Anthony Bourdain: Celebrity chef found dead at 61 Friday June 08,2018

US celebrity chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain has been found dead in his hotel room, aged 61, of an apparent suicide.

Bourdain was filming an episode of his CNN series Parts Unknown near Strasbourg in France when he died.

"It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain," the cable network said in a statement on Friday June 08,2018

Who was Anthony Bourdain?

He shot to fame in 2000 with a best-selling book called Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, a behind-the-scenes expose on the world of haute cuisine.

In the book he wrote candidly about his abuse of drugs, including cocaine, heroin and LSD.

The globe-trotting foodie travelled more than 250 days of the year to film his show.

His work brought him to far-flung and often dangerous locations such as Libya, Lebanon, and Gaza.

His first TV show was A Cook's Tour on the Food Network in 2002. Three years later he joined the Travel Channel with Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, picking up two Emmy Awards.

He moved to CNN in 2013 with a new travel and food show, Parts Unknown, which is in its 11th season.

Bourdain grew up in Leonia, New Jersey, an affluent suburb of New York City.

His father was a Yale-educated record executive, and his mother worked as a copy editor at the New York Times.

Bourdain was married twice, first to his high-school sweetheart Nancy Putkoski in 1985. They divorced after 20 years
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Two years later he married mixed martial artist Ottavia Busia and they had a daughter, Ariane, born in 2007.

They divorced in 2016, a split he blamed partly on his constant travel for work.

Last year Bourdain began a relationship with Italian actress Asia Argento, who directed an episode in which he visited Hong Kong.

He became an outspoken advocate for the #MeToo movement after Argento accused former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape