'Top Chef' contestants: Where are they now?

Katie Lee Joel

It’s hard to remember life B.P. (Before Padma), but she wasn't the first host of “Top Chef.” Billy Joel's wife Katie Lee Joel filled those shoes in season one. After Bravo swapped Joel for god’s most perfect creature, she wrote a poor-selling cookbook and got her pictures taken at parties—thus fulfilling the intended fate of every reality reject and celebrity wife.