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A fire rips through the upstate New York home of celebrity cook Rachael Ray. Jeff St. John =================================================================================== A home belonging to celebrity cook Rachael Ray was reportedly on fire in upstate New York on Sunday night. Fire crews were battling flames at the home in Lake Luzerne, as the Warren County Sheriff’s Office told ABC10 the residence belonged to the television personality. Images showed the flames shooting through the roof of the home.

The Most Hated Celebrity Chefs Jess Bolluyt The Cheat Sheet August 6, 2017 Celebrity chefs are everywhere. They host reality TV shows, judge cooking competitions, publish cookbooks, and open their own restaurants. Along the way, many of them ruffle a few feathers. Many celebrity chefs are genuinely talented. But some have polarizing personalities. Some have boring shows and lackluster recipes. And others are, plain and simple, badly overrated. Read on to check out the celebrity chefs everybody — sometimes including their fellow chefs — loves to hate. More Here’s Why Guy Fieri Is One of the Most Hated Celebrity Chefs...

Rachael Ray To Joe Biden: 'You Have The Most Glowing, Perfect Skin Of Any Person I've Ever Seen' By Jeffrey Meyer Created 03/31/2014 - 11:27am ABC’s Rachael Ray hosted Vice President Joe Biden for an pre-taped interview which aired on Monday March 31 to push people to sign up for ObamaCare before the midnight deadline. Ray began the segment by beaming that Biden had “The most glowing, perfect skin of any person I’ve ever seen” before telling the Vice President “I really want to know what moisturizer you use. I love moisturizers, my husband is a moisturizer as well. Would...

Rachael Ray get's hammered by her viewers. They did not appreciate her pimping Obamacare. Some are no longer fans of the show.

'I'm a really good nag.' A top of advisor to President Barack Obama is in Los Angeles to try to get Obamacare written into scripts of TV shows and movies. Valerie Jarrett explained in an appearance on Top That! on PopSugar.com: "That's the cool thing," a host said to the presidential advisor. "You've been reaching out to people that are, you know, outside of the norm of what the president might work with. Who else are you working with? Like celebrities, personalities, things like that?" "You name it," said Jarrett. "That's part of why I'm in L.A. I'm meeting with...

There was a giant serving of frosting when dueling domestic divas Martha Stewart and Rachael Ray bumped into each other at hot New York City restaurant Il Buco Alimentaria & Vineria. The atmosphere froze over when the rival cuisine queens found themselves at nearby tables at the new eatery Thursday night. Witnesses said Stewart, whose daytime television show was recently canceled, was "noticeably glaring in Ray's direction throughout her meal." Meanwhile, Ray, who was seated with Time magazine food writer Josh Ozersky, became visibly uncomfortable -- so much so that after having her appetizer, she left with her main course...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Rachael Ray has undergone surgery to correct a problem with her vocal cords, according to People. A rep for the talk show host and all-around foodie said she had surgery last week. “After several months of vocal therapy and on the advice of her doctors, Rachael decided to have a benign cyst removed from her vocal cord,” rep Charlie Dougiello told People, which first reported the news. Dougiello said Rachael is taking it easy following the surgery. “According to Rachael’s doctors the minor, non-invasive procedure was a success and she is already resting at home,” he...

Say what you will about Rachael Ray, but the jaunty chef-next-door knows how to build a brand. She began winning audiences with catch phrases like "EVOO" (for extra-virgin olive oil) on her first Food Network show, 30 Minute Meals, in 2001. Today, she has four Food Network programs, including Tasty Travels and $40 a Day. Her nationally syndicated, Oprah-backed talk show, Rachael Ray, is averaging 2.6 million viewers this season, and her Every Day With Rachael Ray magazine has 1.5 million readers. She endorses Dunkin' Donuts too--all to the tune of $18 million a year. More established chefs also know...

Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists. In the ad, Ray is wearing a scarf that Michelle Malkin said in her nationally syndicated column resembled a kiffiyeh, Middle Eastern garb that is "popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos." -snip-

I didn’t believe this story when people first started emailing about it; but sure enough, its true. Dunkin Donuts, the venerable old fried dough seller, is the latest American firm to casually promote the symbol of Palestinian terrorism and the intifada, the kaffiyeh: Dunkin’ Breakfast Choices.

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) — Rachael Ray made sure the students who lost eight classmates and their school in a tornado got a senior prom. The celebrity chef planned the menu and helped prepare dinner at Enterprise High School's prom, according to a statement Thursday from publicist Georgianna Dente. The star of the syndicated "Rachael Ray" show coordinated donations for the dance, which was shot for an episode to air April 30. "The students of Enterprise High are so courageous, given all that they've gone through," Ray, 38, said in the statement. "When I heard about what happened to their school...

Food Network sweetheart, Rachael Ray, has been married in a ceremony sure to have lasted longer then 30 minutes. The host of three Food Network shows - "30 Minute Meals," "$40 a Day" and "Tasty Travels!" - Ray tied the knot last Saturday with longtime sweetheart, John Cusimano, in a ceremony held in Montalcino, Italy. Ray's lastest business venture partners her with Oprah Winfrey's production company, which has agreed to produce a pilot for a new syndicated cooking show. Ray is also the author of 10 books and is launching a new magazine, "Every Day with Rachael Ray," next month.