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Rachael Ray is not your average chef.
In fact, she’s not a chef at all.
Ray’s success is entirely self-made, so to speak.
For instance, there used to be websites and chat boards dedicated to slamming the Food online grid star.
One of them was called “Rachael Ray Sucks.”
Ray’s response to all of this?
Smile and wave, baby.
“I lose my voice a lot,” she toldPeoplein 2006.
“Rachael is the picture of health.
Dougiello assured the outlet that the procedure was simple and that Ray would have a short recovery time.
“If people want to slam me, just slam me.
I felt bad for Oprah because it attaches my name to [hers].
I wrote Oprah a note and said I would never presume to redress your paintings,” Ray said.
Anonymous sources claimed that Cusimano was hanging out at a swingers club shortly after he married Ray in 2005.
In 2007, the rumors ramped up, with tabloids pronouncing the couple’s marriage dead in the water.
Ray’s spokesperson clapped back with a statement to People, saying that the rumors had no merit.
“Rachael and John have never been happier,” they said (via theDaily Mail).
Ray also addressed the rumors surroundingher relationship with her husbandon one of her shows.
They worry about us,” she said.
While these rumors were upsetting, Ray put them to bed during an interview with People.
He pointed a gun at her, and Ray screamed at the top of her lungs.
So loudly, in fact, that she said she scared herself at that moment.
But then history repeated itself.
This time, the boy hit Ray with his pistol.
“Nothing so much happened.
People have a lot worse things in life.
But it was like, okay, I’m not going to wait for strike three.
Others in the food industry, however, did not agree with her decision to partner with the company.
Renowned chef Anthony Bourdain said that he thought Ray’s endorsement of Dunkin' was despicable.
However, despite the nasty backlash, Ray honored her partnership with the company.
As for Bourdain, Ray opted to kill him with kindness.
“I absolutely love Tony Bourdain.
I have an enormous amount of respect for him.
It’s a free country.”
Camera footage acquired after the incident showed that Scuderi accidentally locked herself out of the house.
Scuderi’s cause of death was later said to have been a heart attack.
Her body wasn’t found until the following morning,” Mesnick said.
Ray was busy finishing up the latest season of her show at the time of her aunt’s death.
Her spokesperson toldThe New York Postthat Scuderi’s death came as a big shock to the family.
She made it clear that she blamed them for her death and accused them of being negligent.
“I want the world to know the truth about them and just how they treat their own family.
However, the keypad was no longer connected to the door.
Mesnick says that this was never communicated to her mom.
He added that Mesnick’s accusations had been hurtful to the Ray family.
He added that the rest of their family wasn’t upset with Ray for missing the funeral.
It was a terrible loss for Ray.
Speaking toExtra, she said she remained grateful that she could be a dog parent to Isaboo.
… She died in my arms,” Ray said.
“I felt guilty and grateful at the same time.
… People suffered actual human loss from COVID or because they couldn’t get care.”
Ray took toInstagramto share the sad news of Isaboo’s passing.
She added that Isaboo’s energy and fun-spirited personality will be dearly missed.
“She was a fighter,” Ray wrote.
She also used the post as an opportunity to encourage people to adopt animals in need.
Speaking to Extra, Ray explained how the fire started.
“The chimney burped under the roof,” she said.
In the years that I lived here, I learned an awful lot.
“I heard the fire in the walls.
It was blood-curdling and chilling from head to toe,” she recalled.
The damage was so severe that Ray’s house had to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Ray and her husband had just finished some renovations.
“Ida took it out.
And I mean, out.
Down hard,” Ray toldPeoplein the aftermath.
“Like, literally every speaker in the ceiling, the fireplace, every seam in the wall.
It was like the apartment just literally melted, like in ‘Wicked’ or something.”
When the remediation team finally showed up, however, they made everything worse.
Ray recalled how they made a hole in the wall and accidentally hit a main water pipe.
Ray could not believe her bad luck at this point.
“Tell me you would not feel like a kicked can,” she lamented.
Rachael managed to cope after a year of hardshipsby remaining optimistic.
“[We] have so much to be grateful for,” she told People.
“There are so much worse positions we could be in.”
Still, she’s been questioned about this decision on more than one occasion.
I feel like a borderline good mom to my dog.
So I can’t imagine if it was a human baby."
Many can probably relate to Ray’s point of view.
When asked about her decision byPeoplea few years prior, Ray gave it to them straight.
“I don’t have time.
I work too much to be an appropriate parent,” she said.
“I don’t feel like I am.
I really don’t.”
