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Reader234
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08-13-2000
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 9:44 am
"FoodNetwork.com experienced technical difficulties last night. As our viewers have seen on The Next Food Network Star this season, many twists and turns have taken place during the show. We encourage all to tune in on Sunday at 10pm to see who will be the Next Food Network Star." and For anyone who wants to see the evidence, it was preserved in a YouTube video (search for "Next Food Network Star Scandal"). (Spoiler alert. Just sayin'.)
Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | thought I'd add its about Aaron that won |
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Bombaycat
Member
07-21-2007
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 9:50 am
Thanks for the spoiler!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 10:22 am
Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | Whoo hoo!! Of the three, his show is the only one I'd watch! Interesting... The article in Pegasus News is obviously a local article in Lisa's 'hood. I honestly think Aaron's show would outsell Lisa's show by a mile. I think Aaron is much more likeable, and of the three he totally rocked the 30 sec promo. And, as the judges said, seven weeks of great performances and one bad night... | And when all is said and done, I wasn't impressed with the buffets of any of the three. The key word that they all seemed to miss was "lavish." I'd have thrown in a giant pot of lobster tails, crab legs, shrimp, oysters... all of the really expensive and delicious seafoods. Maybe in a paella. But definitely would've hooked the $$. Also, Adam was the only one who did a vegetarian entree and deserves kudos for that (although the rest of his meal was very meat heavy). Aaron's menu didn't blow me away but the judges did like his crab cakes (which seemed more to his style). I know they only had $1000 to feed 50 but I didn't see a whole lotta "lavish" anything...
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 10:22 am
well, oops on Food TV! LOL
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 11:15 am
So we DID vote last season!!! No wonder I'm so freaking confused. (((sigh)))
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Bombaycat
Member
07-21-2007
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 11:19 am
Yes I believe so. If I remember correctly we voted between Amy and Rory.
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Woofy
Member
08-09-2001
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 1:42 pm
I agree Keldogg .. Kristi was terrific. Far better than the two men. Its a fair competition and I hope that Kristi does win.
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Woofy
Member
08-09-2001
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 1:44 pm
I agree Keldogg .. Kristi was terrific. Far better than the two men. Its a fair competition and I hope that Kristi does win.
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Woofy
Member
08-09-2001
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 1:46 pm
I have no idea why the two posts above were posted .. They appear to be left over from DANCING WITH THE STARS .. sheesh! Anyway, I remember voting in all the previous seasons of NEXT FOOD NETWORK STAR.
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 8:29 pm
I thought I remembered the public voting last year. Maybe last year's winner didn't turn out so well, so they decided not to leave it up to the public anymore. I understand the judges' decision, but I liked the concept of Adam's show more.
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Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 8:45 pm
Sara Moulton did the whole talking to a viewer thing years ago. She did it by telephone instead of webcam, but Adam's concept wasn't that unique. I haven't liked Adam all season long, but I did like how he was on camera during his pilot tonight. Not a fan of Aaron at all. Boo hiss.
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Ladytex
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09-27-2001
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 10:28 pm
When I saw the commercial for Ask Aida, I knew Adam didn't win. I really thought Lisa would, actually, but I'm very satisfied with the winner. I like Aaron and can see myself actually using some of his recipes.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 10:50 pm
I would have been happy with Lisa or Aaron, based on their performances tonight. Very happy for Aaron, but hopefully he will have a producer and staff who are good at hand-holding, until he hits his stride, which I'm sure will happen with some experience on camera. I wanted to try his dish, and Lisa's. The chicken, not so much.. It was annoying too.
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Vsmart
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02-10-2003
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 11:17 pm
Felt like the network wanted Aaron so much that when he flubbed last week, they changed the rules to 3 finalists in order to keep him in the running.
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Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 3:33 am
I agree, Vsmart. I knew he would win it after that. He tanked on both the hosting and cooking, but they still kept him. There was no way they could send one of the others home over him, yet they clearly wanted him to win.
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Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 4:17 am
I agree with both of the last two postrs that the network wanted Aaron to win and rigged the format that way. However, since I LIKE Aaron I was glad he won -
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 5:01 am
why would the network want him to win so badly that they rigged it? i thought of the 3, Adam's program was the most different from what's on air now, but I liked all three shows.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 6:55 am
I love Aaron, but I find him a little hard to understand when he talks. Like he talks too fast or something. I thought Adam did a great show. Really thought he should have won if the winner would be based on their little show alone...
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 7:08 am
I disagree... I think Aaron took the hosting challenge last week. But yeah, he didn't do at well on the buffet. I think FN wanted Aaron to win because they think he'll do the best. I couldn't watch Lisa's show. I could barely watch her four minute promo. And Adam's concept was hardly unique (Sara Moulton's phone-in viewers, and all the various other "rescue" shows they've had on in the past and currently). (The current "Rescue Chef" goes out to people's homes, but it's the same thing that has been done time and again on FN.) I'm very happy that Aaron won. He would be the only one of the three whose show I'd watch consistently. (And watching last night's ep, I realized the word that I was missing when describing Lisa... in my opinion, she acts "pretentious." Like her fine arts training and culinary skills make her better than anyone else.) GO AARON! (And holy smokes... a week to get a show in production? I wonder if the production values will be any better than Amy's show last season? I hope so, cause while she didn't help her show, her production didn't either!)
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Texannie
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07-16-2001
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 7:26 am
But they currently don't have anything like Aarons' viewer connection on the air. They have several 'soul, cooking from the heart, keeping it real' shows on. shoot, the production values of their audition tapes were better than Amy's show! LOL
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 8:01 am
like I said last night, I saw the commercials for 'Ask Aida' and knew Adam wouldn't win. It's such a similar concept, even using the internet to help viewers.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 8:34 am
Ask Aida? I haven't seeen those. yep, that would make a difference.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 9:09 am
I haven't seen it either, but I saw a commercial for it during the NFNS broadcast last night and said uh oh. http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ai
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 9:10 am
I'm irritated that we spent so many weeks watching the show and it was obvious that they had already picked the winner. They have really screwed up this so-called competition the last two seasons. Nothing against Aaron but it leaves a sour taste when the outcome has already been determined. Yes, I do think they rigged it. Aaron should have gone last week. But they kept him in spite of himself so they could crown him the winner. If I was Lisa or Adam I would be pretty darned irritated.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 28, 2008 - 9:36 am
But Aaron nailed the challenge with Rachel Ray and did really well on that outdoor Vegas challenge when they cooked each other's specialty. So, he did deservce to be there. Yep, he bombed that last one, but they did say in deliberation, 'do you discount all the good because of one bad?'
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