Dylan Benoit is a

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-born

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who currently hosts the Food Network Canada/ Cooking Channel television series ''

Fire Masters ''Fire Masters'' is a Canadian cooking competition television series that began airing simultaneously on Food Network Canada in Canada and Cooking Channel in the United States on July 6, 2019. The show is presented by chef Dylan Benoit, and it fe ...

''.

Early life and education

Benoit was born in

Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to: People * Scarborough (surname) * Earl of Scarbrough Places Australia * Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong * Scarborough, Queensland, sub ...

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; but his family relocated to Midhurst before eventually settling in

Barrie Barrie is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada, about north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, the western arm of Lake Simcoe. Although physically in Simcoe County, Barrie is politically i ...

. After attending St. Joseph's High School, he attended

George Brown College George Brown College is a public, fully accredited college of applied arts and technology with three campuses in downtown Toronto (Ontario, Canada). Like many other colleges in Ontario, GBC was chartered in 1966 by the government of Ontario and ...

and graduated with a

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Personal life

Benoit worked under

Mark McEwan Mark McEwan is an American-born Canadian celebrity chef based in Toronto, Ontario. He was head judge on Food Network Canada's ''Top Chef Canada''. McEwan had his own television show on Food Network Canada entitled ''The Heat'', which followed h ...

at ONE

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prior to becoming a

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. He currently hosts the Food Network Canada/ Cooking Channel television series ''

''. Since 2010, Benoit has resided in the

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* 1980s births Date of birth missing (living people) Canadian television chefs Living people People from Scarborough, Ontario Canadian male chefs Chefs from Toronto {{chef-bio-stub