Anyone else catch the Rachael Ray Show that debuted this week? I DVR’d it for the wife and we flipped it on last night when we realized that Project Runway was a rerun. So how was it? Not good.
First, Rachael herself seemed broken down. Her voice was hoarse, and she was over-hyper in a weird way. The show is self was like ADD-TV. She talked for a while, make some 60 second snacks or something, went sky diving, and it kept going from there. Her first guest was Diane Sawyer, but I wandered off before she came on so I don’t know how that went.
Anyone catch more than that? Has she gotten any better over the week? This isn’t anything I’ll watch anyway (Ellen cracks me up and I don’t have time for her show, I certainly can’t work in someone else), but I’m always curious how new shows do at the beginning of the season.
I have no evidence for this except for my own observations of her (is it four?) Food Network shows and my own experiences and those of my friends, but…I swear she must be a heavy drug user. Sometimes she has this weird, crackly, almost phony energy like someone on speed, coke or e. Other times, she looks like she’s been up for thre days straight – circles under the eyes, thrashed vocal chords, bleary expression.
I saw about two minutes. That’s Mrs. Ray in a nutshell. I recall the first time I caught her on FoodTV. For about 5 minutes, I was worshipping my new food goddess. That was all it took for that super perky attitude to overwhelm her looks. I worked with someone that perky once. After I got out of prison, I vowed to avoid perky people at all costs.
OK, I really didn’t beat her with a stick, but it was an effort on a daily basis to avoid doing so.
Um…I’m not sure that would be the most flattering context for Rachael these days. She’s been sampling a few too many of her own 30 minute meals. Either that, or she’s been spending a little too much time taking culinary sojourns on **$80 ** a day.
Why do network execs think anyone who is popular should automatically host a talk show? There are dozens of other type shows to pust your cash cows in (can anyone say variety hour?). Didn’t they learn anything from the Magic Johnson debacle? Don’t they know real interviewing is a skill, and if it isn’t going to be a real interview show, then why a talk show? I see now some third rate comedian named Greg Behrandt (sp?) has a new talk show debuting in the fall- what is the target audience for this, the 38 or so people who see him at Chuckles each night?
One of my favorite things about her shows is the amount of time that must be consumed figuring camera angles that don’t give away the fact that she has a giant butt. She always has had more padding than frame in the postierier and notice that you never get a full on butt shot of her. Giada The Giant Head on the other hand spends more time showing off her attributes than actually cooking (I think )
Greg Behrendt is the author of a popular self-help book called He’s Just Not That Into You, and another one called It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken. I read parts of the first one, and most of it seemed pretty obvious to me, but I guess some people need to be told these things.
I like Rachael Ray’s recipes, and I think she’s hot, but a talk show? Sweet God, no.
Rachel is not a porker in any way, shape, or form. What she isn’t is the size 0 or less TV standard. Recent interview, she said she’s between a 2-4. It’s idiotic to the extreme that people see that as a porker. WTF - if the collarbone isn’t visible, someone’s fat?
A few months ago, I was in a restaurant that RR had visited. I asked my server if he had been working that day. He said, “No, but Jessica might have.” So he calls over Jessica, who comes to our table and tells us about it.
The bullet points:
This server did not actually wait on her, but was working that day.
RR is just as loud and bubbly, even when the cameras aren’t rolling.
She also said, “She’s real curvy–just not up here, like me,” as she’s cupping her hands out in front of her breasts.
Well, that’s what I heard, even though she didn’t actually say “like me.”
Maybe she’s not quite a “porker” but she’s definitely carrying some excess fat. She’s still very attractive. I can’t stand perky people, but I could think of a couple good ways to keep her quiet.
WTF - I can’t turn on Food Network without RR being rammed down my throat, now she has a talk show? The woman makes me ill. Maybe she reminds me of some bubble gum-crazed perky gym teacher or cheerleader from high school - I don’t know. But I’m positive some marketing bozo decided she was the ideal personality to sell World Market kitchen crap to the 18-35 demographic.
Noticed that back when she had the cut abs in the FHM spread. Tight sweaters just don’t hang right on her.
There’s nothing ‘excess’ in what she’s carrying. TV and movies have convinced too many that the inability to count ribs = excess fat. Outside of the media fantasyland, it simply isn’t true.
I dunno, man: on her $40 a day Hawaii episode, she wore a bikini for most of the day and was clearly carrying some excess on the hips, thighs and ass. I’m not saying she isn’t attractive (she is), but baby got back.
I want to know how anyone can watch any of her shows. I can’t even turn off the volume, because I still ‘hear’ her perkiness. So I’ve missed any show where we might have been treated to a recent, fleshier RR than appeared in FHM. I saw a couple of minutes on her inaugural talk show. I was home sick, flipping channels, and stopped when I saw it, expecting a train wreck. Her dress for the show was frumpy - I don’t think anyone could have looked good in it. Still, I didn’t think her ‘fat’.
I would do more research to determine what the Straight Dope[sup]TM[/sup] is, but I can’t. Even poking pencils through my eardrums wouldn’t be enough. It seeps directly into the brain, and I’d rather not be the subject of a pit thread for serial killing every perky person in a 20 mile radius.
First of all, the woman has a personality like a metal rasp. Second, I don’t know why men think she’s sexy–her breasts look like she cut a tennis ball in half and shoved it in her bra.
Ugh. Hate her show(s). Go to great lengths to time my tuning-in to Alton Brown so that I don’t have to experience a single second of her.
She’s Tony Bourdain’s latest Food Network personality to ridicule. On his latest season of No Reservations, as he sloshes about in Balinese rice paddies or hikes up to Machu Picchu, he’ll often take a dig at her: “Let’s see Rachael Ray do this on $40 a day!”
