Food Network Stuns Fans With Emotional Announcement: Anne Burrell’s Last ‘Worst Cooks in America’ Season Premieres This July—Inside the Shocking Reasons for Her Departure, Untold Behind-the-Scenes Drama, and the Special Tribute Episode That Will Leave Viewers in Tears—Don’t Miss This TV Event!

Jeremiah Alley

The final season of “Worst Cooks in America” featuring the late Anne Burrell will debut in July on Food Network.

Titled “Worst Cooks in America: Talented and Terrible,” the new season will premiere July 28 and will showcase “recruits who are professional performers and used to stealing the spotlight, but in the kitchen, they are dishing out disasters.” Burrell was joined by chef Gabe Bertaccini to host the season.

Additionally, on June 25 at 10 p.m., the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned cable network will air “a curated selection of encore episodes featuring Anne will highlight her extraordinary talent as a chef, competitor and teacher.”

Burrell, the former restaurant chef who hosted the Food Network‘s “Secrets of a Restaurant Chef” and co-hosted “Worst Cooks in America,” died June 17 in Brooklyn. She was 55.

“Anne Burrell was a one-of-a-kind talent whose loss is being deeply felt by family, friends and fans,” said Betsy Ayala, Warner Bros. Discovery head of food content. “With these special programming events, we hope to honor Anne and celebrate her impact on Food Network and beyond, and to offer fans a way to remember her passion and culinary prowess that ran through everything she did.”

Here is the planned programming block in tribute to Burrell, per Food Network:

Wednesday, June 25 – Special Anne Burrell Programming Block

10pm ET/PT – Guy’s Grocery Games – “All-Stars and A-Lister Dinners”
Culinary titans Anne Burrell, Eric Greenspan, Jet Tila and Marcel Vigneron aren’t spared Guy Fieri’s twists when a bowling game selects some strikingly bizarre ingredients for a hearty lunch. Next, the chefs have to think outside the boxed foods and make their best dish using processed items from the middle aisles of the store. Then, the chefs experience real highs and lows when the feared Food Wheel determines the high-end and low-end ingredients in their A-list dinner. One All-Star chef goes on a shopping spree for charity worth up to $20,000.

11pm ET/PT – Worst Cooks in America: Worst of the Worst
Count down the top 15 worst dishes ever from Worst Cooks in America. Terrible cooks from across the land present their worst-ever creations, from inedible spicy dishes to crazy flavor combinations that chefs didn’t dare taste. There’s even a winning dish in which the recruit might have lost a fake nail.

11:30pm ET/PT – Worst Cooks in America: Boot Camp Diaries
Take a deep dive into the boot camp training on Worst Cooks in America. The colorful cast of terrible cooks display their “skills” — from crazy knife techniques to struggles with mysterious vegetables — and almost burn down the camp with grease fires. Chef mentors will teach, but there’s only so much that Worst Cooks can learn!

Worst Cooks in America: Talented and Terrible – New Season Premieres Monday, July 28 at 9pm ET/PT

In the premiere episode, chefs Anne Burrell and Gabe Bertaccini have their work cut out for them as they attempt to turn a bunch of culinary train wrecks into kitchen stars, but first, they need to know what they are up against. The recruits kick things off with their signature showstopper dish, and in the main dish challenge, they tackle the ultimate test: recreating the chefs’ “winner winner chicken dinner.” Those with promise move on while the rest face elimination. Across the season, with guidance from Anne and Gabe, the recruits will tackle restaurant classics, try to master global cuisines, and compete in the fan-favorite Remote Control Chef challenge, in their bid to be the best of the worst.