Elizabeth Chambers

Elizabeth Chambers (born August 18, 1982) is an American television personality and entrepreneur. She appeared in various films, television series, and culinary shows. and In addition, she is the founder of the Texas-based BIRD Bakery retail chain.

Early life and education Chambers was born in San Antonio, Texas. She is the oldest of four children, and her maternal grandmother, Maureen Carnathan, was of British descent and raised in India; she helped care for her grandmother after she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Her parents divorced when she was two, and she and her mother left Texas, first for Colorado and then California, before returning to Colorado, where she attended high school.

Career Chambers’ first job was as a correspondent at Al Gore's television network Current TV. Chambers was later a news correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, E! News, and Access Hollywood, and was the chief correspondent for the Human Rights Foundation. and also appeared in various television shows, including Criminal Minds, Shark,

Chambers was the host of several culinary shows and filmed holiday cooking, including on the Cooking Channel (Sugar Showdown), Cupcake Wars, and Chopped Sweets), for interviews about her brand as a businesswoman. In 2020, Chambers was named to the University of Texas at Austin's "Outstanding Alumni" list. In 2024, she starred in the reality television series Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise. In 2025, she was the host of the Investigation Discovery true crime series Toxic.

BIRD Bakery

Chambers' mother and grandmother respectively owned one of San Antonio's first natural-food stores and ran a local catering company and sparked her interest in cooking. Chambers is the proprietor of BIRD Bakery, which opened in San Antonio in 2012 and in Dallas in 2016. Its baked goods are based on recipes from her grandmother's kitchen, and she said it "all felt very full circle" as the bakery in San Antonio is located one block away from the street where she was born. In February and March 2020, she was also a guest judge on Chopped Sweets. In June 2020, Chambers raised money for the San Antonio Food Bank. In October 2020, she launched Vision Visors, which made face masks for children. BIRD Bakery also partnered with cancer non-profit Salood, for which she helped design a cookie to benefit pediatric cancer patients. Unsold food at BIRD Bakery is boxed and picked up by local non-profits, including among others churches, fire, and police departments, the Fisher House Foundation, and the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chambers ran BIRD Bakery from the Cayman Islands, where she had relocated. In 2018, Chambers and Hammer bought a $4.7 million mansion in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, to raise their children. she moved to the Cayman Islands with their children.

Chambers and Hammer separated in July 2020. Citing irreconcilable differences, Chambers filed for divorce, which was finalized in June 2023. She said that for most of her marriage to Hammer, the couple was seeing psychotherapist Esther Perel, and Hammer himself admitted in a 2023 interview to Air Mail of having had an affair in 2016, that their sexual relationship involved "consensual non-consent" role play, and that he confessed the affair to Chambers, having turned down the offer to take part to it, she told E! News: "It was obviously heartbreaking on so many levels and very painful. But at the same time, it exists ... The past is the past and all we can do is take this as a moment to learn and listen, and hopefully process and heal in every capacity."

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2007 The Game Plan Kathryn

Television Year Title Notes 2005–2006 Criminal Minds Herself, 2 episodes ("The Fox" and "The Performer") 2007 Shark "Hot Woman", 2 episodes ("Wayne's World 2" and "Revenge of the Shark") 2007 Moonlight Uncredited "Victoria's Secret Model", 1 episode ("Sleeping Beauty") 2015–2017 Sugar Showdown Judge, 6 episodes 2015 The Kitchen Guest, 1 episode ("First Taste of Fall") 2016 Cupcake Wars Judge, 7 episodes 2016 2 Broke Girls Vanessa Nibotita, 1 episode ("And the Two Openings: Part Two") 2019 Best Baker in America Judge, 1 episode ("All-American Birthday Bash: Chocolate-Flavored") 2020 Chopped Sweets Chef and judge, 3 episodes ("Tiny Treats", "Tough Cookies", and "Million Dollar Desserts") 2024–present Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise Executive producer, 10 episodes 2025 Toxic Executive producer, 6 episodes