Food Network Star Anne Burrell Dead at 55

Food Network star and celebrity chef Anne Burrell has died in NYC … TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … EMS personnel received a call of a woman in need of assistance Tuesday morning after Burrell was found unresponsive in her Brooklyn home.

Paramedics were unable to revive Burrell and decaled her dead. The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine her cause of death.

The New York native hosted “Worst Cooks in America.” She trained at the Culinary Institute of America, graduating in 1996. She was a culinary instructor for a time, and hosted other Food Network shows, including “Secrets of a Restaurant Chef,” and she appeared on the ‘Iron Chef’ series.

Burrell is survived by her four children, her brother, her sister, her mother, and her husband.

We’ve reached out to Anne’s reps for comment.

Burrell was 55.