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Ross Kelvin Burden (16 December 1968 – 17 July 2014) was a
celebrity chef
A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become a celebrity. Today, chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations, usually through the media of television and radio, or in printed publications. While television ...
from New Zealand. His early career was as a model and he became a chef later in life inspired by the time spent cooking with his grandmother.
Career
Burden's professional television career began after he reached the final of the
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MasterChef
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'' 1993. He frequently appeared on ''
Ready Steady Cook
''Ready Steady Cook'' is a BBC daytime TV cooking game show. It debuted on 24 October 1994 and the last original edition was broadcast on 2 February 2010. The programme was hosted by Fern Britton from 1994 until 2000 when celebrity chef Ainsley ...
'' for at least eight years, filmed a healthy-eating video with
Joan Collins
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, and made at least five series for ''
Taste
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''.
Burden published at least two books and wrote columns for two magazines. In May 2006, he appeared on ''
The X Factor: Battle of the Stars'' along with fellow chefs
Jean-Christophe Novelli
Jean-Christophe Novelli (; born 22 February 1961) is a French celebrity chef.
Early life
Novelli was born in Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France, in 1961. He left school at 14 and worked in a bakery before, at the age ...
,
Aldo Zilli
Aldo Zilli (born 26 Jаnuary 1956) is a celebrity chef specialising in Italian cuisine, based since 1976 in the United Kingdom. One of nine children, he was born in the small seaside town of Alba Adriatica in the central Italian region of Abruz ...
and
Paul Rankin
Paul Rankin (born 1 October 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a celebrity chef from Ballywalter, County Down, Northern Ireland. Rankin's parents moved back to Ballywalter, where he grew up, some time after he was born. This was stated when he was t ...
. In 2010, Burden judged the first season of ''
MasterChef New Zealand'' with
Simon Gault and
Ray McVinnie.
Personal life and death
Burden was born in
Napier, New Zealand, and brought up in
Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay ( mi, Te Matau-a-Māui) is a local government region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The region's name derives from Hawke Bay, which was named by Captain James Cook in honour of Admiral Edward Hawke. The region i ...
, New Zealand. A self-taught cook, Burden hosted and was a guest on programmes across the world. He was once voted one of the UK's most eligible bachelors. He was gay.
Burden died in
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about ...
on 17 July 2014 of an infection relating to treatment for
leukaemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ...
. In November 2014, it was revealed Burden had died of
Legionnaires' disease due to the infected water supply in the hospital.
References
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1968 births
2014 deaths
British television chefs
LGBT people from New Zealand
Gay entertainers
Gay writers
New Zealand expatriates in England
People from Napier, New Zealand
The X Factor (British TV series) contestants