11-Year-Old Competes on MasterChef Junior After Losing Both His Parents — Food TV

The new season of MasterChef Junior premiered last week, and one of the young stars of the first episode is 11-year-old Ben Watkins, an aspiring chef from Gary, Indiana. The precocious young cook dreamed of becoming a chef someday, and even sold his own baked goods at his parents' barbecue restaurant, Big Ben's Bodacious Barbeque & Deli. But on September 16, 2017, he lost both his parents in an unimaginable tragedy when his father shot and killed his mother, then himself, in what investigators ruled to be a murder-suicide.

READ MORE »