"Top Chef" Runner-Up Needs to Pay Up

1. Why is this woman just now filing a petition when the "child" is 17? Sounds like she is up to no good. He should request a paternity test first.

Posted at 6:09AM on Nov 1st 2008 by not2breckonedwith

2. This sounds like all the black crap that has been on this sight. I can't believe white people do the same thing.Wait till the guy has a little something then go get him. Hang on girl,O bama gonna take care of you with my money.

Posted at 8:11AM on Nov 1st 2008 by anokie

3. Contestant Erik Hopfinger restaurant Circa is a horrible neighbor for San Francisco residents. Residents complain of bottles being broken in the middle of the night, trash left outside their homes, and delivery trucks blocking garages. Plus, how can you trust anyone who smokes to buy fish?

Posted at 8:47AM on Nov 1st 2008 by CircaJerk

4. Why now? She didn't want child support for the last 17 years, if she had they would have already been to court and there would have already been an order.

Posted at 9:09AM on Nov 1st 2008 by Yea

5. Hey people here is an FYI... Richard was presented with paperwork about 10 years ago offering to turn over all rights as a parent and he refused... then couldn't be found until he popped up on TV!!! So this IS someone who should take responsibilitly for their child!!! Just think how his 1st daughter must feel seeing him online claiming to be a first time parent!!!

Posted at 10:54AM on Nov 1st 2008 by family memeber

6. You bail out 15 years ago, don't call or don't send a birthday and that's always taking responsibility???? c'mon!! Responsibility is being around to watch your child grow up, to be there to help with all the bumps and bruises, to be there thru all the good times and bad times, and to just BE THERE. as someone with 1st hand knowledge of the situation he has had numerous opportunities to make things right, and just like his stint on Top Chef...HE FAILED!!!!! HE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE A FATHER!!!!! He never even acknowledged her on his myspace page(asked about having kids and his reply was.. someday) I feel bad for his 2nd daughter as she has no clue that her daddy is a DEADBEAT!!!!

Posted at 11:24AM on Nov 1st 2008 by realdad1

7. it dosent matter when the mother is asking for what she ie owed what matters is that blaise never maned up to pay child support he is a piece of crap dead beat dad.he should take care of his responsibility if not just do the right thing,he better not see me on the streets

Posted at 1:55PM on Nov 1st 2008 by his food sux anyway

8. Hey #6 & #7 sperm doesn't make you a "Father". Parenting makes you a Father. That's why he said he was looking forward to being a parent...he's never done it before. Up until this woman petitioned him, he was nothing more than a sperm doner.

Posted at 2:45PM on Nov 1st 2008 by Suze

9. I am appalled. Blais is a deadbeat. Samething occurred in my family. This deadbeat disappeared from the face of the earth and then shows himself on tv. It was a gift for this mom to finally find this guy and get him to pay. New father my a--. The guy is hurting the poor kid he has abandoned and the mom is being questioned? Do DNA if you must. There is no question. >Look at the picture. He is who he is, now pay up. If it were my family I would try getting as much as I could and go back as far as i could. Good luck Samantha. Go get him!!!!!

Posted at 5:10PM on Nov 1st 2008 by babyjoe

10. What a shame to discover this. I really liked this guy. It just goes to show you that reality tv does not present the reality of the contestants. He loved to talk about how excited he was to be a first-time father and it turns out he's been a father for nearly 2 decades. What a creep. He's a deadbeat dad and he should pay child support for his first-born child --- from the day she was born. The tragedy is compounded by the fact that his daughter didn't know her biological father. He can never make it up to her or make up for lost time. He is the loser - in more ways than one.

Posted at 6:19PM on Nov 1st 2008 by Blais is a loser

11. that poor child didnt ask to have a dead beat as a father,, MAN UP

Posted at 9:55PM on Nov 1st 2008 by dead BEAT

12. How sad that there are people out there that think its ok not to pay for your child or to think its ok to never contect her how can you walk on this earth and never have the want to see your daughter or the care to see if she is ok.......an just to think you had another little girl.......that alone should have made you realize how important a father is in a childs life....2 year or 17 years dont make much of a diffrence...it is still your daughter that will never change no matter how many years go buy....

Posted at 10:07PM on Nov 1st 2008 by debra

13. WOW what kind of man runs away from his FIRST daughter for more that 17 years??? the only way his daughter can see who her father is, is by seeing what a LOSER he is on tv... what kind of WOMAN allows her husband to be out of his daughters life for that many years?? what about his family, you just go on pretending that you dont have a granddaughter/ niece/ cousin.. saves you money on the holidays! and to you MS SUZE COMMENT #9... Your right your "friend "he is a sperm donar, thats all he will EVER be. he shouldnt be able to reproduce EVER again! and yes white people go through his to.. black,white, a DIRT BAG IS A DIRT BAG, THEY COME IN ALL DIFFERENT COLORS! crazy how you people think its ok for him not to support his child, regardless of how long its been, so call samantha what you want, but she has EVERY right to ASK HIM TO HELP SUPPORT HIS DAUGHTER! YOU DISAPPEARD FOR 17 YEARS NOW ITS TIME TO MAN UP!!!

Posted at 10:16PM on Nov 1st 2008 by gia

14. RICHARD IS A FUDGIN DEAD BEAT J.O. WITH THAT RETARDED FAUXHAWK! HE NEEDS TO GET A BRUSH AND BRUSH THE SAND OUT OF HIS PISS FLAPS AND BE A MAN INSTEAD OF A SLACKER(MCFLY...HELLO..U DUMB WIENER!!!)! I HOPE HIS CAREER GOES UP IN A BLAIS LIKE HIS FCKN MANHOOD AND NEEDS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIMSELF. THIS YOUNG GIRL IS SOOOOO MUCH BETTER OFF WITHOUT THIS CATASTROPHY (PIECE OF MIERDA)OF A HUMAN BEING AND HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF AND GROW UP AND STOP PLAYING POSSOM! J.O. J.O. J.O. J.O. J.O. HE'S A BIGGER POOK THAN POOKIE IN NEW JACK CITY!!! WHEN HE WAS MADE GOD DEFFINITELY BROKE THE MOLD BECAUSE HE NEW HE DESIGNED A P.O.S.!!!!!

Posted at 10:27PM on Nov 1st 2008 by DEEEEEEEZ NUTS

15. If this guy took responsibility like his lawyer says then why on national TV did this jerk say that he was expecting his first child? Hey guy if you don't acknowledge your first born I don't think that's accepting responsibilty or making you father of the year. Hey wifey, did you know that your husband fathered a child that he never acknowledged or took care of? Don't you think if he did it to one child that he could do it to another child very easily? This guy must be so stupid that he goes on national TV after he has been hiding out all these years and he didn't think that the skeletons he was trying to hide in his closet would be exposed? Hey Blais you a$$hole if you won Top Chef were going to send a check to your daughter that you never took care of finally? Come on TMZ, are you going to investiage this? Isn't that what you do? This guy went on national TV looking for notoriety and you should give him exactly what he was looking for. If he isn't a dead beat then just post his cancel child support checks. I can't even imagining what this girl must have felt watching Top Chef and hearing this loser talk about another family after he was MIA for all these years. Embarass this a$$hole and make him suffer just like his daughter and her mother probably have been for all these years. What a pompous jerk this guy is to think he could put himself on nationally TV and get away with this. EXPOSE THE MUTHA F'ER!!! I can't wait to hear his BS excuses or see him cry on TV. Every dog has his day and this dogs day is coming. TMZ make sure that we all see it. This little girl and her mom needs some justice.

Posted at 11:50AM on Nov 2nd 2008 by wooster