 Naomi Pomeroy's body was recovered from an Oregon river on Wednesday, four days after the Top Chef star died in a freak tubing accident. Pomeroy's family confirmed that she drowned in a river accident while in her tubing in the Willamette River with her husband, Kyle Linden Webster, on July 13th. The family saying the couple's flotilla flipped after hitting a snag. Webster made it to shore, but Pomeroy did not. Pomeroy was an award-winning chef and a star on the third season of the cooking show called Top Chef Masters. Ted Lindner, Fox News.