Anne Burrells inner circle shocked and confused after chef is found dead surrounded by pills

Anne Burrell’s inner circle is in deep mourning after her tragic death.“We’re all shocked and confused,” a source close to the late Food Network star told People on Tuesday.Burrell passed away on the morning of June 17 at her home in Brooklyn.She reportedly suffered a “cardiac arrest” and was found “unconscious and unresponsive” on the shower floor by her husband, Stuart Claxton, and pronounced dead at the scene.A source told The Post that Burrell’s body was discovered next to dozens of pills.

The New York Times later reported that the NYPD was investigating her death as a possible overdose.The night before her death, the celebrity chef performed an improv comedy show in Brooklyn.“She was having the best night,” actress Jane Margolis, a member of Burrell’s improv troupe, told People.“She’d come up with these one-liners out of the blue that were just hysterical,” added Margolis.“She really was so into it.” During the improv show, Burrell “was in great spirits” during and after the event, a source who was with her that night previously told People.Many of Burrell’s friends and colleagues have remembered her fondly since her passing.“She gave constant encouragement to invite other women into the field of cooking,” Chef Alex Guarnaschelli said to People, noting that Burrell was special because of her “girl chef’s sensibility.”Chef Sunny Anderson added that the “Worst Cooks in America” host “didn’t shrink for TV.

TV kind of had to contain her.”Meanwhile, chef Tyler Florence called Burrell “a force of nature.”“That ‘it factor’ people talk about with celebrities? She had it in spades,” Florence, 54, told People.“She was so big people would just fall all over her.”Elizabeth Eaton Rosenthal, the influencer who appeared in Burrell’s final Instagram post, told the Daily Mail on Monday that Burrell was “very happy” when they ran into each other just days before the star’s death.“Sh...