The coronavirus epidemic has since broken out and these actions appear potentially highly contagious. While the restaurants have just reopened in Paris and the tables have to be a meter apart, at the time no distancing. At my table, eight chairs and seven people I don't know. I do not wear a mask to address these strangers or when I get up and leave to seek the advice of a Red Cross volunteer on the dessert of the two candidates. The production teams who also film and question the volunteers have no protection. And a hand can sometimes be placed on a shoulder to indicate its presence.
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His hands, Stéphane Rotenberg puts them on the arm or shoulder of Françoise Fromageau, Vice-President of the Red Cross - food not used by Top Chef is given to the organization and 100 volunteers are invited to eat for the final. Again, no backward movement and neither wears a mask.
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After the meal, when the production invites journalists to join the jurors. We do not pay attention to the door handles affected or the elevator buttons that we press. Nobody takes out their hydroalcoholic gel or goes to wash their hands (yet the toilets in the suite of the George-V, where the interviews with the chefs take place, are visited as luxurious as possible).
At the end of the evening, the volunteers of the Red Cross clap, the journalists too. It was a Top Chef final before Covid-19 but a final under the sign of the virus. Because, initially, it was to take place in January but one of the two candidates suffered from gastroenteritis.
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