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Archive through April 18, 2006

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Kc103
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07-13-2004

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
Courtesy of:
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-celebritycookingparticipants,0,1188321.story

March 23 2006 LOS ANGELES -- NBC has finalized the sorta-famous kitchen crew for its week-long "Celebrity Cooking Showdown," and the cast has a distinct "Dancing with the Stars" vibe.

The group includes an all-pro football player, a hip-hop star, a self-effacing veteran actor, a statuesque athlete/actress, a soap-opera star and a former boy-band singer, job descriptions straight from the "Dancing" playbook. In this case, those roles are filled by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez, Ja Rule, Tom Arnold, Gabrielle Reece, "Days of Our Lives'" Allison Sweeney and O-Town/"There and Back" star Ashley Parker Angel.

Rounding out the celebs are famously temperamental supermodel Naomi Campbell, reigning Miss USA Chelsea Cooley and country singer Big Kenny, half of Big and Rich. "Growing Pains" paterfamilias Alan Thicke and the Food Network's Sandra Lee will host the show; event planner Colin Cowie ("Everyday Elegance") and food critic Gael Greene will serve as judges.

"Our superstars [sic] represent a great cross section of our multicultural country and share every American's passion for food and cooking," says Ben Silverman, who's executive producing the show with Sean "Diddy" Combs. "That passion combined with a cooking competition will be great television."

"Celebrity Cooking" will air over five consecutive nights, beginning Monday, April 17. Three celebs will compete in a cook-off on each of the first three episodes, after getting a culinary crash course from one of a trio of famous chefs: Wolfgang Puck, Cat Cora and Govind Armstrong. The winner from each night will compete in the final kitchen battle on Thursday, with the winner revealed Friday. Viewers will be able to vote on the presentation of the finalists' feasts; those scores will be combined with Cowie and Greene's marks for taste.

Is anyone going to try this show? I wonder how well the cooking will translate with the viewing audience. I mean...we can't taste the finished product now can we? LOL Guess we have to rely on what the judges say!

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 7:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I watched. Thumbs down.

Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 7:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
It was on the same par as American Inventor.

Can we say c a n c e l' ed.

Maybe if we get better "b" listers the next installment will be better.

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 7:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puzzled a private message Print Post    
Just awful.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Tony was fun, Cindy was just nasty ... her hair was probably in everything and I'm surprised her boobies didn't fall out ... and how could they say her szchezuan didn't have enough spice to be szchezuan and then give her a 9 for flavor???

Woofy
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08-09-2001

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Woofy a private message Print Post    
What a piece of junk. NBC ought to cancel it before the week's off. Cancel it and apologize!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 10:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Really bad show. I'm surprised that Cindy didn't fall out of her dress. Just watching her run around in her high heels was driving me crazy.

Curlyq
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07-10-2002

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 11:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Curlyq a private message Print Post    
What drove me crazy was that she was working with raw chicken while also putting ice cream in a mold with her bare hands. Her presentation was good, though. And then she put her hands on her hair...

I was hoping they'd start off with Patti LaBelle since she's a lot of fun and I've seen her cook on other shows before.

I saw something similar the other day on the Food Network with Morgan Fairchild competing against Mario Cantone. Very similar format but without the Iron Chef atmosphere.

They said the viewers would decide the ultimate winner, but we can't taste the food so how does that make sense? For that matter, I found it annoying when the studio audience would boo the judge's comments even though they had no idea how bad the food might've tasted.

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 3:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
The raw chicken/ice cream thing got me too, Curlyq. I was just hoping she was washing her hands with the camera wasn't on her.

As for the judging...when the female judge tasted Alison's bleu cheese-stuffed tenderloin, she said something about not liking her beef stuffed with salty cheese. That just seemed kind of wrong to me...I mean, that could have been the best bleu-cheese stuffed tenderloin ever, but if you don't like that food to begin with, you aren't going to like it.

Anyway, I like cooking competitions, so I hoped I'd like this show. But, I didn't. Wasn't interested in the celebrities, the chefs, the judges or Alan Thicke. I think the only person I'd be interested in watching in this is Patti LaBelle, so I'm doubting I'll be tuning in for the rest of this week-long event. Last night I was already flipping channels about 15 minutes in.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 4:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Fruitbat a private message Print Post    
I watched 10 minutes then turned it off. Way too frantic and again we see them use the term celebrity very loosely!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 6:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Celebrity? I never heard of any of those people. It was likely the worst show I ever saw. I was working on the computer and left it on just cuz I couldn't find anything else. So I sat thru most of it. It was almost painful. The music was awful. The whole thing was boring. And how can the home audience vote when they can't even taste anything? Lame. Lame. Lame. I was not interested in anyone or anything about it.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 7:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I have it recorded. In an odd way, I want to watch it now, simply to see if it is truly as bad as most of you say it is. See what you have done!

Crzndeb
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07-26-2004

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Crzndeb a private message Print Post    
I taped 24 so I could watch this. Pretty bad, but I did enjoy staring at Tony for the hour. Youzaa!!

Luvmom
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10-17-2000

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
I have to at least watch it today because my daughter is so excited that Ashley Parker Angel(Formerly from O-Town)is going to be on.Any glimpse of him makes both my girls go nuts...LOL

Crzndeb
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07-26-2004

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Crzndeb a private message Print Post    
I think Ashley is a cutie too, Luvmom. And I have grown children. LOL!! And I admit, I watched his MTV show.

Luvmom
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10-17-2000

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 10:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
I always had a soft spot for him.He was so sweet.



Spear
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08-06-2001

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spear a private message Print Post    
Wasn't Alan Thicke supposed to have a co-host? The closed captioning had a bunch of extra lines that Thicke never said. It seemed like there were a lot of last-minute edits.

Cdbga
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10-04-2004

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cdbga a private message Print Post    
Yeah, Spear, every article I've found for this show says Sandra Lee was supposed to co-host with Alan Thicke. I haven't been able to find anything that says what happened to her, but she is not listed as a host on the NBC site. Strange.

It is on at 8pm tonight, celebs are Patti LaBelle, Ashley Parker Angel and Gabrielle Reece. I might check in during Gilmore Girls commercial breaks, because I do like Patti & Ashley.

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
Who won tonight?

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Luvmom, do your daughters belong to Ashley's Myspace page?

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 7:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
what a crock ... no way should a veggie pizza have won. And he was up on the counters in his shoes! Ack, where is the health dept when you need them. Last night with the hair and non hand washing and tonight with the dancing on the counters ...

Luvmom
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10-17-2000

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
No,not yet,my oldest just found out about it.My youngest is to small for stuff like that.

Luvmom
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10-17-2000

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
We were happy to see Ashley win.We'll get to see him on thursday.Darrellh,have you heard or seen Ashley's new video?I heard the song but haven't seen the video yet.I really like it.Ashley was fun to watch tonight.Even the judge mentioned what a cute smile he had.... As for standing on the counter,he was kinda doing a Bobby Flay(sp?) when he was on Iron Chef.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 7:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Ashley is on my friends list, along with Dan. You can watch the video and listen to music on the site.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 7:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
DARRELL HAS A MY SPACE??? oh gawd!