Watch : Tony Star Dominic Sessa Shares Biggest Surprise About Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain was famous for bristling at things. But perhaps he bristled at nothing more than being called a "bad-boy chef." Or even, eventually, "chef." "I've reached the point where I'm not the bad-boy chef," the author, TV star and globetrotting culinary ambassador— who died by suicide in 2018 when he was 61—told Toronto's Globe & Mail in 2010. "I'm not a chef.