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Celebrity Cooking Showdown

By B-Side | Monday, March 13, 2006 | 11:44 am | 10 Comments

Diddy3-13-06Let’s say you’re NBC, and you want to make your own version of Iron Chef. But let’s say you also want to make your own version of Dancing with the Stars too. And just for kicks, you think to yourself, “Is there a way we can add Diddy to this?” Well, Presto Change-o! We’ve got a new NBC event! Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you CELEBRITY COOKING SHOWDOWN!

Airing this April for a whole week, Deal or No Deal style, Celebrity Cooking Showdown (or as I like to call it, CCS) will pair celebrities with chefs in a fierce battle of wits, bravery, and paprika. For the first three episodes, the stars will train with their culinary sensei, and then for the last two episodes, the teams will square off in a timed battle, Iron Chef style (which means the professionals will do all the heavy lifting while the celebs will keep busy by stirring pots and opening ovens). Oh, and to top everything off, Diddy will preside over the activities. He’ll be serving as exec-producer, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him take a Chairman-like role — perhaps biting into a squash instead of a pepper.

Also joining Diddy in this venture is producer Ben Silverman who told Variety, “We’ve been desperate to do cooking in primetime, and who’s more primetime than Diddy?” Honestly, that doesn’t even make sense.

Diddy, meanwhile, had this to say about his show: “The sexiest trend going on right now is young men learning how to cook. There’s nothing more sensual than a man cooking for his woman.” Of course, this has nothing to do with a celebrity cooking showdown, but we appreciate the observation. Maybe Diddy would feel more at home directing a commercial for Barilla Pasta? For more information, Variety has the full article, replete with obligatory typos (such as referring to Diddy as “Combs Diddy”).

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10 Comments

  1. 1
    AbbyAnn
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 12:03 pm

    I sincerely hope that Diddy will pace about on a dias as the competitors cook, smiling enigmatically. But good luck convincing us that the original Japanese Chairman was your uncle, Diddy.

  2. 2
    BigTeebo
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 12:21 pm

    And according to reality blurred, Hells Kitchen 2 starts airing June 12.

    GETBACKONYOURSTATION!

  3. 3
    stacyrocks
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 12:53 pm

    WTF!? Who thought of this?? How is Diddy & cooking related in any way, besides the fact that he eats food once in a while?

    -Big Teebo;
    I’m excited for Hell’s Kitchen 2 also! :) BLOODY RISOTTO!! I love me some Gordon Ramsey.

  4. 4
    AbbyAnn
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 1:22 pm

    I would LOVE it if Dewberry came back for another try, a la Daniel Franco on Project Runway.

  5. 5
    Keyser Soze
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 5:13 pm

    Yay Hells Kitchen 2!
    SHUT IT DOWN!

    Diddy should do a cooking show with Paula Deen. That would be a homerun.

  6. 6
    Trent880
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 5:16 pm

    Am I the only one that thinks P. Diddy is Satan?

    Hey Diddy…where’s that all-girl band that’s gon’ blow this piece up??!! Yeah, didn’t think so.

  7. 7
    TinkerbellAPixie
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 5:26 pm

    Trent – you made my water come out my nose. You should have a warning when you’re gonna be that funny.

    hehe..where’s that all girl band… lol

  8. 8
    Trent880
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 5:37 pm

    Now that I think of it I think Diddy could be a hipper, more “street” version of Sandra Lee. I can just see it “Y’all I just bought some Knorr soup mix at the sto’ and I’m gonna REMIX it with some water. It’s gon’ be HOT. Badboy 2006! Epicuri-what!”

  9. 9
    stacyrocks
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 6:58 pm

    ^ LOL, Trent!!! “YEAH, BADBOY SOUP, BABY”

  10. 10
    zoobabe
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 5:04 am

    Any celebrity with a working knowledge of a home meth lab might be a shoo-in for this show. Get cooking!

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