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Top Chef: Mutherf**king Snakes on Some Mutherf**king Plates

Snakes on a mutherf**king plate. Tonight on Top Chef.​Can we love Padma Lakshmi more than we do today? It seems mutherf**king unlikely. We just got wind of the totally awesome preview for tonight's episode of Top Chef. With the cheftestants finally chosen after two throwaway episodes, the fun beg ... More >>

Top Chef Texas: Padma, Pee-wee, and the Alamo (Video)

​Top Chef season nine is coming to Bravo, and this time, we're in for beef, beef, beef as the cheftestants battle their way through the Lone Star State. Top Chef Texas promises to be more than "big hat, no cattle," from the look of the promo, in which we're promised 29 (!!!) cheftestants, Padma i ... More >>

Vanilla Ice at Seminole Casino Hollywood, September 3

​Top Chef season nine is coming to Bravo, and this time, we're in for beef, beef, beef as the cheftestants battle their way through the Lone Star State. Top Chef Texas promises to be more than "big hat, no cattle," from the look of the promo, in which we're promised 29 (!!!) cheftestants, Padma i ... More >>

Bravo's New Cooking Show Around The World in 80 Plates

NBC Universal Padma Lakshmi's not set to host Bravo's new show - we just like to look at her in lingere​For those of you not satisfied with Bravo's selection of food shows, of which Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, Top Chef Just Desserts and Rocco's Dinner Party comes to mind, the people at the ... More >>

VH1's New Reality Show Famous Food Enlists Pseudo-Celebs to Revamp an LA Restaurant

tumblr.comHeidi Montag to star in VH1's new reality show where celebs revamp a restaurant​If you heard VH1 was filming a new reality television show called Famous Food, would you immediately envision a 30-minute reel where bleach-bottle blondes and moronic musicians try their hand at cooking? ... More >>

Dalia Dippolito's Lover Backed Her Reality-TV Defense

PBSODalia Dippolito is now facing 20 years in the slam.​Many observers have wondered why Dalia Dippolito chose a reality television defense to explain why she plotted to have her husband killed. Her attorney argued that Dalia's attempt to hire a hit man was part of an elaborate ruse designed to ma ... More >>

Dalia Dippolito Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

Dalia Dippolito​Dalia Dippolito -- caught on camera two years ago promising to pay a hit man to kill her husband -- was sentenced to 20 years in prison today by Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath.UPDATE: Click here for details on Dippolito's sentencing.There wasn't much ambiguity in Dippolito's murde ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Better Than A Mess Hall

NBC Universal ​Last week my favorite cheftestant, Hugh, was sent packing for his mayo as science project (which is ironic because I always thought of mayo as more "weird science" than condiment). That leaves Mary Sue, Floyd, Traci and Naomi to duke it out for spots in next week's finale. Q ... More >>

Top Chef Tour Coming to Fort Lauderdale, Miami

The Top Chef Tour is coming to South Florida​Top Chef, the reality cooking competition that turned the likes of Fabio Viviani, Carla Hall, Spike Mendelsohn and Brian Voltaggio into celebrities, is a weekly guilty pleasure for most of us. Sure, we can eat in the cheftestants' restaurants (a ... More >>

Dalia Dippolito Guilty Verdict Comes After a Reality-TV Defense Not Based on Actual Reality

When Dalia Dippolito's trial began on charges that she tried to have her husband killed, her defense attorney dropped a bombshell. Attorney Michael Salnick claimed in opening statements that Dalia's husband, Michael, had planned the whole thing in an attempt to get on reality TV. It was a crazy defe ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Heaven & Rock & Roll RV Hell

​The cheftestants walk into the kitchen to see Curtis and gourmet ingredients. Curtis says these ingredients are heavenly..... Quickfire Challenge The table is full of heavenly ingredients like foie gras, scallops, prime beef and nary a bug or canned good is in sight. The catch? Remember th ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: The Biggest Loser Challenge

​The cheftestants walk in and find a bunch of cheeses with hottie Curtis Stone. Quickfire Challenge Make a masterful cheese dish. The guest diner is a cheese connoisseur to be named. Hmmm..wonder if it's Mickey Mouse (I mean Elmo was a judge on a recent Top Chef All-Stars Quickfire). ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Gettin' Squirmy With It

NBC/Universal​Bravo's Top Chef has (mostly) been a beacon of light in the dimly lit world of reality television. On Top Chef people are smart and driven and even though there are sharp knives and open flames, no one has been stabbed or set on fire purposely. Though some past chall ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Season Three Recap: Meet The Masters

NBC Universal​It's time to meet our cheftestants, host and judges for season Three of Top Chef Masters. The host is Cutie Mc Cute, Curtis Stone. The judges are James Oseland and Ruth Reichl (ouch for the cheftestants is all I can say). Speaking of cheftestants, they are: John Rivera Sedlar ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: Padma Wears a Bikini and The Cheftestants Are Mean To Conch

NBC Universal ...And then there were three.​Last episode Carla was thrown off. First Fabio then Carla? Who could I possibly root for? Richard? Antonia? I'm a little depressed. Quickfire Challenge Back in the sunny Bahamas, we have Mike, Richard, Antonia and Tiffany left - boy vs. girl. P ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: Cooking For The King

NBC Universal ​Wer'e in the finals in the Bahamas. The cheftestants walk into a fort where they meet the winners of their seasons and Eric Ripert. Quickfire Challenge Tom Colicchio says they're going to go head to head against the winner of their particular season. The winner ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: All In The Family

NBC Universal​Last week on Top Chef Dale gets kicked off for a lousy Amberjack and the cheftestants were shocked, especially Richard. It's up to the final five. One step away from the final four. Pressure is on. Padma comes into the cheftestants' condo unannounced. Richard says this i ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: Paula Deen's Down Home Fry Fest

NBC Universal​In the last Top Chef, Angelo packed his knives because of a salty dish. Mike is totally freaking out about Angelo leaving. Even Tiffany thought it would be her turn to leave. Quickfire Challenge Paula Deen is there. Paula-freaking-Deen! Antonia says the challenge is going t ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: Fabio Makes a Booger for Jimmy Fallon

NBC Universal Another one bites the dust​Last Top Chef, Tre was sent home packing for his crummy risotto dish. Read the recap here. Quickfire Challenge The cheftestants walk into the kitchen and see fondue pots. Richard notes that his parents probably went to nude fondue parties (eww ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: Restaurant Wars (Fabio Charms Everyone)

NBC Universal Fabio Viviani ​Recap: on Last Week's Top Chef, the chefs were taken out on the S.S. Minnow for a three hour tour and fish fry.  Carla won a trip to Amsterdam and both Jamie (finally) and Tiffany were sent packing. Quickfire Challenge: The cheftestants walk into Le B ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: A Tom Colicchio Smackdown (He Is So Hot)

NBC Universal Tom Colicchio​Top Chef is probably Bravo's last and only foray into "real" reality television. For eight seasons we've gotten to enjoy the drama of cooking rather than drunken behavior, screaming matches and random hookups (though the show has had its fair share of all t ... More >>

You Can Watch Dance If You Want

NBC Universal Tom Colicchio​Top Chef is probably Bravo's last and only foray into "real" reality television. For eight seasons we've gotten to enjoy the drama of cooking rather than drunken behavior, screaming matches and random hookups (though the show has had its fair share of all t ... More >>

Beauty Pageant Contestant to Appear on The Amazing Race

Smith, from her days as Miss South Carolina USA​Stephanie Smith of Fort Lauderdale is a former Miss South Carolina USA and a contestant on this season's edition of the CBS reality show, The Amazing Race. That puts her perilously close to two of the world's most notorious Youtube video memes.But le ... More >>

Elton John Will Only Accept Money From One American Idol, Named Rush Limbaugh

Clearly, Elton John's not as desperate for attention as American Idol contestants.​In the same summer that Elton John accepted an invitation -- and $1 million -- to perform at the Palm Beach wedding of Rush Limbaugh, he is refusing to entertain far more generous offers to judge the performances of ... More >>

Ke$ha's Music Brings Her to American Airlines Arena With Rihanna

Clearly, Elton John's not as desperate for attention as American Idol contestants.​In the same summer that Elton John accepted an invitation -- and $1 million -- to perform at the Palm Beach wedding of Rush Limbaugh, he is refusing to entertain far more generous offers to judge the performances of ... More >>

Every Avenue Cruises Into Culture Room

Clearly, Elton John's not as desperate for attention as American Idol contestants.​In the same summer that Elton John accepted an invitation -- and $1 million -- to perform at the Palm Beach wedding of Rush Limbaugh, he is refusing to entertain far more generous offers to judge the performances of ... More >>

Big Brother Reality Show a Breeding Ground for Drug Conspiracy

Jasinski​Truth is stranger than fiction and reality shows are always more interesting when the cameras go dark. That's definitely the case with Big Brother, the execrable CBS show that forces an obnoxious group of people to be imprisoned within a camera-filled home. The winner of Big Brother 9 was ... More >>

Top Chef Cooks for Haiti

​The 24-hour news cycle has long since moved on from the January earthquake that devastated Haiti and the agony of its aftermath, but for Haitian native and former Top Chef contestant Ron Duprat, forgetting is not that easy.  So he's teamed up with four South Florida Whole Foods Markets to ra ... More >>

Dancing With the Not-Exactly Stars

​The 24-hour news cycle has long since moved on from the January earthquake that devastated Haiti and the agony of its aftermath, but for Haitian native and former Top Chef contestant Ron Duprat, forgetting is not that easy.  So he's teamed up with four South Florida Whole Foods Markets to ra ... More >>

Journey

​The 24-hour news cycle has long since moved on from the January earthquake that devastated Haiti and the agony of its aftermath, but for Haitian native and former Top Chef contestant Ron Duprat, forgetting is not that easy.  So he's teamed up with four South Florida Whole Foods Markets to ra ... More >>

The Story Every Young, Female, Aspiring Reality TV Star in South Florida Should Read

Flickr: James Whorriskey (Delbert Jackson)A couple buxom Brits who volunteered for a reality show that's approximately as sexually exploitive as the fake reality show.​In a region of the country that's home to Bang Brothers and other amateur pornographers, the only shocking part of this story is t ... More >>

Your Main Squeezes: Shwayze and Cisco

Flickr: James Whorriskey (Delbert Jackson)A couple buxom Brits who volunteered for a reality show that's approximately as sexually exploitive as the fake reality show.​In a region of the country that's home to Bang Brothers and other amateur pornographers, the only shocking part of this story is t ... More >>

Housewife-for-TV Sizes Up Real Housewives of Boca Raton

bethennybakes.com Bethenny Frankel is the token single working gal on the Bravo reality TV show The Real Housewives of New York City. She's also a Pinecrest Prep alum and onetime resident of Boca Raton. Today, Frankel will rub elbows with some of the real housewives of Boca Raton. Frankel, a na ... More >>

Dancing With the Idols? American Stars?

bethennybakes.com Bethenny Frankel is the token single working gal on the Bravo reality TV show The Real Housewives of New York City. She's also a Pinecrest Prep alum and onetime resident of Boca Raton. Today, Frankel will rub elbows with some of the real housewives of Boca Raton. Frankel, a na ... More >>

Chowhounds, Get Ready for Top Chef Finale

bethennybakes.com Bethenny Frankel is the token single working gal on the Bravo reality TV show The Real Housewives of New York City. She's also a Pinecrest Prep alum and onetime resident of Boca Raton. Today, Frankel will rub elbows with some of the real housewives of Boca Raton. Frankel, a na ... More >>

Uncle Luke on Reality Televison

bethennybakes.com Bethenny Frankel is the token single working gal on the Bravo reality TV show The Real Housewives of New York City. She's also a Pinecrest Prep alum and onetime resident of Boca Raton. Today, Frankel will rub elbows with some of the real housewives of Boca Raton. Frankel, a na ... More >>

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Hate, American Style

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Ron Gunzburger

is a long-time political consultant in South Florida. He recently became legal counsel and director of public affairs for the Broward County Appraiser's Office.

Daniel Rose

is owner of Daniel Rose Shoes, purveyor of Fort Lauderdale's showiest platforms and spikes

Cynthia Miller

is director of the innovative Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols