Chef Melissa King is best known as the winner of Bravo's Top Chef All-Stars Los Angeles Season 17 and the winner of All-Star's Fan Favorite. King holds more challenge wins than any other competitor in the show's history. She is the host of Tasting Wild, the National Geographic docuseries and serves as a guest judge on Top Chef, Food Network's The Julia Child Challenge, Pamela Anderson's Cooking with Love, and America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation. Along with being a chef-entrepreneur, event curator, television personality, philanthropist, and model, she is an activist who speaks publicly on issues of women's empowerment, LGBTQ+ rights, sustainability, food education, and diversity in entrepreneurship. Out Magazine named her one of the 100 LGBTQ+ individuals making a groundbreaking impact on the world.