Damaris Phillips | |
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Born | Damaris Lennon Phillips [1] December 8, 1980 [2] Lexington, Kentucky, United States [3] |
Education | Jefferson Community and Technical College [4] |
Spouse | Darrick Wood (m. 2015) |
Culinary career | |
Cooking style | Southern cooking |
Website | www |
Damaris Lennon Phillips (born December 8, 1980) is an American chef and television personality. In 2013 she won the ninth season of the Food Network television series Food Network Star . She hosted the Food Network show Southern at Heart for five seasons from 2013 to 2016. In 2018, she began co-hosting The Bobby and Damaris Show on Food Network with Bobby Flay.
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Phillips was born in Lexington, Kentucky. On June 13, 2015, she married Darrick Wood in Louisville, Kentucky. [5]
Damaris Phillips graduated from Jefferson Community and Technical College, where she earned a degree in Culinary Arts. [4] She has stated that she decided to attend culinary school because she "didn't know what to do in life". [6] Phillips later went on to become a culinary instructor. [7]
In early 2013, Phillips was a contestant on the ninth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star . [6] As one of the final three contestants, she filmed a pilot for a potential series called Eat, Date, Love. [8] Phillips was announced as the winner of the competition on August 11, 2013. [4]
As a reward for winning Food Network Star, Phillips got her own show on Food Network, Southern at Heart . The show premiered on October 27, 2013. [9] The first season aired on Sundays at 10:30 am/9:30c and consisted of six episodes. [10] The show ultimately ran for five seasons, from 2013 to 2016, with most seasons consisting of 13 episodes. Phillips posted regular show reviews and updates to her Facebook page. [11] An episode airing on April 19, 2015, was watched by 816,000 viewers. [12]
Since September 2017, she has co-hosted The Bobby and Damaris Show on Food Network with her former Food Network Star co-judge Bobby Flay.
In October 2017, she began co-hosting Southern and Hungry with Rutledge Wood (her brother-in-law) on Cooking Channel. [13]
Damaris frequently appears on Guy's Grocery Games as both a judge and as a competing chef.
She often raises money for charity when competing, most frequently for the story program in Louisville, Kentucky.
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