# Resume: Impossible - Chef Robert Irvine dropped from Food Network **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083 "2008-03-04T19:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/1 "2008-03-04T19:47:20Z")
Story at [Yahoo! News](http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20080303:people_chef_dismissed). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/2 "2008-03-04T19:57:58Z")
The [St. Petersburg Times article](http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/17/Southpinellas/TV_chef_spiced_up_his.shtml) is hilarious. I’m not sure what’s stranger- his claim that the Queen of England knighted him and gave him a castle or his plan to build two neighboring restaraunts called Ooze and Schmooze. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/3 "2008-03-04T20:08:09Z")
Good riddance. He’s an abusive prick, IMHO. But geez, the guy gets all the way into his 4th season before they find out? Weird. This quote from him is rich: > [@](#): > > “I have never berated a chef in my life,” Irvine said. Pffft. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/4 "2008-03-04T20:08:45Z")
Aww… I enjoy that show! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/5 "2008-03-04T20:43:04Z")
The Network is trying to come off as disappointed in their star, and says it wants folks to be able to trust what they see on the networks shows. So, didn’t anyone think to, oh, actually\*\*\* check\*\*\* his resume before hiring him? Irvine shouldn’t have spiced up his resume, but someone dropped the ball when he was brought on board. Ah, what does it matter? I don’t like the show anyway. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/6 "2008-03-04T20:58:08Z")
Yeah, I like the show, and 95% of the time I liked Irvine. At least the show will continue. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/7 "2008-03-04T22:37:53Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] The Network is trying to come off as disappointed in their star, and says it wants folks to be able to trust what they see on the networks shows. [/QUOTE] didn’t this just happen to them with “The Next Food Network Star”? Why don’t they have some intern going through resumes right now, double checking everyone? Getting caught twice is just silly. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/8 "2008-03-04T22:45:47Z")
Sad. I like Irvine, and I like the show. But somebody at the Food Network should lose their job over this for not checking his resume. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/9 "2008-03-04T22:52:13Z")
Aw, man, I liked him! ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/10 "2008-03-04T22:57:45Z")
I’m torn. I like his show generally, but he does come off as a prick in a lot of episodes. I have to wonder if these people didn’t have any common sense. It seems like everyone involved with the project was a little nutty. Ooze and Schmooze? He’s a Knight Commander? The Queen gave him a castle? You have got to be kidding me. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/11 "2008-03-04T23:03:41Z")
Wow, that’s a wild story. Dinner Impossible is my favorite show on the Food Network. I’ll be sad to see Irvine go. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/12 "2008-03-04T23:14:57Z")
I like this part- “The Food Network said it might revisit its decision at the end of this season”- so if ratings go up as a result of the controversy, or if the replacement gets worse ratings, all will be forgiven. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/13 "2008-03-05T00:20:01Z")
This sucks. ☹ I liked him and now I’m terribly disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/14 "2008-03-05T01:06:54Z")
I figure, two seasons in, make him do some sort of public penance (a PSA or charity-gig) and maybe institute a paycut, but he’s been tested already on the show (which I really enjoy) and proved himself effectively, so cancelling the show seems to be cutting off their nose to spite their face. But that’s just if it’s about the lying. Since he appears to be in financial trouble, that’s a different matter, and I don’t blame them for seeing him as damaged goods. Too bad–I really do like the show and he seems to be a good-natured guy. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/15 "2008-03-05T02:40:14Z")
Wow, this is hilarious. I love the show too, and am very disappointed it’s going off the air. But really, I’m thinking the Food Network deserves all the egg on its face for not checking facts. I mean, the Food Network can serve up fiction just fine (à la Iron Chef), but it takes a special kind of willful negligence to present your star’s exaggerations in the _opening of every episode_ of the “reality show”. It would have been better to make up a character for Robert Irvine, like they did for the Chairman’s nephew or another network did for the nannies on Nanny 911. I mean, he was already into self-aggrandizing, why not go all the way and make him out to be some kind of superchef? According to the St. Petersburg article, he already had a knight’s costume… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/16 "2008-03-05T02:52:02Z")
From the link in the OP > [@](#): > > “I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family,” Irvine said in a written statement. “I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.” I mean really. Maybe this is a question for GD or the Pit, but do people actually want and/or believe apologies like this? I lied to get a job and now that I’m found out I am ‘truly sorry’ for misleading people? Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/17 "2008-03-05T04:18:33Z")
FWIW, Paula Deen has told two completely different stories about her life, one to Oprah and one to Chefography on Food Network. In the Oprah version, her husband left her saddled with two infant boys and no means to support herself but to walk from office to office selling sandwiches (poor Paula–wipe away tear). In the Chefography version, she started the sandwich business to keep herself busy, her two adult sons did the peddling, and she left her husband when she became uber-successful with her restaurant. Am I the only one that noticed? The episode of Oprah also featured Taryn Rose and the Sugar Rush guy. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/18 "2008-03-05T04:39:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] FWIW, Paula Deen has told two completely different stories about her life, one to Oprah and one to Chefography on Food Network. In the Oprah version, her husband left her saddled with two infant boys and no means to support herself but to walk from office to office selling sandwiches (poor Paula–wipe away tear). In the Chefography version, she started the sandwich business to keep herself busy, her two adult sons did the peddling, and she left her husband when she became uber-successful with her restaurant. Am I the only one that noticed? The episode of Oprah also featured Taryn Rose and the Sugar Rush guy. [/QUOTE] Didn’t she claim paralyzing agoraphobia in one “life story” and not the other, as well? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/19 "2008-03-05T04:42:47Z")
I watch that show every week. I don’t care about his resume. If they try to cast a new chef in his place, I will not watch it; imagine _Good Eats_ without Alton Brown. Somebody is getting an email tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083/20 "2008-03-05T05:27:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] FWIW, Paula Deen has told two completely different stories about her life, one to Oprah and one to Chefography on Food Network. In the Oprah version, her husband left her saddled with two infant boys and no means to support herself but to walk from office to office selling sandwiches (poor Paula–wipe away tear). In the Chefography version, she started the sandwich business to keep herself busy, her two adult sons did the peddling, and she left her husband when she became uber-successful with her restaurant. Am I the only one that noticed? The episode of Oprah also featured Taryn Rose and the Sugar Rush guy. [/QUOTE] You’re not the only one who noticed. I remember that episode very clearly. Speaking of Paula Deen, I thought her and Robert Irvine would make a great couple after I saw that Iron Chef episode with both of them. They should do a show together. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-impossible-chef-robert-irvine-dropped-from-food-network/440083.md?page=2)