He claimed that Cliff even started throwing chocolate bars at him. Weve created a community that connects people through open and thoughtful conversations about the TV were watching and the stories about it. Here's the head-shaving incident as shown on Wednesday's episode of Top Chef: I found it pretty upsetting to watch, perhaps because for part of my elementary school career, I was the weird kid, like Marcel obviously is in Top Chef. But last week, they crossed the line into physical assault, when Cliff woke a sleeping Marcel and held him down, while Ilan filmed it and yelled for either Sam or Elia to come get the clippers and shave Marcel's head. By Tom Colicchio. Definite thumb down. Which throws everyone's motivation into question, as far as I'm concerned. I jujst saw last weeks episode, and I can't believe how Ilan(?) The only thing left for us to ruminate upon was the suddenly heated relationship between Ilan and Marcel. Less drama, more cooking, I say.). Top Chef: All-Stars' Elia: There Was a Lot of Fighting You Didn't See That, DjLexxy writes, means that they shaved their heads after they tried to shave Marcels. In perhaps the mostcontroversial incident in Top Chef history, contestant Marcel Vigneron was held down against his will so a fellow contestant could shave his head. b>Ilan Hall knows a thing or two about turning heads. While viewers clearly know that Top Chef is a heavily edited show, we think they mostly assume that the footage they see was all captured at the moment. I never usually enjoy the first 5 episodes or so of Top Chef . Which also means that until Cliff got eliminated, none of them even felt the slightest bit of regret for what they'd done. Up until this week, I was pulling for Elia, but even her behavior was disgusting, so all of them can pretty much bite me (and I recommend all fans do the same -- boycott the last few episodes so that maybe with Season 3, they're a bit more selective over who they bring onto the show.