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Rachael Ray becomes daytime hostess |
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Written by asap
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Monday, 17 July 2006 |
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 PASADENA, Calif. — Food Network guru Rachael Ray is taking on daytime television.
Ray says her talk show will debut Sept. 18 -- and it won’t include your usual celebrity banter. The high-energy cook and best-selling cookbook author wants her high-profile guests do things like cook with her or play football. She calls it “can-do” advice about cooking, travel, relationships and pop culture trends.
“I want to laugh and eat something in every show,” Ray said Sunday at the Television Critics Association’s summer meeting. “It’s very important to me that everything is accessible. People love that sort of friendly advice and that sense of community when you get advice from a peer instead of an expert.”
OPRAH’S BLESSING
Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions is a producing partner. Ray says Winfrey has been “a huge and continuing influence” on her.
“She tells me to be myself,” Ray said. “She doesn’t chime in or call up and say, ‘This is how you can be more like Oprah.’ She’s pretty busy with her own job.”
Ray’s show has been picked up by stations nationwide, said Terry Wood, president of creative affairs for King World and CBS Paramount Domestic Television.
It will air at 10 a.m. in New York, 9 a.m. in Los Angeles and at 3 p.m. in other markets, Wood said.
FAMILY SHOW
Ray said she planned to have her husband cook and play music for her on the show.
“We’re talkers in my family. We’re very loud, talkative, volatile people,” she said. “I got a big mouth. My husband is a lot like me. He doesn’t bruise easily.”
WEIGHT
Many of her viewers wonder -- with all her on-screen munching, how does Ray manage her weight?
“I don’t,” she said, laughing. “I buy jeans with stretch. Everything I have has stretch in it. I haven’t known my weight since I was 12-years-old. I have enough pressure. I don’t care about any fashion enough to give up food.” | Only registered users can write comments.
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