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I never considered her personality "engaging." I'm sure they used a lot of her clips because she rarely put any kind of stopper on her comments. I wasn't sorry to see her go and think she should have been gone quite a while ago. There were a couple of other people who were actually better chefs that got booted while Amanda stayed. She seemed to hang on by virtue of luck, not skill.
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> There were a couple of other people who were
> actually better chefs that got booted while Amanda
> stayed. She seemed to hang on by virtue of luck, not
> skill.
I'm not suggesting that she didn't deserve to get cut when she did. <-SPOILER
She made mistakes pretty often, but for the most part they were small. When those others -- perhaps better chefs -- made mistakes, they were huge.
Kenny, for example, was clearly talented and an early favorite for the win, yet he certainly deserved to get cut. He made bad food. As I recall, they called his beet salad "dreadful."
She wouldn't have made it to the show at all if she didn't have talent. All of those people are immensely talented, even if they weren't shown at the top of their game on tv. "Top Chef" is not like "Hell's Kitchen" where they'll stick in a stay-at-home mom and a recent culinary school grad or two just for the color. She's a Cordon Bleu graduate and she's worked under some of the best chefs in the business.
What I'm suggesting is that the producers like her, she's clearly captured the attention of much of the audience, she's got skill and she's not hard to look at. They could easily build a show around those qualities.
She's rough around the edges, but with a little work, she could have a very successful cooking show. Given the quality of some of non-entities who have had shows on the Food Network, she'd outclass most of them in an instant just because she already knows how to cook and can explain what she's doing without resorting to a prompter or cue-card.
