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pop culture
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! -
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Reality Famewhore Chef Rocco DiSpirito Banished From 'Dancing' Eden
We'll start out by saying we've never really been a Dancing with the Stars person, just like we've never been a cat or coconut person. Not that we aren't amenable to garish talent competitions—but there's something so pungently desperate about this particular affair, so, "Look at me world! I've found my Z-list celebrity purpose again!" that it manages to exceed even our vast capacity for brain-smoothing frivolousness. That said—what a show! More » -
disasters
Rocco DiSpirito Serves Up Hot Plate Of Bad Dancing
Poor reality show also-ran Rocco DiSpirito. The "celebrity chef," who used to date New York gossip maven Deb Schoeneman (best friend of Gawker profiler Vanessa Grigoriadis! circles!), has had to watch not only his TV show but also his restaurant fail with the NBC reality mess The Restaurant, and has recently been relegated to shilling frozen dinners, concocting failed television shows starring himself, and being a smug judge on Top Chef. His latest public shaming involved shimmying in pink ruffled costumery as a contestant on Last Exit to Hollywood competition show Dancing With the Stars. And the poor fella got voted off last night, defeated by feisty old clam Cloris Leachman, who is 82. Clip of the sad event after the jump. More » -
gag-abrands
Tony Snow And Waverly Inn Chef Will Explain Magazines
Former White House spokesbot Tony Snow will be the keynote speaker at the American Magazine Conference in Boca Raton, Florida at the end of the month. Men's Health editor David Zinczenko, the AMC 2007 chairman, is super jazzed about it. But should he be? Former keynote speakers included former President Bill Clinton, former future presidents Barack Obama and John McCain. Tony Snow was a regular guest host for the Rush Limbaugh Show and frontman for the band "Beats Workin'." He did, as Zinczenko made sure to mention, survive the cancer that God so unjustly gave him. Who else is speaking in Boca, and why? More » -
lunch plans
Former celebrity chef and current frozen foods pitchman Rocco Dispirito is bringing his unique blend of meatheadedness and meatballness to the Hearst Cafeteria today. Considering he guest-chef'd the Conde Nast lunchroom back in August, we'd have to say Hearst is getting served some sloppy seconds! Oh ha! [Sent From My Dell Desktop] -
how not to get laid
Former celebrity chef and current frozen-foods pitchman Rocco DiSpirito buys bikes for co-dependent models. [NY]
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helping people
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 » -
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you make a grown man cry
Hey, anyone who sees Bertolli frozen-dinner whore and ladyboy Rocco DiSpirito apportioning frozen pasta in Conde Nast's cafeteria right now, please thank him for breaking Joey's heart on Top Chef last night. Joey will be heading back to Long Island—Franklin Square, represent!—after that douchebag Rocco (Joey's word, not ours!) sent him home. You never want a see a guy from Long Island cry like Joey did. It's like when your dad tries to lift you up but he can't anymore and you realize he's old and will die some day and he realizes the same thing. And neither one of you say anything but both of you are a little sadder.
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spitting in your lunch
Rocco DiSpirito, former celebrity chef and now TV dinner spokesmodel, is the guest chef at the Conde Nast cafe today! Will he wear a hairnet? Will he make old-lady grunts while he ladles out the slop? Your first person accounts requested! Bonus points to anyone who nails him in a broom closet. Or to a broom, in a closet! No no, no violence. Just pity. [Eater] -
downfalls
Rocco DiSpirito Is Now A Purveyor Of Frozen Dinners
When we last left Rocco DiSpirito, star of "The Restaurant," a reality show about a failed restaurant opening, he was a lusty man about town, popular in the gossip columns for man-handling whatever hot young thing was nearest. Last year, there was allegedly an A&E reality show pilot; there was to be an autobiography film and a turn on Broadway. But those crazy ideas fell by the wayside as he followed his bliss. So now he's lending his name to TV dinners. More » -
media
Media Bubble: It's All About The Teenage Girls
- Federal government trying to make Times op-ed page less boring. [NYT] More »
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Rocco DiSpirito Will Cook For Food
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brangelina
Gossip Roundup: America's First Family Returns
• Brangelina, Shiloh, and "those other kids" plan on returning to Malibu this weekend. When their plane touches American soil, our country will celebrate the reclaiming of our national treasures. [TMZ] More » -
rocco dispirito
Rocco DiSpirito Likes the Theater, Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
Rocco DiSpirito went to the opening of a Broadway show last night — Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain, starring Julia Roberts — and showed off his sequined t-shirt. You know, to demonstrate how not gay he is. More » -
paris hilton
Gossip Roundup: Paris Hilton Pees, Marks Territory
• Best. Headline. Ever: "Hilton Publicists Fight Paris Peeing Claims." Do you even need the accompanying story? Oh, hell yes, you do. A Maui taxi driver claims that heiress was so drunk she pissed herself in the cab, creating a mess the driver was then forced to mop up with a towel. Of course, he has the towel and plans to using her DNA to prove his claim. We can't wait 'til we have the chance to buy that very towel on eBay. [WENN] More » -
naomi campbell
Gossip Roundup: Naomi Campbell, Fashion Week Heroine
• Naomi Campbell pitches a fit at the tents and, just like that, saves Fashion Week from utter irrelevancy. [R&M] More »
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