Former Miss Washington from Tri-Cities tapped for Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Next Level Chef’

Nicole Renard, a pageant veteran from Kennewick who known as the “Smoothie Bowl Girl” on social media, will compete for the title of Next Level Chef on a Fox reality show helmed by Gordon Ramsay.

Renard, who lives in Nashville, Tenn., graduated from Kamiakin High School and will compete in the “social media chef” category when the third season of the show premiers on Jan. 28.

She posted in a YouTube short about two weeks ago that she auditioned for the show and then was shocked when she got the call that she was picked to appear on the show.

“I am not a chef,” she said in the video. “I have no formal training. I have never worked in a kitchen and I didn’t go to culinary school.”

She was also “scared out of my mind,” she said.

But competing on the show turned out to be fun and “it forever change the way I cooked.”

Filming took about a month, she said.

Renard is a former Miss Tri-Cities Outstanding Teen, Miss Washington Outstanding Teen, Miss City of Orange and Miss Rainier. The Miss Rainier title gave her a shot at the 2017 Miss Washington title, which she won.

She competed for the 2018 Miss America title that year.

Renard studied television and broadcast journalism at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.

She runs a food and travel brand, “Nicole the Nomad,” and has more than 2.1 million followers on TikTok and 627,000 on YouTube, where she shares her smoothie bowls and snack obsessions.

She is also an actress who appeared in “Meritorius “ (2020), “Dodgeball Thunderdome” (2020) and the 2018 Miss America pageant (2017), according to IMDB.