Celebrity Cooking Showdown Cast Revealed!
I give props to The Surreal Life and Dancing with the Stars for culling bizarre, hodgepodge collections of celebrities for their respective casts, but nothing compares to the potpourri of star power on NBC's upcoming Celebrity Cooking Showdown. Variety reports today that the inaugural season of CCS will feature the following aspiring culinary wizards:
- Rapper Ja Rule (way to earn back that street cred!)
- Country star Big Kenny (of Big and Rich)
- Football pro-bowler Tony Gonzalez
- Volleyballer Gabrielle Reece
- General gadabout Tom Arnold
- Soap star Alison Sweeney
- Miss USA 2005 Chelsea Cooler
- Former boybander and present GENIUS Ashlely Parker Angel
- and über supermodel / raging bitch, Naomi Campbell.
But the best part of all this are the hosts: schlocky sitcom veteran Alan Thicke and vampy Food Network lush Sandra Lee. This could possibly be the best celebrity reality show yet.
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way to earn back that street cred!
He would sort of need a little street cred to lose first.
Posted by: J Unit![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.tvgasm.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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March 23, 2006 12:13 PM (#1 of 25)
Hmm , Am I the only one who watches Top Chef on Bravo? I love the show, and would love recaps on it .
I know, I know. Stop whining!
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March 23, 2006 12:16 PM (#2 of 25)
What!?? Ashley Parker Angel??? Ja fucking Rule?! And they managed to get Naomi Campbell in the kitchen?? She'll probably start throwing knives and blenders around.
...I'm so watching that show!
Posted by: stacyrocks![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.tvgasm.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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March 23, 2006 12:22 PM (#3 of 25)
Top Chef is enjoyable but it is limited by the fact that we can't taste the food.
This celebrity cooking show looks very, very bizarre.
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March 23, 2006 12:28 PM (#4 of 25)
Oh and B-Side, love the photoshop work you've done! Ja Rule with the hat: so 'street', so 'East Coast'.
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March 23, 2006 12:29 PM (#5 of 25)
I have to admit, I've never seen Top Chef, but I'm watching it right now...
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March 23, 2006 12:38 PM (#6 of 25)
Holy crap, I'm THERE.
Please tell me you guys will be recapping this show! It's just begging for it.
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March 23, 2006 01:30 PM (#7 of 25)
Well B-side, glad to hear.
However you missed last weeks episode where they cooked for a room full of women dressed in leather at a fetish shop.
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March 23, 2006 01:50 PM (#8 of 25)
Actually, that was the episode I just watched. But now I'm onto last night's show.
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March 23, 2006 02:08 PM (#9 of 25)
i saw todd newton say that the show was about celebrity chefs cooking with normal people like you and me
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March 23, 2006 02:15 PM (#10 of 25)
wasn't that douchebag Ashlely Parker Angel's whole new rap suppsoed to be about him being a "real" musician and getting away from the fake O town crap?
Or is that just what he pitched the executives so he could get on another shitty reality show.
Family services should take his baby away.
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March 23, 2006 02:24 PM (#11 of 25)
meeshie -- no, Todd Newton was wrong. you'd think he'd check his facts before he went babbling on the airwaves. but then again. it IS todd newton.
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March 23, 2006 02:29 PM (#12 of 25)
This sounds fun :)
At least these celebrities are a bit more lively and colorful than the contestants on the new season of the Next Food Network Star (or whatever it is called)-- what boring people. The only contestant on that series with any "personality" is the bleach-blond guy -- and the only personality he has is being loud. Where did they find THOSE people? At least these people will be entertaining to watch and burn.
I am confused by the selection of hosts; but perhaps Alan Thicke can make a mean omelette that we are all unaware of.
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March 23, 2006 02:39 PM (#13 of 25)
What the hell can Ashley Park Asshole cook? He ordered pizza through that entire abortion of a reality show.
I wouldn't want to be near Naomi Campbell, especially when she is near large knives. That woman is crazy.
KH
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March 23, 2006 03:54 PM (#14 of 25)
but then is there going to be anOTHer show about celebrity chefs cooking with normal people like you and me?
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March 23, 2006 04:15 PM (#15 of 25)
Hold on...I think my head just exploded...
Even if it was just Naomi Campbell, I would have been in!
But a Thicke-Angel-Arnold-Ja Rule combo?
They're really just spoiling me now...
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March 23, 2006 05:23 PM (#16 of 25)
Add my name to the list of people who want a recap of Top Chef.
I predict they will end up cooking that 'Champagne Cork up his butt' Stephen, in some large HeadHunter cauldron.
Yikes!
hb
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March 23, 2006 05:58 PM (#17 of 25)
(#17) Perhaps if we ask nicely and enough of us show interest, B-side will consider it!
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March 23, 2006 06:18 PM (#18 of 25)
I love Top Chef as well. Seems like every show like that needs at least 2 assholes, and they sure have theirs.
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March 23, 2006 08:12 PM (#19 of 25)
I'd just like to point out that Alison Sweeney rocks, but it would be great to see her channeling a little Sami Brady here. Sabotage the others, Sami! Then Austin will love you and Lucas will forgive you!
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March 23, 2006 11:02 PM (#20 of 25)
OMG Tabby Lavalamp (#20), I just about lost it when I read your comment. Classic.
Please recap this show for us B Side!!!
I love this website:)
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March 24, 2006 06:07 AM (#21 of 25)
SO will Naomi Campbell's entire cooking experience be making boiled water with a dash of salt? Its probably all she eats, besides the souls of other models.
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March 24, 2006 06:54 AM (#22 of 25)
Wow! I guess it really IS hard out there for a pimp if Ja Rule needs to be on this show.
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March 24, 2006 09:05 PM (#23 of 25)
Another reason for Ashley Parker Angel to dump his kid on his mother in law while he "works."
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March 25, 2006 09:04 AM (#24 of 25)
Oh Ja, whyyyyy? I think it's official: his career is over. How can you ever bounce back from a cooking show?
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March 25, 2006 12:01 PM (#25 of 25)