Darnell Ferguson
American celebrity chef
Darnell Ferguson is an American chef, television personality and restaurateur.
Early life and education
Darnell Ferguson was born in 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. In high school, Ferguson was inspired by Emeril Lagasse's television cooking series, Emeril Live, and spent a year of high school enrolled in vocational cooking school. He attended Sullivan University in Louisville, Kentucky. Ferguson was selected with a group of 20 student chefs who cooked for Team USA in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
Career
Ferguson is the former owner of restaurants Super Chefs, and Tha Drippin Crab in the Russell neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
Ferguson's television career began in 2015, after an appearance first on the local news and later on The Rachel Ray Show where he talked about his journey from selling drugs to owning restaurants. During The Rachel Ray Show television appearance Ferguson met his hero, Emeril Lagasse.
He is the co-host alongside chef Anne Burrell of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America (season 25).
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