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more about #roccodispirito more comments → MisterHippity: A couple weeks back on the Top Chef live blog, we had TWO commenters who knew and actually worked for Rocco. (Rupert Pupkin and minou.) There were abl... more » MisterHippity: At least Wolfgang Puck has frozen pizzas for me to heat 'n' eat. Rocco, where is your line of frozen pizzas? I'm hungry! And you call yourself a celeb... more » procrastinator, esq.: Ha. Sheila, a Freudian slip? After working in the high-class kitchens of New York's Penisula Hotel Rocco DiSpirito: trained to be a dick. more » Clare: I don't understand - has he totally lost that passion to cook? Gael, honey, are you new?? Of course he has. Cooking--real restaurant line cooking--i... more » HandsomeBwonderful: Yeah, The Restaurant did wonders for illuminating the amount of douche that resides in him. Smug, unctuous and a nancyboy, he nuked the fridge for all... more » fileunder: Did he just elicit my sympathy for Jeffrey Chodorow? Shit, he did! more » Aaron Altman: Dear Rocco: Really, pal, you shouldn't take us seriously. After all, many if not most of us are still eating mac-and-cheese straight outta the box on... more » LasVegasPhil: There was more coke going up his nose at The Restaurant than Mama's meatballs going into mouths. My favorite was when Choderow (his financial backer)... more » iplaudius: Who’d’ve thought a guy named Rocco could be such a fragile flower? more » Nic Fit: The whole "celebrity chef" culture of the last 20 years or so is pretty retarded to begin with. The only good thing it gave us was Bourdain. more » Colonel Mustard: How do I put this? As a gastronome, as an acclaimed chef, he's not supposed to be investing in what "the general public" appreciate. The whole point... more » T.S._delegate: Awww were we really that mean? I hope he doesn't loose (di)spirit(o) over this. more » phlox✔: Desire to famewhore > desire to be world-class chef.Pretty simple, akshully. more » Larry Fine: Yes Rocco's cocaine and booze addictions are this website's fault. Specifically, it's katastic's fault. more » bjonston: Uh, how do I say this gently? Rocco, STFU and go cook me some dinner. NOW. more » -
#popculture
In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
Rocco DiSpirito used to be a critically-acclaimed chef, but then he did that show the Restaurant and then Top Chef and The Biggest Loser and finally Dancing With the Stars. Now nobody respects him! -
#hownottogetlaid
Former celebrity chef and current frozen-foods pitchman Rocco DiSpirito buys bikes for co-dependent models. [NY]
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#helpingpeople
Who Really Wants To Save Darfur?
Like AIDS before it, Darfur has become the shibboleth one clueless celebrity whispers to another to assure themselves that they aren't shallow and callous. With the exception of a scarce few (Mrs. Brad Pitt, for instance), these blithe young things have no idea of what they speak. But does it matter? The argument could be made, as it was last night at the Rip the Runway for Darfur event hosted by Lydia Hearst, that that doesn't matter. The words of celebrities, no less than their unshaven nether parts, carry a dizzying gravitas: If Lydia Hearst says "Save Darfur," the hope is it will trickle down until some slavering acolyte Googles the word. (Darfir? Darfer?) Call it a Reagonomics of good will. But last night, Lydia Hearst was "sick" and didn't show. Neither did other expected guests like socialites Tinsley Mortimer, Fabiola Beracasa nor Olivia Palermo. Gawker photographer Nikola Tamindzic and I were left to document Bertolli-shill Rocco DiSpirito, Hofstra senior and publicistgay Micah Jesse and an international debutante named Laura Dubois as they drank free Level vodka. More » -
