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Antonia Lofaso 10 Personal Facts, Biography, Wiki
American chef
Born: November 23, 1976 (age 44 years), Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Partner: Heavy D
Children: Xea Myers
Books: The Busy Mom’s Cookbook: 100 Recipes for Quick, Delicious, Home-Cooked Meals
Nationality American
Profession Chef
Career 2010-present
Relationship Status Single
Divorce/Split Not Yet
Dating/Affair No
Boyfriend Heavy D (Died:2011)
Ethnicity/Race Sicilian-Italian
Brother/s 1
College International Culinary Center
Height/ How Tall? N/A
Weight N/A
Feet (Shoe) Size 8.5 (US)
Hair Long
Hair Color Light Brown
Eye Color Black
Lesbian No
Daughter/s Xea Myers
Date of Birth Nov 23, 1976
Age44 Years, 1 Months
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Lofaso has one daughter, Xea, born in 2000 from her relationship with recording artist Heavy D.
She also has a brother. Lofaso has Sicilian, Italian, and Jewish roots.
Lofaso attended the French Culinary Institute in New York City; during that time she was also a manager at Sean Combs’ restaurant, Justin. She then worked as a chef at the Los Angeles restaurants Spago and Foxtail.[1]
Lofaso is currently a co-owner and the executive chef of the Los Angeles restaurants Black Market Liquor Bar, DAMA, and Scopa Italian Roots.
In 2008, Lofaso appeared as a contestant on season four of the competition series Top Chef, also known as Top Chef: Chicago; she came in 4th place.
She appeared on season eight of Top Chef, known as Top Chef: All-Stars, from 2010 to 2011, coming in 3rd place.
In 2014 she appeared on an episode of Top Chef Duels, competing against Mike Isabella, who had beaten her on Top Chef: All-Stars; she won the “duel.”
In 2012, Lofaso appeared on the short-lived Game Show Network show Beat the Chefs; she was one of three professional chefs that the amateur chef contestants had to compete against.
The show ran for four episodes.
Since 2013, she has been one of a rotating group of judges on the Food Network competition show Cutthroat Kitchen.
She also competed in (and won) Cutthroat’s special “Judging Judges” episode, beating fellow regular judges Simon Majumdar and Jet Tila as well as Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian.
Since served as the restaurant adviser for seasons 2 and 3 of the CNBC competition/investment show Restaurant Startup, in 2015 and 2016.
She is a judge on Guy’s Grocery Games, on which she has also competed (and won).
In 2020, she appeared on Selena Gomez’s cooking show, Selena + Chef.
She also made an appearance on the 16th season of The Bachelorette, during the hometown episode.
The Top Chef alum had been dating famous American rapper, Dwight Myers, better known as Heavy D for a long time.
Dwight Myers was an American singer-rapper and the former leader of the hip-hop group, Heavy D & The Boyz that included background dancers and vocalists.
The pair had a daughter in 2000 named Xea Myers.
Antonia was not yet married to Heavy D but their relationship was going places and steadily sailing through plain waters.
Not just that, the couple had also been formulating plans of giving their relationship a name by turning husband and wife.
However, Antonia didn’t get to enjoy enough together time with her boyfriend as Heavy D passed away in 2011 due to pneumonia.
Antonia went through a hard time dealing with the death of her boyfriend but she recovered through her family’s support and her motivation to raise her daughter well.