Nikki Martin

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Nikki Martin is an American lifestyle TV personality, author and celebrity chef, currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is perhaps best known as a chef on the eighth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star . [1] [2]

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Early life

Martin was born in Long Beach, California. At 17, she moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in entertainment. After a few television shows, movie appearances and a short stint at Harvard University, she decided her path was in lifestyle TV and the culinary arts. She has no formal culinary training and had attended Harvard to study and pursue medicine. But after realizing her path was set for the big screen and a life of creative endeavors, she merged her two passions of food and entertainment. In 2010, Martin auditioned for a Food Network show to begin her new career as a celebrity chef and lifestyle TV personality. Martin graduated from Aliso Niguel High School in 1998. [3] Martin resides in Los Angeles, working as a private chef for various celebrities. She has founded an underground dinner club known as The Roulette Society.[ citation needed ] With actor Jonathan Bennett, she co-wrote The Burn CookBook, a February 2018 release based on the cult film Mean Girls . [4]

Early media roles and Food Network

Martin has appeared on television shows, including Titus , Scrubs and Birds of Prey ; as well as films such as Sorority Boys and Looney Tunes: Back in Action . [5] She appeared on the Food Network series 24 Hour Restaurant Battle in July 2011, [6] competing with her best friend, Dana Chaney. [7] Since her first Food Network appearance she has been featured as a celebrity chef on several food and lifestyle programming including Chopped Grill Masters, Bravo's Going Off the Menu and is most remembered for her participation in the series Food Network Star; where Martin made a name for herself in the grilling world as "The Grill Next Door".

Food Network Star

In May 2012, Martin was chosen as a contestant on Food Network Star , season 8; she was mentored by Bobby Flay. She originally used the tagline "girl-on-grill", [8] [ permanent dead link ] [note 1] but because Food Network president Bob Tuschman found the double entendre to be too risqué, [9] she subsequently started calling herself "the grill next door". [10] Martin was eliminated from the show on July 15, placing in the top six. [11]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002 Sorority Boys Tri Pi
2003 Cradle 2 the Grave Ring Girl
Looney Tunes: Back in Action Wooden Nickel Waitress
2006Diamondz n da RuffMercedez
2012DisOrientationJenny

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 Scrubs Nurse1 episode
Titus Cheerleader1 episode
2003 Birds of Prey Marryann Travis1 episode
2011 24 Hour Restaurant Battle Herself
2012 Food Network Star Herself10 episodes [11]
2013 Food Saver InfomercialHerself1 episode
2016 MasterChef Junior Herself1 episode
2017 Chopped Grill Masters: Battle 4 Herself1 episode

Notes

  1. ↑ The term is a play on the phrase "girl-on-girl".

References

  1. ↑ "Star-a-Day: Nikki Martin". Food network. April 28, 2012. Archived from the original on April 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ Food Network Star Nikki Martin - About | Facebook. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  3. ↑ "O.C. native competing in 'Food Network Star' show". Orange County Register. June 15, 2012. Archived from the original on June 17, 2012.
  4. ↑ Fecteau, Jessica (3 October 2018). "Mean Girls' Jonathan Bennett Wants to 'Make Fetch-uccine Alfredo Happen' with the Burn Cookbook". People. Archived from the original on October 3, 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Nikki Martin – IMDb. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  6. ↑ "24 Hour Restaurant Battle" Episode #2.10 (TV episode 2011) – IMDb. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  7. ↑ City vs. Country : 24 Hour Restaurant Battle : Food Network. Retrieved November 7, 2012. Archived October 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ 'The Next Food Network Star': Who's Going to Win Season 8 - Yahoo! News. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  9. ↑ The Next Food Network Star - Show Tracker - latimes.com. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  10. ↑ The Grill Next Door | FoodiePleasure. Retrieved November 7, 2012. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. 1 2 Birmingham's Martie Duncan is a 'Food Network Star' finalist (updated) | al.com. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
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