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Now, When Are Those Nudie Pictures of Sandra Lee Surfacing?
"If you could combine James Bond with MacGyver, you would get Robert Irvine, a real life chef extraordinaire and the host of Dinner: Impossible."
- From the Food Network website


In case you were looking for Chef Robert Irvine's web site bio, what used to look like THIS...



Now looks like THIS:

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His bio's also been pulled from the Food Network site.

Why? Perhaps because the "Dinner Very Possible" host may have padded his resume just a tad.

From the Daily Mail:

Fraudulent' British celebrity chef faces sack from US TV show
after claiming he made Diana's wedding cake
By PAUL THOMPSON
19th February 2008

Among a few nuggets:

"His five star award from the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences was bought over the internet," and...

...wait for it...

...wait...

...here it comes...

"Following an investigation by a newspaper in St Petersburg, Florida Irvine, 42, also admitted he has not been knighted and did not own a castle in Scotland."

Nice prep work, Food network.


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[info]talinthas
2008-02-20 11:15 pm UTC (link)
to be fair, though, his show is a lot of fun to watch.

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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-20 11:23 pm UTC (link)
I've never beena huge fan, myself. I always found it too contrived, and the dishes he comes up with not terribly interesting.

Gimme Iron Chef America any day. :-)

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[info]talinthas
2008-02-20 11:40 pm UTC (link)
speaking of ICA, you're going to want to read this, as the food critic from The Village Voice talks about his experience at a taping.

Iron Chef original all the way for me =)
/proposed to fiancee at Iron Chef Kobe's restaurant

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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-20 11:56 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yeah. I pretty much guessed IC and ICA were the culinary equivalents of professional wrestling.

Still love 'em, though...

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[info]aisb23
2008-02-21 12:03 am UTC (link)
Actually my thought was "Is this the level of investigative reporting that the Village Voice has been reduced to?"

There's nothing in that article that fans of the show didn't already know or weren't able to deduce if they have two brain cells to smack together.

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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-21 01:34 am UTC (link)
Oh, yeah. Agree there, too...

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[info]tarpo
2008-02-21 04:31 am UTC (link)
I always felt it was more Dinner: Indifferent myself. I found him to be appealing in that Tyler Florence way.. meaning not at all.

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[info]aisb23
2008-02-20 11:18 pm UTC (link)
I'm thinking that between this and the JAG fiasco on Next Food Network Star that their job apps need a question in big bold red letters: ARE YOU A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR?

Of course that question may be sel-defeating :)

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[info]beezelbubbles
2008-02-21 04:20 am UTC (link)
JAG fiasco? What? I missed this food dramaz.

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[info]gmskarka
2008-02-20 11:19 pm UTC (link)
I still love that Bourdain called him "the overmuscled fuckwit from 'Dinner: Slightly Difficult.'"

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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-20 11:39 pm UTC (link)
God Bless Bourdain.

I mean, seriously.

(Sniff)

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[info]tarpo
2008-02-21 04:33 am UTC (link)
a friend of mine asked why I liked Anthony Bourdain so much when in her mind he was just a loud mouth asshole.. I just replied that he WAS a loud mouth asshole.. but he can back it up.

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[info]bajingo
2008-02-20 11:21 pm UTC (link)
Just goes to show that lies will always catch up with a person.

I wish I had cable though, I've heard he was at least entertaining to watch.

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[info]griffen
2008-02-20 11:49 pm UTC (link)
He was, but man... knowing he lied just takes the fun out of his entertainment, somehow.

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[info]thespian
2008-02-20 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Tony Bourdain has called it 'Dinner: Slightly Difficult.'

Did you see the Golden Clog Awards noms?

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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-20 11:54 pm UTC (link)
I did indeed!

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[info]thespian
2008-02-21 12:05 am UTC (link)
he is a shoo-in. And he needs to be, considering he lost a *knighthood* this week!

He can push it as 'Awarded the Cat Cora Golden Clog' by chef luminaries Anthony Bourdain, Michael Ruhlman and Michael Symon!' and hope no one ever looks it up.

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[info]dybbuk67
2008-02-21 05:57 am UTC (link)
Naw, at this point Bourdain will give it to himself just to spite Irvine.
Irvine will claim he won it anyway.

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[info]georgmi
2008-02-21 12:05 am UTC (link)
Now, now. Prep work is for the sous-chefs. Can't expect the big kahunas to handle all the fiddling details...

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[info]everflow
2008-02-21 12:59 am UTC (link)
it's more than that... he didn't make the cake didn't serve dinners for the president, and didn't get a degree, also is in debt up to his eye balls for a restaurant he was going to start... and a JACK ASS... and Paula Dean is a Union buster...

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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-21 01:39 am UTC (link)
Now, now...that should be:


"Paula Deen is a union buster y'all..."

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[info]zenfrodo
2008-02-21 02:25 am UTC (link)
Union buster?

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[info]everflow
2008-02-21 03:33 am UTC (link)
yes Ms Dean works for smithfield and they have went through out NC's plants and done everything from threats to firing to make sure the plants don't unionize and she has been sticking up for smithfield in just a way for them to look like just being "fair" to workers and not the facts.

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[info]blackjackrocket
2008-02-21 09:21 am UTC (link)
Well that sucks. She always seemed so nice, ya know?

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[info]ultramundanecom
2008-02-21 01:30 am UTC (link)
I'm picturing him walking into a press conference like Bugs Bunny in "Hare Brush" "I am Wobert Iwvine, Miwwionaire.. I own a mansion and a yacht..."

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[info]zenfrodo
2008-02-21 02:02 am UTC (link)
And to add lemon juice to the paper cuts, Emeril Lagasse's been bought out by Martha Stewart.

Truly, we have reached Food Hell.


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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-21 02:06 am UTC (link)
What I've heard from foodies is that Emeril essentially gave the finger to the Food Network with that move...

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[info]zenfrodo
2008-02-21 02:25 am UTC (link)
God, I hope that's what he was doing; it's the only thing that would make that palatable. I read the CNN article, and was screaming NOOOOOOOOoooooo for most of the day.


Say what you like about Emeril, but man, he's the one that got me & my husband interested in cooking.

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[info]invaderluca
2008-02-21 02:20 am UTC (link)
Details? I'd take Martha Stewart over Emeril, but just barely. I hate them both...but Emeril just pisses me off to no end with just his general attitude.

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[info]zenfrodo
2008-02-21 02:23 am UTC (link)
The CNN article:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/19/emeril.martha.ap/index.html


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[info]spotweld
2008-02-21 02:24 am UTC (link)
At least he wasn't try to cook with duck tape.

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The Food Network hasn't had the best background checks, huh?
[info]vysion_of_books
2008-02-21 03:01 am UTC (link)
Recall the fiasco at the end of the last season of The Next Food Network Star?

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Re: The Food Network hasn't had the best background checks, huh?
[info]everflow
2008-02-21 03:37 am UTC (link)
OH the guy that they kicked out because he lied about EVERYTHING even his name?

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[info]sparowe
2008-02-21 04:31 am UTC (link)
This after he came to our Faire in Maryland--the recently aired "Medieval Mayhem" episode--and turned our cast upside down accommodating him....

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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-21 04:58 am UTC (link)
Really?

Do tell...

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[info]sparowe
2008-02-22 12:41 am UTC (link)
If you've seen the ep in question, it took place at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. My troupe (The Free Lancers) were involved in the beginning and end of the show. We got our knights in armour early and kept them there so that the challenge could be delivered--which is a bit more daunting than you might think, being this is the real thing. :/ Lots of takes, and lots of things that we had to say "No" to. Then at the end of the day, we ran an extra joust for them, after the last show of the day. Plus got him into armour, as well. I do have to say that I like the way they ended it--with him running away, rather than using footage of our Commander (in the icon) jousting, and saying that it was Irvine....

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[info]blackjackrocket
2008-02-21 09:23 am UTC (link)
Oh my. And I was just watching his show earlier too.

Please tell me at least Alton Brown and Duff Goldman are spared from the wank. My delicate sensabilities!

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[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-21 02:18 pm UTC (link)
Absolutely everything I hear about Alton Brown is that he's a stand-up guy: what you see is what you get.

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[info]eric_williamson
2008-02-26 02:14 am UTC (link)
I'll take the original Iron Chef any day. I've met Sakai, Morimoto, and Kenichi now. Just missing Kobe (excluding the older chefs..) Just wish I could find DVDs of it to buy. BTW, Kenichi's family is from Yibin, Sichuan, China, where my Grandmother's from - we had a great conversation in Chinese despite the god awful heat and humidity of August in DC. They did a great cook-off against local chefs, and honestly, it was a lot of fun to watch. The taping probably slows it down and makes it boring - oh, and they made and served all their dishes on the spot.

And AB is absolutely awesome. Met him at a book signing - very nice and personable - and truly a science geek with a great sense of humor. :)

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[info]killians1978
2008-02-21 03:04 pm UTC (link)
It's amazing that anyone can get away with lying that huge for that long. Makes me wish I had a face for camera and a bri-ish accent.

I've despised Sara Lee, Emeril Lagasse, and Tyler Florence, and that effeminate weirdo from the Low-Carb show for a long time. The network needed big personalities like Paula and Emeril when they were first starting out, but now people are drawn to ICA's exaggerated showmanship and Alton Brown's down-to-earth geekitude. Even Rachel Ray is getting on my nerves since she became Oprah's lapdog. Giada can stay, as long as she keeps wearing v-cut blouses and stops doing shows in Paris with her husband.

I forgot where I was going with this.

More Alton Brown!

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False chief ?!? Nooooo....(crazied howls of laughter)
[info]superadie
2008-02-22 01:38 pm UTC (link)
Mwaa waa waa!!! No, seriouly? He said he had a castle and was a knight? And those crétins believed it? Arf, honestly, and I know it may appear a tad cruel, but, cripes, I do love America and its excesses and gullibility....
Oh, man, did I forgot to tell you I was a french baroness in disguise?
Really great, and enlighted an otherwise boring day!
A bientôt, John!

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Re: False chief ?!? Nooooo....(crazied howls of laughter)
[info]zonemind
2008-02-22 05:16 pm UTC (link)
That was kind of my response as well. "They believed it?! And they're the arbiters of our culture?!!"

To be fair, the difference between an aristocrat and a parvenu is that the aristocrat's parvenu ancestors got away with it. Still, I could probably name a fair chunk of the living GBE off the top of my head, there only being 100, and further would balk at the notion of his inclusion in the order of the British Empire when personal service is typically honoured with the Victorian Order.

And the Crown never gives away castles anymore. I hear you can buy ruins cheap, though. Provided, of course, you have pounds sterling and not the American peso.

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Re: False chief ?!? Nooooo....(crazied howls of laughter)
[info]muskrat_john
2008-02-23 03:37 pm UTC (link)
"Oh, man, did I forgot to tell you I was a french baroness in disguise? "

Really?

Want to host a Food Network show? I hear they have an opening!

:-)

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Re: False chief ?!? Nooooo....(crazied howls of laughter)
[info]muskrat_john
2008-04-02 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Could you drop me an e-mail at john@kovalic.com?

Soon?

:-)

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[info]zonemind
2008-02-22 04:51 pm UTC (link)
I actually feel for the guy. Of course, I'm not a foodie, and I regard the whole cultural phenomenon with deep suspicion, so YMMV.

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[info]superadie
2008-02-22 05:58 pm UTC (link)
Well, I do, like to cook, and watch some cooking tv shows, even if they're not the same as you can watch, but I was amazed at the news... That people, decisionary people, believed this... Well, we have beheaded people for less than that (only joking, even if...)
Well, as you say, his bad for getting caught at it..
Have a nice day

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