Earlier than her sudden and surprising dying Tuesday, Meals Community star Anne Burrell was enthusiastic about performing improv, celebrating her fourth wedding ceremony anniversary in October and even cooking on Meghan Markle’s present and making an attempt the aspiring life-style guru’s notorious raspberry jam.
The beloved 55-year-old TV chef, identified for her spiky platinum hair and her high-energy capacity for bringing “punk,” “funk” and aptitude to the TV cooking world, was discovered “unconscious and unresponsive” at her residence in Brooklyn, New York Tuesday morning, as Individuals and different retailers reported.
Emergency responders arrived and pronounced her deceased. Her household introduced her dying to the general public, however didn’t cite a trigger. A New York Metropolis police spokesperson instructed Folks that the chief examiner’s workplace will decide the reason for dying, and an investigation stays “ongoing.”
The night time earlier than, Burrell “was in great spirits,” throughout and after she carried out an improv present at The Second Metropolis New York in Brooklyn, a supply instructed Individuals. The present was the finale of her course of improv lessons, in accordance with her Instagram. “Typical fun, outgoing Anne, having a blast,” a second supply instructed Individuals.
In April, that exuberance additionally was on show throughout an interview with the Every day Mail at New York Metropolis’s annual, star-studded Metropolis Harvest Gala, to lift cash to offer hundreds of thousands of meals to residents in want.
Burrell talked animatedly about how a lot she was having fun with married life to Stuart Claxton, whom she wed in October 2021 in an autumn-themed wedding ceremony, the Every day Mail stated. She additionally joked about showing on Meghan’s Netflix present, “With Love, Meghan.”
“Sure, of course. Why not cook with Meghan?” Burrell laughed after being requested if she would wish to be a visitor.
From Burrell’s response, it doesn’t sound as if she had ever been requested to be on Meghan’s present, a lot much less taped an episode — not like Alice Waters of Chez Panisse.
So, it’s questionable whether or not Burrell followers would get to get pleasure from her in a posthumous look on “With Love, Meghan,” the Netflix hospitality present starring the California-based Duchess of Sussex. “With Love, Meghan” wrapped its first, eight-season episode in March. The second season is scheduled to air someday within the fall, and people episodes have already got been filmed, Netflix has stated.
Within the interview with the Every day Mail, Burrell additionally revealed that she had by no means tried Meghan’s disputed raspberry “spread”
“I’m not really a jam girl,’ Burrell said, sharing that she sometimes makes scones for her husband. “I make scones and we have jam then. Other than that, I wouldn’t say I’m super jammy.”
Burrell and Clayton have been married in her hometown of Cazenovia, New York, and she or he talked to the Every day Mail about their upcoming anniversary. “October will be four years,” she stated. “It looks like it’s been 4 minutes. I don’t know if it’s a honeymoon (part), however I really feel prefer it’s settled into married life days which I actually get pleasure from.’
Burrell, finest identified for starring on the present “Worst Cooks in America,” regularly shared footage of her husband and their household, together with pictures of his son Javier from a earlier relationship. The media character additionally had grow to be enthusiastic about taking an “Improv for Actors” class, little question to hone her abilities as a performer and to achieve confidence in having the ability assume on the fly.
In a March 19 Instagram submit, she stated concerning the class: “Can I just say it is SO much fun and I am learning so SO much!!! It really helps me get out of my shell… as if I needed that!! #ilovewhatido #luckygirl.”
Initially Printed: June 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM PDT
