37 Facts About Curtis Stone

Curtis Travis Stone was born on 4 November 1975 and is an Australian celebrity chef, author and television personality.

Curtis Stone began cooking with his paternal grandmother, Maude, at the age of four.

Curtis Stone's father, Bryan Stone, is an accountant, and his mother, Lorraine, is a florist; they separated when Stone was 2 years old.

Curtis Stone attended an all-boys high school where he took home economics class and then went on to a commercial cookery apprenticeship at a vocational school.

Curtis Stone studied for a Bachelor of Business before deciding to pursue a career as a chef.

Curtis Stone worked in Australian restaurants before leaving to work in London, where he debuted his cooking career at age 18 at the Savoy Hotel.

Curtis Stone returned briefly to Australia to make the travelling cooking show Surfing the Menu with another chef, Ben O'Donoghue.

Curtis Stone has appeared on a number of cooking programmes in the UK, including Dinner in a Box, Good Food Live and Saturday Kitchen.

Curtis Stone hosted the first season of My Restaurant Rules in Australia.

On 14 January 2011, Curtis Stone co-hosted the fourth hour of Today with Hoda Kotb.

Curtis Stone has appeared on Martha Stewart's show Martha, Access Hollywood, Lopez Tonight, The Nate Berkus Show, The Talk, The Chew, and Rachael Ray.

On 7 June 2011, Curtis Stone was a guest on Conan, where he taught Conan O'Brien how to prepare the perfect date night meal.

Curtis Stone has appeared on Food Network's Iron Chef America in the episode "Battle Skipjack Tuna," where he lost to Iron Chef Bobby Flay.

Curtis Stone has appeared on several episodes of The Biggest Loser.

Curtis Stone was a candidate on The Celebrity Apprentice 3, which premiered in March 2010 and was the third installment to the celebrity version of The Apprentice.

Curtis Stone has made appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Curtis Stone appeared on a segment of Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure, a four-day television event that aired in January 2011.

In June 2010 producers of NBC's new series America's Next Great Restaurant announced that Curtis Stone would join the judging and investment panel on alongside Bobby Flay, Steve Ells and Lorena Garcia.

The first season aired in 2011 directly followed by the fourth edition of The Celebrity Apprentice, where Curtis Stone made a guest appearance on the first episode.

In 2011, Curtis Stone became host of the third season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters, replacing Kelly Choi.

Curtis Stone hosted and anchored the judges' table for the Top Chef franchise's spin-off edition, Top Chef Duels, in 2014.

Curtis Stone returned to MasterChef in May 2015 for a MasterClass alongside Marco Pierre White.

Curtis Stone began hosting Kitchen Inferno in 2014 and mentored Food Network's debut culinary competition, All Star Academy, in 2015.

Curtis Stone appeared on the network again in summer 2015 for two episodes of the show Guilty Pleasures.

In 2015, Curtis Stone made an appearance on the second season of Celebrity Family Feud.

In 2017, Curtis Stone co-hosted the FOX reality cooking series My Kitchen Rules.

Curtis Stone has previously appeared in the original Australian version of the program.

In 2019, Stone's series Field Trip with Curtis Stone began on PBS.

In 2021, Curtis Stone was a judge on the first season of Crime Scene Kitchen, and was the red team's chef's table guest diner during the second dinner service in Hell's Kitchen's twentieth season.

On 1 February 2014, Curtis Stone opened his first restaurant, Maude, in Beverly Hills which is named after his paternal grandmother.

Curtis Stone opened a second restaurant, Gwen, in Hollywood in 2016, named after his maternal grandmother.

In 2007, Curtis Stone hosted the Great Barrier Feast Culinary Masterclass event on Hamilton Island featuring other notable Australian chefs, including Geoff Jansz, Shannon Bennett, and Justin North.

Curtis Stone has written a series of cookbooks, including Surfing the Menu: Two Chefs, One Journey: A Fresh Food Adventure, Cooking With Curtis: Easy, Everyday and Adventurous Recipes for the Home Cook, and Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone: Recipes to Put You in My Favorite Mood.

In 2010, Curtis Stone gave a cooking class and demonstration at the Singapore Sun Festival.

In October 2010 it was announced that Curtis Stone had created recipes for in-flight meals for United Airlines.

Curtis Stone is best known in Australia for his more than a decade's long partnership with Coles Supermarket where he is the ambassador of their fresh food and recipes.

Curtis Stone began dating American actress Lindsay Price in late 2009 after meeting on a blind date.