# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:12:11.385Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-allen"
name: "Ted Allen"
slug: "ted-allen"
description: "Edward Reese Allen is an American author and television personality. He was the food and wine connoisseur on the Bravo network's television program Queer Eye, and has been the host of the TV cooking competition series Chopped since its launch in 2009, as well as Chopped Junior, which began in mid-2015. On April 13, 2014, he became the host of another Food Network show, originally called America's Best Cook. A retooled version of that show, retitled All-Star Academy, debuted on March 1, 2015. In early 2015, he also hosted a four-part special, Best. Ever., which scoured America for its best burgers, pizza, breakfast, and barbecue. He is a longtime contributing writer to Esquire magazine, an author of two cookbooks, and regularly appears on the Food Network show Beat Bobby Flay and other television cooking shows."
tagline: "American television personality"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TedAllen2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1965-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.17578836384549
  historical:           8.790641333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 67
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/thetedallen"
    handle:    "thetedallen"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/thetedallen/"
    handle:    "thetedallen"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "thetedallen"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm1388270"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://tedallen.net/"
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    title: "Ted Allen"
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    title: "টেড অ্যালেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8E%D8%AF_%D8%A6%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "تێد ئالن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ted Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Allen"
    title: "Ted Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Allen"
    title: "Ted Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517270"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump