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- Emilia Cirker - Facebook 1, Facebook 2, Twitter, LinkedIn
- Jay Ducote - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Blog - Appeared on Cutthroat Kitchen, Fox's Masterchef, HBO's Treme, Eat St. on Cooking Channel, and Last Call Food Brawl on Destination America
- Christina Fitzgerald - Facebook 1, Facebook 2, Twitter, Youtube
- Rosa Graziano - Facebook 1, Facebook 2, Twitter - Featured on the Hallmark Channel, Cooking Channel's Eat St., and various cooking shows with her brother Rico.
- Matthew Grunwald - Facebook, Twitter, Youtube - Appeared on Cutthroat Kitchen and Cutthroat Kitchen Evilicious tournament.
- Eddie Jackson - Facebook, Twitter, Appeared on Fox's Masterchef, Played in the NFL
- Michelle Karam - Facebook, Twitter, Blog, - Appeared on Bravo's Rocco's Dinner Party
- Sita Lewis - Facebook, Twitter, Website,
- Alex McCoy - Twitter, LinkedIn, - Appeared on NBC's The Chopping Block in 2009. That show was canceled quickly.
- Arnold Myint - Facebook, Twitter, Youtube - Appeared on Bravo's Top Chef. Is a drag queen known as Suzy Wong.
- Rue Rusike - Facebook 1, Facebook 2, Twitter
- Dominick Tesoriero - Facebook, Twitter- Competed on Food Network's Rewrapped and won.
Also, here are the pictures and quick bios for each of the contestants from the Food Network site. If you want to watch the first episode before it airs Sunday on the Food Network, it is available to watch already.
Yes, let's hope everyone has been vetted this year. Had no idea that there is a Facebook #1 and #2. What is the difference between them? Hoping all season 11 finalists will become more active on their Twitter accounts once the first episode airs on TV.
ReplyDeleteAlso, while advice and mentoring are good things and any help from Bobby and Giada would definitely be great.....nonetheless, I would be disappointed if this season became "the Mentor show." Let's keep *most* of the focus on this years cooks (and lets let them Cook). It should be more about the finalists and their dishes than fashion, selling or telling them how to re-make every dish a "better" way. Challenges should be challenging but not so rediculous that its nearly impossible to be excellent. Many have already written/posted last year, and even earlier seasons, that the whole reality tv thing has gone too far and lacks credibility or relevance.
Thanks for the info Matt. I was pulling for Eddie when he was on Master Chef. I think he can cook and seems very likeable. I also like Jay Ducote I remember him from most of the programs, just not from Cutthroat ( probably because I don't watch it religiously). Whatever happened to Rocco's Dinner Party,I liked that show. I am trying to remember Michelle on it but just can't remember her....
ReplyDeleteThey have been over-pushing the fake storytelling aspect. Making every food story sound like a sophomore creating writing student essay with too many adjectives.
ReplyDeleteI liked all of the top three. Good cooks and personalities. All contenders.
ReplyDeleteBobby and Giada could tell us some of their stories.....you know......to let us know who they are!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFacebook has more than one kind of page: a personal account, and then there is a public type page for businesses, fans, etc.
ReplyDeleteNot a Matthew Grunwald fan. He posted a tweet by a fan on his Facebook page:
ReplyDelete"Teach people how to cook with the power of the hashtag." – Matthew's POV on #FoodNetworkStar
I tried to ask what that actually means. How does a hashtag teach people to cook? He deleted my question twice, then banned me from posting on his page... Wow.
Definitely interested in Eddie, Rue or Michelle this season.
If we could vote, he'd be gone.
ReplyDeleteHe is so incoherent, rude and vain! Definitely not my idea of a "star". 22 years old, and thinks he has nothing to learn from his peers. And the way he was looking at Susie Fogelson, as she gave him his critiques, made me scared for her safety!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite right now is Jay.
ReplyDeleteHe is there to annoy us and drive ratings. He has no shot at winning.
ReplyDeleteI didn't care for the blond lady either though "let me tell you something as a mom" is pretty condescending. All she did was "I'm a mom" and "as a mom" yeah you're not the only woman on Earth who cranked out kids. We don't even know if they turned out well.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get hooked by anyone. Maybe Mama Sita? And the South African cuisine woman would be something new to FN but her TV skills weren't hot.
Otherwise it's Lenny 2.0 (Jay) and Sandwich Prince. LOL. They're decent but I'm not too interested in following them. The drag queen kinda made gay seem boring, that's a quite a fete.
Let's see, I have no interest in a drag queen, if that's your POV I will watch repeats of Pawn Stars.
ReplyDeleteDom, if you have stage fright, do not go onto a television show called "Next Foodnetwork Star." You are going to be on the camera.
Matthew is there to be this season's "villain." He's the rambunctious puppy who needs to be smacked on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. And I do not advocate that training for puppies. "Hashtag?" That's the number sign or the pound sign. You are less than half my age, you have nothing to teach me.
my power went out!! When will it reair this week please!???
ReplyDeleteCan't stand Rocco (so full of himself and so many "injections") but LOVED that show and always looked forward to it.
ReplyDeleteI lost sound several times last night. It will repeat Saturday at 11:00 A.M. (CST).
ReplyDeleteI like him, too, and comparing him to Lenny is grossly unfair to Jay.
ReplyDeleteYeah, let's hear about their home lives.
ReplyDeleteyeah, they already HAVE a mom (Melissa played that card heavily IIRC).
ReplyDeleteHe's there to be the guy you love to hate, not unlike Penny Davidi in her season. Jeff Mauro—who is blogging this season on the FN site—is already enamored of him.
ReplyDeleteMelissa is still regularly introduced as "mother of four Melissa d'Arabian."
ReplyDeleteAgreed. There is nothing of Lenny in Jay. If he reminds me of any former contestant, it's Tom Pizzica.
ReplyDeleteVery well said.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the whole Mom-thing is sweet, but just not interesting enough. Ok, so yer a Mom. She spends more time talking about family than about what type of food she does and describing it. I think the mama-sita lady is a little too wound-up and loud. Already starting to wear on me.Alex I like but he has to change his point of view to something other than sandwiches. Maybe thai food?
ReplyDeleteTom Pizzica?? Tom was everything-to-the-extreme with his food. Jay doesn't come across that way. Jay is upbeat more-so than Tom was.
ReplyDeleteI like Jay but--tonight, everyone got to grab whatever ingredients they wanted and make what they wanted. In future challenges, that will likely not be the case, and then how will Jay do? But then, that applies to everyone else, too. I do wish that Food Network *would* have more challenges where finalists *can* pick their own ingredients and make the dishes they want to. It shows us better what they are capable of.
With all the snarky comments about each other, this seems more like training for Cut Throat Kitchen than for Star. I am so tired of Giada's posturing and cleavage shots and Bobby's "I'm really too cool for this" vibe. I watched ten minutes and then changed channels. This will be the first season I haven't watched, but since it has gotten so silly, it isn't worth my time.
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