Reality Shows

Biggest Loser Paradox

Poison, Def Leppard, and Lita Ford at BankAtlantic Center on August 9

Jersey Shore's Snooki Launches Soda and iPhone App (Video)

What goes great with a meatball and a bun in the oven?  How about a nice cold wild cherry soda?Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, our favorite self-proclaimed Jersey Shore meatball, has come a long way from dancing on bars, getting arrested, showing her privates, and looking for gorilla-juicehead love. T ... More >>

The Narrow Worldview of "What to Expect When You're Expecting"

Dancing With the Drag Stars

Trashy and Fabulous

Food Network's Extreme Chef: Like Top Chef With Snakes (Video)

Food Network Extreme Chef: Like Top Chef, but with poisonous snakes!​Although we love Top Chef here at Clean Plate Charlie, sometimes we can't help wondering if maybe the show would be a little bit better if the cheftestants had to, say, catch their own poisonous water moccasin and cook it ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Gael Greene Slept With Elvis (And a Proposal)

Gael Green always with hat, even when hot.​The cheftestants walk into the kitchen and see headphones, a blindfold, and a nose plug. This could only mean one thing - a late night of partying with the cast of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. (wait - it's not?) OK, then the blindfold means t ... More >>

ABC to Replace Soaps with The Chew

Top Chef's Carla Hall to Co-Host "The Chew"​ABC has announced that two of its decades-running soaps, One Life to Live and All My Children will be canned. President of ABC Daytime, Brian Frons said, "We are taking this bold step to expand our business because viewers are looking for differen ... More >>

"Soul Surfer" a Teen Movie of the Week for the Beach

Top Chef Recap: And The Winner Is........

NBC Universal   ​This is it...the finale. Padma and Tom meet Richard and Mike. Tom says there are no twists and turns - just show us your future - your challege is to create the restaurant of your dreams (that's it? OK - I'll just write you the great American novel in an hour...cl ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: The Last Supper

NBC Universal ​Last week Tiffany was sent home. Mike said Tiffany was great but the three top competitors are left.  Padma and Wolfgang Puck are here for the quickfire. Quickfire There are seven classic quickfires to choose from past seasons. The cheftestants will pick what qui ... More >>

Interview With Chef and Top Chef Cheftestant Spike Mendelsohn - Part I

Laine Doss​Spike Mendelsohn, the tall-hat-wearing, red-bearded contestant on Top Chef Season Four and Top Chef All-Stars, happens to own two fast-casual restaurants in D.C., We the Pizza and Good Stuff Eatery. Both restaurants buck the "fast food as junk food" concept and offer healthy farm ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: Fuggedaboudit! Cooking Family Style At Rao's

NBC Universal Cheftestants​Last episode we had Marcel pack his knives after he led his team to defeat in restaurant wars.  Quickfire Round The Cheftestants walk into the kitchen to find Padma and Isaac Mizrahi. It's fashion week and Padma is plugging her jewelry line and Isaac is ha ... More >>

Q&A With Chef and Top Chef Cheftestant Fabio Viviani - Part I

NBC Universal Fabio Viviani ​If you watch Top Chef, you know Fabio Viviani. This cheftestant from season five might not have walked away with the title, but his clever quips delivered in broken English, his charm, and his skills made him a fan favorite and brought him back for the cur ... More >>

Hell's Kitchen Open Casting Call

​The Brits can be scary folks with their superior verbal skills and sophisticated disdain: Americans hear the accent and expect decorum, tact, painfully perfect manners. And then you get called an "ignorant fucking cunt" and are left wondering what the hell just happened - but the funny thing is, ... More >>

Make These Winning Top Chef Banana Fritters at Home

​Last night's episode of Top Chef that took place in Singapore was easily the best of the season. It featured a series of stunning looking dishes from all four remaining cheftestants that were cooked in a backdrop full of beauty and culture. Everything looked so tasty, it made me want to hop a fli ... More >>

"Vampires Suck" Review: A Movie for Those Who Plan to Text Through It

Chef Carlos Fernandez From Hi-Life Cafe: Interview, Part 1

Photo by Christina Staalstrom​Chef Carlos Fernandez, head chef of Hi-Life Cafe in Wilton Manors, clearly loves what he does. Although he fell into his role 15 years ago, he has since developed a passion for cooking that shines through when he talks about the restaurant, his staff, and most of all ... More >>

Top Chef Kenny Gilbert Goes Packing

​That's all folks. Top Chef and new Florida resident Kenny Gilbert was forced to "pack up his knives and go" on last night's episode of Top Chef D.C.Gilbert was sent home following the show's Restaurant Wars episode, which pits two teams of four cheftestants against each other. The chefs took over ... More >>

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

The Top Chef Interview With Kenny Gilbert, Bravo Star and New Executive Chef at PGA National Resort

Chef Kenny Gilbert, star of Bravo's Top Chef and new executive chef at PGA National Resort and Spa.​Watch any of this season's episodes of Top Chef and it's clear that the level of competition has been raised higher than ever. There have been furious quickfires with crab parts exploding across the ... More >>

The Burning Ballroom From Hell

From Big Brother to the Big House

I wonder if Big Brother winner and Delray Beach resident Adam Jasinski was dipping into his stash of pills prior to the interview above, 'cause he sure does look slightly skeeted to me. Oh, and Mr. Jasinski, you really aren't "smarter than you look" -- hence the $1 million in drug charges you now fa ... More >>

Latitudes Beach Café Makes Us Wonder About that Top Chef Thing

Ron Duprat's Top Chef Recap, Episode Four

​Welcome once again to the Ron Duprat Top Chef Las Vegas recap. If you'd like to catch up, read the first, second, and third recaps while we wait here. Back? Great! Here's what the fourth episode had in store for Hollywood's favorite cooking show reality show contestant.This week's episode was cle ... More >>

Food Season on the Boob Tube

Move over, Rachael; there are some new shows in town.​It seems as if food has become almost as popular a subject for television programming as reality shows -- when the two are combined, like on Top Chef, Kitchen Nightmare's, and Hell's Kitchen, the result is stratospheric. To be honest, I've neve ... More >>

Tablao You Away

Sing It, Edna

Road Rules Can Be Funny?

Paparazzi Unimpressed by Ambiguously Straight Gov

Don't you feel just a little sorry for the gawkers of St. Petersburg / Tampa? They've been waiting to get their place on the celebrity map forever! But no, Anna Nicole had to croak in the that other Seminole Hard Rock hotel. Today's Charlie Crist-Carole Rome wedding was supposed to be the cities' Bi ... More >>

The O'Jays

She’s a Fragile F’n Flower

Saving The World, One Perm at a Time

Paul Potts

Fuel

Livin’ the Hi-Life

Survival of the Funniest

Slang Phrase Architect Arrives

Not What They're Looking For - American Idol Tryouts

Idol Worship

Pembroke Pines native tours the U.S. with Taylor Hicks

Royal Flush

Marie Antoinette

Ballroom Battle

Various Artists

Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen (Hollywood)

Standup That Stands Out

Cory Kahaney leads the New School

Best Reason to Live in South Florida

Prepares you for reality TV

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

New Yakkers

Edward Burns's Sidewalks of New York does more talking than walking

Money For Something

"Empathic Economies"