• Nancy Putkoski is the ex-wife of television personality, author and chef, Anthony Bourdain. • They were married for 20 years before their divorce in 2005. • Nancy's net worth is estimated to be over $1 million. • Nancy has stayed away from the spotlight and does not have any presence online. • Interest in Nancy's life has waned since her divorce and Anthony Bourdain's subsequent relationships.
Known for movies
Short Info
Net Worth
$6 million
Date Of Birth
June 25, 1956
Spouse
Ottavia Busia, Nancy Putkoski
Mark
Liberal use of swear words and sexual innuendo when describing food
Fact
Les Halles owner Jose Meirelles initially wanted Tony to go by the French version of his name, Antoine-Michel, much to Tony's protests.
Nancy Putkoski was born New Jersey, USA, and is best known as the ex-wife of television personality, author and chef, Anthony Bourdain. They were married for 20 years before their highly publicized divorce in 2005, having known each other since they were in high school.
The Wealth of Nancy Putkoski
How rich is Nancy Putkoski? As of early-2018, sources estimate a net worth that is over $1 million, earned through success in her various endeavors. Her wealth also significantly increased during her marriage to Anthony Bourdain, who has an estimated net worth of $16 million. As she continues her working life, it is expected that her wealth will also continue to increase.
Early Life and Meeting Anthony Bourdain
Not many details are available about Nancy’s life before she met Bourdain. It is known that she attended Dwight-Englwood School in New Jersey, and during her time there, would eventually meet Anthony. The couple would date for a few years before getting married in 1986. She would go on to pursue college studies after matriculating from high school, but there is no information available about the institution she attended or degree she took. Nancy mainly stayed in the background while her husband slowly earned popularity and fame in his career. She liked to maintain her privacy, so details about her family and even her career were kept away from the media spotlight. It is known that the couple never had children, and there has been speculation as to why, but no confirmed answer.
The Chef Anthony Bourdain
While the couple continued a strong and supportive relationship, Bourdain would go on to study at the Culinary Institute of America, subsequently leading him to become a part of numerous professional kitchens as the years passed, including at Brasserie Les Halles where he became the executive chef. He would steadily make his way to become one of the most influential chefs around the world. In 2000, his book entitled “Kitchen Conffidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” found a lot of popularity, and increased his fame. He also forayed unto television which he started doing various television world travel cooking shows. He was a part of “A Cook’s Tour” series on the Food Network, and he also hosted the Travel Channel program entitled “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations”. However, around this time in 2005, his relationship with his wife started to become troubled, which would eventually lead to their divorce. He would go on to continue his career even after his separation from Nancy, and is best known for his current program entitled “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”. He’s received numerous accolades and achievements throughout his career.
Divorce
During the time that the couple was breaking down and heading into divorce, Anthony said that having a camera crew on him was quite troublesome as his personal life started to mix in with his ongoing professional television career. He would find himself with less time to have privacy with his wife, which contributed to further the friction they were already experiencing. Even though he referred to her multiple time as the “love of his life”, the couple would eventually break down even after trying to keep their marriage together. According to reports, Anthony would later state that his constant travelling became the main problem that set them on the path to divorce, which was finalized in 2005 after they had been separated for a year. Since they never had a child, there was not much trouble with the divorce settlement. After the decree nisi, Nancy moved on with her life but laid low, rarely attracting any media attention in her future ventures. On the other hand, Anthony’s popularity increased, and he eventually settled down two years later with mixed martial artist Ottavia Busia. However, that marriage also ended in divorce after nine years, apparently again due to Bourdain’s intense travelling schedule.
Is Nancy Putkoski on Social Media?
Similar to many of the wives or ex-wives of famous television personalities, Nancy has stayed away from the spotlight for most of her life, and does not have any presence online, including avoiding the social media accounts on popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. This is also the very reason that the media has had trouble catching up to her. With her ex-husband going on to have further relationships after the divorce, interest in her life has also waned over the years that have passed.
General Info
Full Name
Anthony Bourdain
Net Worth
$6 million
Date Of Birth
June 25, 1956
Height
1.93 m
Profession
Screenwriter, TV Personality, Television producer, TV chef, Author, Television presenter, Actor
Education
Vassar College, The Culinary Institute of America
Nationality
American
Family
Spouse
Ottavia Busia, Nancy Putkoski
Children
Ariane Bourdain
Parents
Gladys Bourdain, Pierre Bourdain
Siblings
Christopher Bourdain
Accomplishments
Awards
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host, PGA Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series Or Special, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program, James Beard Foundation Award for Who's Who of Food and Bev...
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Nonfiction Programmin...
Movies
Bone in the Throat
TV Shows
The Taste, The Layover, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Top Chef, The Mind of a Chef
Liberal use of swear words and sexual innuendo when describing food
Quotes
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Quote
1
Vietnam is my favorite destination. The people are wonderful, the food is fantastic, and there is a lot of mystery and beauty surrounding it. You learn something new every time you go there, and I can't say that about other destinations.
2
If I had to choose, I'd pick the hole in the wall dump over the gentrified bistro owned by your average pretentious hipster every time.
3
If you want to know if a chef has true cooking ability, ask them to make you eggs. That meal will reveal more than anything else.
4
I believe taking your child to McDonald's should be considered grounds for having your parental rights revoked.
5
As a child growing up in New Jersey, I speak on behalf of every child that ever grew up there in saying that your purpose in life was looking across the bay to New York City and figuring out a way to end up there.
6
[about fast food] In-N-Out Burger is my fast food nirvana. It's the only place I will seek out and eat. The rest I avoid.
7
I'm pretty sure that every time Guy Fieri puts barbecue pork inside a nori roll, an angel dies.
8
Those days are best left in the past. Sometimes I think about the excitement, the energy, the stress that working a kitchen involved, and I remember how young, naive, confident I was back then. The kitchen is at its best when new, cocky, limber, innovative chefs are in control.
9
The organic movement has good intentions, but I doubt in the long term that it'll be sustainable. It's helping people learn where their food comes from and being more aware of what junk corporations put into it, and that's good. My daughter has only been given organic and natural foods since she's been born.
10
Nobody will tell you this, but I will: If you're thirty-two years old and considering a career in professional kitchens? If you're wondering if, perhaps, you are too old? Let me answer that question for you: Yes. You are too old.
11
If you're comforting yourself with the dictum "Never trust a thin chef," don't. Because no stupider thing has ever been said.
12
If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel-as far and as widely as possible.
13
Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone ... Bad food is fake food ... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Food that's too safe, too pasteurized, too healthy - it's bad! There should be some risk, like unpasteurized cheese. Food is about rot, and decay, and fermentation.as much as it is also about freshness.
14
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living
15
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
16
I have exactly the same work ethic. I don't see writing as anything more important than cooking. In fact, I'm a little queasier on the writing. There's an element of shame, because it's so easy. I can't believe that people give me money for this shit. The TV, too. It's not work. At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift. A few months ago, I was sitting cross-legged in the mountains of Vietnam with a bunch of Thai tribesman as a guest of honor drinking rice whiskey. Three years ago I never, ever in a million years thought that I would ever live to see any of that. So I know that I'm a lucky man.
17
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself
18
When Tony gets hungry, things die.
Facts
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Fact
1
He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
2
His mother was of Ukrainian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent, and his father was of French ancestry.
As a guest on BBC TV's Breakfast (2000) (2 September 2010), Bourdain surprised hosts Bill Turnbull and Susanna Reid when he disclosed that his all-time favorite restaurant was the British "St. John" run by friend and chef Fergus Henderson in London's Smithfield district.
5
He and Ottavia Bourdain welcomed their first child, a girl named Ariane Bourdain, on April 9, 2007. She weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz.
6
His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Times, The Observer, Scotland on Sunday, The Face, Limb by Limb, Black Book, and The Independent, and he is a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine.
7
He studied at Vassar College, worked for some time in the seafood restaurants of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America before running kitchens at New York City's Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue and Sullivan's.
8
Les Halles owner Jose Meirelles initially wanted Tony to go by the French version of his name, Antoine-Michel, much to Tony's protests.
TV Series documentary executive producer - 36 episodes
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
2013-2015
TV Series documentary executive producer - 20 episodes
Bone In The Throat
2015
executive producer
The Taste
2013-2015
TV Series executive producer - 15 episodes
The Getaway
2014
TV Series executive producer - 1 episode
The Layover
2011-2013
TV Series documentary executive producer - 13 episodes
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
2011-2012
TV Series documentary executive producer - 18 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
TV Series documentary 2 episodes, 2013 writer - 18 episodes, 2013 - 2015
Bone In The Throat
2015
based on the book by
The Layover
2011-2013
TV Series documentary 13 episodes
Treme
2011-2012
TV Series story - 4 episodes
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
2009-2012
TV Series documentary 18 episodes
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Holiday Special
2011
TV Series
Kitchen Confidential
2005-2006
TV Series book - 13 episodes
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Treme
2011
TV Series consultant - 10 episodes
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Big Short
2015
Anthony Bourdain
Sanjay and Craig
2015
TV Series
Anthony Gourmand
Archer
2013
TV Series
Lance Casteau
Yo Gabba Gabba!
2010
TV Series
Dr. Tony
Far Cry
2008
Scientist (uncredited)
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
2013
TV Series documentary additional camera - 2 episodes
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Kyoto: A Journey Inside
2016
Documentary special thanks
The Sheik
2014
Documentary special thanks
Triple Rush
2011
TV Series additional thanks - 4 episodes
Ratatouille
2007
special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Last Night at the Carlyle
2017
Documentary post-production
Himself
The Mind of a Chef
2012-2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Narrator / Narrator
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
2013-2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
Conan
2016
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Chew
2013-2016
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself - The Taste
CBS This Morning
2012-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Chef
Weekend Today
2016
TV Series
Himself
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
2016
Documentary
Himself
2016 Creative Arts Emmys
2016
TV Movie
Himself - Nominated: Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming and Winner: Outstanding Informational Series or Special
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2016
TV Series
Himself
Inside Amy Schumer
2016
TV Series
Himself
WGN Morning News
2015
TV Series
Himself
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
TV Series
Himself - Guest
2015 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2015
TV Movie
Himself - Winner: Outstanding Informational Series or Special / Nominated: Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Remembering David Carr
2015
Documentary
Himself
New Day
2015
TV Series
Himself - Reporter
The Taste
2013-2015
TV Series
Himself - Host
BELLOmag Presents: A Conversation with the Taste
2015
TV Movie
Himself - Guest
Entertainment Tonight
2014
TV Series
Himself - The Taste
Good Morning America
2013-2014
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself - The Taste
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2006-2014
TV Series
Himself - Guest
2014 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2014
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
TV Series
Himself
The View
2014
TV Series
Himself
Inside Edition
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself
2013 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2013
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Outstanding Informational Series or Special (uncredited)
Piers Morgan Tonight
2012-2013
TV Series
Himself / Guest Host
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2010-2013
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
The Layover
2011-2013
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
Mankind the Story of All of Us
2012
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Chef & Writer
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
2005-2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
AMC Mob Week
2012
TV Movie
Himself
Comic Con 2012 Live
2012
TV Movie
Himself
The Daily Show
2012
TV Series
Himself
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Holiday Special
2011
TV Series
Himself
The Simpsons
2011
TV Series
Himself
Late Show with David Letterman
2005-2011
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Real Time with Bill Maher
2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest
MasterChef Australia
2011
TV Series
Himself - American Chef and author / Himself - American Chef and Author
Charlie Rose
2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Top Chef
2006-2011
TV Series
Himself - Judge / Himself - Guest Judge / Himself / ...
The Hour
2010
TV Series
Himself
Breakfast
2010
TV Series
Himself - Chef
Tavis Smiley
2010
TV Series
Himself
Larry King Live
2010
TV Series
Himself
Katz's: That's All
2010
Documentary
Himself
Life After Dark: The Story of Siberia Bar
2009
Documentary
State by State
2008
Video short
Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2002-2008
TV Series
Himself
Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
2007
TV Series
Himself
What's Your Trip
2007
TV Series
Himself - Host
After Hours with Daniel Boulud
2006
TV Series
Himself
Miami Ink
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself - Client
Good Morning Australia
2005
TV Series
Himself
The Truth About Gordon Ramsay
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Christine Cushing Live
2004
TV Series
Himself
Nova
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself
A Cook's Tour
2002-2003
TV Series
Himself - Host / Himself
Molto Mario
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself - Guest
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013
Documentary
Himself
Top Chef
2010
TV Series
Himself - Judge
Awards
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2016
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2016
Critics' Choice TV Award
Critics Choice Television Awards
Best Reality Show Host
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2014
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2014
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Culinary Program
The Mind of a Chef (2012)
2014
Gold World Medal
New York Festivals
Best Nonfiction Series
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2014
PGA Award
PGA Awards
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2013
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2016
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2016
PGA Award
PGA Awards
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
The Taste (2013)
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2015
Critics' Choice TV Award
Critics Choice Television Awards
Best Reality Host
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2015
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Culinary Program
The Mind of a Chef (2012)
2015
PGA Award
PGA Awards
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2014
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program
The Taste (2013)
2014
IDA Award
International Documentary Association
Best Episodic Series
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
2013
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program