Top Chef: Las Vegas Update: Cast, Premiere Date Revealed

As previously announced, Top Chef is headed to Las Vegas.

The sixth edition of this Bravo series will debut from there on August 26 - and the network has released the identities of the 17 contestants that will be competing for the grand prize, which includes $100,000.

The aspiring chefs are:

• Ash Fulk:  29-year-old from Pleasant Hill, CA
• Ashley Merriman: 32-year-old from Center Sandwich, NH
• Bryan Voltaggio: 33-year-old from Frederick, MD
• Eli Kirshtein: 25-year-old from Atlanta, GA
• Eve Aronoff: 40-year-old from Ann Arbor, MI
• Hector Santiago: 41-year-old from San Juan, PR
• Jennifer Carroll: 33-year-old from Philadelphia, PA
• Jennifer Zavala: 31-year-old from Cromwell, CT
• Jesse Sandlin: 30-year-old from Baltimore, MD
• Kevin Gillespie: 26-year-old from Atlanta, GA
• Laurine Wickett: 38-year-old from Rochester, NY
• Mattin Noblia: 29-year-old from Biarritz, France
• Michael Isabella: 34-year-old from Little Ferry, NJ
• Michael Voltaggio: 30-year-old from Frederick, MD
• Preeti Mistry: 33-year-old from San Francisco, CA
• Robin Leventhal: 43-year-old from Sun Valley, ID
• Ron Duprat: 40-year-old from Mare Rouge, Haiti

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