US celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain dies of suicideUS celebrity chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain has died at the age of 61 as a result of suicide, the CNN network confirmed in a statement. US celebrity chef and television personality Anthony BourdainHis close friend Eric Ripert, a French chef, found Bourdain’s body hanging in a hotel room on June 8 morning in France. Bourdain died while on a business trip to Strasbourg, France, to work on a shoot for his series “Parts Unknown” on CNN. Anthony Bourdain 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. Three years later he joined the Travel Channel with Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, picking up two Emmy Awards.