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Kim and Khloe Kardashian are checking out the world’s largest gourmet food festival!

The famous sisters got a tour by festival creators B.J. Novak and chef Tim Hollingsworth as they toured the festival grounds and tasted the food on Saturday (Oct. 5) in Los Angeles.

B.J. and Tim launched Chain last year, which is the world’s first and largest gourmet food festival. Chain collaborates with some of your favorite chain restaurants to reimagine and elevate the classic menu items that you know and love.

It appears as if Kim and Khloe were filming the food festival for their Hulu reality show The Kardashians as they were followed around by a camera crew.

Kim and Khloe weren’t the only stars checking out the food festival. We compiled photos of the stars in attendance so you can see who was there!

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Grab a fork, ChainFEST is coming back.

After last year’s inaugural outing, the largest gourmet chain food festival will roll out a second installment at Downtown L.A.’s Skylight on Oct. 5. Tickets go on sale Friday. ChainFEST is an off-shoot of Chain, the high-concept experiment inspired by chain restaurant dining co-founded by The Office star B.J. Novak and Michelin-starred chef Tim Hollingsworth along with producers Jack Davis and Nicholas Kraft, talent manager Byron Ashley and entrepreneur Abe Burns.

Hollingsworth is handling the “culinary direction” for the event, which has added more restaurant partners and interactive experiences. Per a release, ChainFEST L.A. will feature more than 15 exclusive gourmet collaborations and activations from partners including Domino’s, KFC, Panda Express, Cracker Barrel, White Castle, Johnny Rockets, Krispy Kreme, Red Robin, Red Lobster, Dutch Bros, Hot Dog on a Stick, Trader Vic’s and more. Koo Koo Roo will also make...

Togo-born dynamo Adjo Honsou has won Season 3 of PBS’s The Great American Recipe, the warm-hearted cooking show whose competitors represent cuisines from different regions of the United States and often, the countries they or their ancestors originally hail from. Adjo, a former bio tech scientist, impressed judges Francis Lam, Tim Hollingsworth, and Tiffany Derry, with dishes from her early years in the West African country. TV Insider asked her about the experience on her show, her favorite dishes, and the future with food. How does it feel to be the winner on The Great American Recipe’s third season? Adjo Honsou: It feels wonderful to be able to represent my culture and heritage and sharing it with such phenomenal cooks. I really, really loved it. As this season’s champ, what are you rewarded with? This season I know that PBS is not doing a cookbook, but I think...

Gentlemen, re-start your engines.

Apple TV+ has picked up Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s Long Way… motorcycle docuseries for another 10-episode season, TVLine has learned. The renewal comes nearly four years after the Long Way Up season, which was released in September 2020.

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“On a rather tricky, sandy bit of Long Way Up, Charley and I started to daydream about another trip to keep our minds off the scary road at hand! This is that trip,...

Exclusive: Paradigm Media Entertainment’s Two Twelve is getting into the production business.

The agency’s Two Twelve Management & Marketing is launching Boiling Point Entertainment, a production company focused on food and lifestyle.

It becomes the latest agency to move into the world of unscripted content creation; Endeavor owns stakes in businesses such as Velvet Hammer Media and Asylum Entertainment Group and UTA launched UK business Headers and Volleys Entertainment with Nick Emmerson last year.

The move comes two years after Paradigm acquired three management and marketing companies focused in the worlds of broadcast news, culinary and on-air media personalities to launch Paradigm Media Entertainment.

Boiling Point Entertainment has struck a first-look deal with ITV America’s High Noon Entertainment, which makes series such as HGTV’s Fixer Upper, Good Bones and Farmhouse Fixer, TLC’s Cake Boss and Hulu’s Superhot: The Spicy World of Pepper People.

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Blink Twice, It Ends With Us, The Umbrella Academy and Borderlands.

The Umbrella Academy premiere

Stars Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin H. Min walked the carpet at the fourth and final season premiere of their Netflix series on Monday in Los Angeles.

David Castañeda, Elliot Page, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Tom Hopper, Ritu Arya, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin H. Min It Ends With Us premiere

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate and Hasan Minhaj debuted their big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s hit novel in New York City on Tuesday, with support from Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.

Brandon Sklenar, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Colleen Hoover and Tony Vinciquerra, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment...

Chrissy Teigen is joining Chain, the concept restaurant and food company founded by actor B.J. Novak and Michelin-starred chef Tim Hollingsworth, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.

The model-turned-cookbook author and entrepreneur will be joining the company as a strategic investor and advisor as Chain expands ChainFEST (the company’s gourmet chain food festival), creates food programming and builds new IP, according to a release.

“There’s simply no event like a Chain event, and Lord knows I’ve been to a lot of parties and consumed my fair share of fast food. To join a company that commands the intersection of fast food culture and pop culture, that has a literal Michelin-starred chef at the helm, is an actual dream,” Teigen said in a release.

“I love how fast Chain is growing, and I’m excited to help turbo-charge that growth,” she added.

Teigen has published two cookbooks — Cravings:...

He may have lost the first round of the late-night pizza wars to Jimmy Kimmel, but Jimmy Fallon is back on the scene with what promises to be a formidable new challenger.

Fallon, who’s no stranger to tasty food collaborations (see his two Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors), has found a new partner in Pizza Hut and the Los Angeles concept restaurant Chain

Founded by chef Tim Hollingsworth and actor B.J. Novak, Chain serves gourmet dishes inspired by American chain eateries. Its latest offering is “Jimmy’s Personal Pan Pizza.”

Although it’ll only be available for three days, organizers say Fallon might just “OutPizza the Hut” with his four-cheese pan pizza, which includes “a 24 month aged Vacche Rosse parmigiano and Chef Tim’s spicy red sauce.”

Entry to the pop-up will set diners back $50 per person, but each ticket includes a personal pizza served in a collectible box,...

Chain, launched by B.J. Novak and chef Tim Hollingsworth, collaborates with some of your favorite chain restaurants to reimagine and elevate the classic menu items that you know and love.

Now, the new company is launching its most exciting venture to date: ChainFEST!

B.J. and Tim just announced that ChainFEST will be held at Hollywood’s Nya Studios on December 1, 2, and 3.

Instead of partnering with just one brand, there will be seven iconic chain restaurants participating in the event. Chili’s Grill and Bar, Dunkin’, Jack in the Box, Panda Express, Pizza Hut, Sonic Drive-In and Red Robin are the chain restaurants being featured in the first-ever ChainFEST.

The event will feature one reimagined menu item for each of the seven iconic chain restaurants.

“I love chain food. It’s as worthy of celebration as any other type of cuisine, and it’s high time it got the respect it deserves,...

B.J. Novak is continuing to invest in his love for chain restaurants, following up his Chain pop-up concept by launching the world’s first chain food festival.

ChainFEST, set to take place Dec. 1 and 2 at Hollywood’s Nya Studios, will feature one reimagined, iconic menu item inspired by each classic chain restaurant, including Chili’s Grill and Bar, Dunkin’, Jack in the Box, Panda Express, Pizza Hut, Sonic Drive-In and Red Robin. The one-of-a-kind food and beverages will only be available during the two-day event and will be paired with beverages from Pepsi and specialty cocktails from Diageo brands Guinness, Smirnoff, Crown Royal and Captain Morgan. Postmates will offer on-site delivery.

Chain was started in 2021 by Novak and Otium head chef Tim Hollingsworth as a way to tap into the nostalgia consumers feel for chain restaurants. They launched by cooking up homages to childhood favorites in abandoned L.A. alleys during...

On March 7, B.J. Novak, with Otium chef Tim Hollingsworth, launched Chain, a WeHo pop-up that serves gourmet takes on dishes from Tgi Fridays, Chili’s, California Pizza Kitchen and the like. Chain debuted with a limited-quantities version of Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion (dubbed the Bustin’ Onion), followed by a March 21 drop of “The Sauce Box” with chicken tenders, French fries and a trio of BBQ, sweet truffle honey and black garlic ranch sauces.

The goods, which can only be preordered on its private Instagram account (selling out in minutes, with The Sauce Box at $20),...

On March 7, B.J. Novak, with Otium chef Tim Hollingsworth, launched Chain, a WeHo pop-up that serves gourmet takes on dishes from Tgi Fridays, Chili’s, California Pizza Kitchen and the like. Chain debuted with a limited-quantities version of Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion (dubbed the Bustin’ Onion), followed by a March 21 drop of “The Sauce Box” with chicken tenders, French fries and a trio of BBQ, sweet truffle honey and black garlic ranch sauces.

The goods, which can only be preordered on its private Instagram account (selling out in minutes, with The Sauce Box at $20),...