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    In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy

    Reality Famewhore Chef Rocco DiSpirito Banished From 'Dancing' Eden

    Rocco DiSpirito Serves Up Hot Plate Of Bad Dancing

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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 able to share much of the info Sheila reports above.


    Speaking of which, there's another Top Chef live blog on Gawker tonight - it'll be posted around 9 Eastern, and the show starts at 10.


    How many commenters will know tonight's guest Martha Stewart, I wonder? What personal experiences will they share??

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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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 celebrity chef. Jeez Louise!

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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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.

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    Image of Clare Clare
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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--is hard. That's why all these guys--Rocco, Wolfgang Puck, Emeril, Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain, even your precious Tom Colicchio, Richard!--all want to get book deals and TV shows and endorse moderately-priced cookware on QVC, so they can get the hell out of the kitchen.


    (This comment brought to you by Clare's dad. Clare's dad: Continued curmudgeonosity since 1948.)

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    Image of HandsomeBwonderful HandsomeBwonderful
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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 celebuchefs. I would take Rachel Ray anyday over that metro poptart warmer. And to mention Bourdain and this loser in the same breath is blasphemy.
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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Did he just elicit my sympathy for Jeffrey Chodorow?

    Shit, he did!
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    12/17/08

    @fileunder: I was sympathetic to Chodorow when I watched The Restaurant. It was impossible to believe that Rocco had a successful restaurant elsewhere and so now he doesn't.


    Clearly only Mama was a successful chef in his family. And I couldn't believe he was making his old mama slave over a hot meatball pan when he was out snorting and drinking.

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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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 a regular basis, and some of us are taking shortcuts and just pouring in that powder, no butter or milk or anything, resulting in a really gritty meal that is unlike anything Kraft might depict on their box! For shame. Was it not Kelly Osbourne who once said "I love my Easy Mac"? Yeah, it was. And you thisclose to synonimizing (is that a real word?) Gawker commenters and "the gastronomic elite"! Fact: while some of us have eaten steak at the Hustler Club, none of us can review that joint like Bruni did, me-ow!


    And, for real, your dancing on that ABC show wasn't that bad. So what if Cloris Leachman outlasted you? That's AMERICA's fault, and not yours!


    You know what is your fault? Letting that jerkoff Chodorow bring that totes obnoxious intern into your fake TV restaurant that one episode. Or was it two episodes? Yeah, he was a fucking jerk. Who the hell did he think he was? Um, what did he do again? Touch your mama's meatballs? I swear, he was a punk, and he upset the wonderful chemistry on that show! Next time, just go with Gordon Ramsay instead, he's always asking for his risotto!


    And, for real, no more reality shows, just hang back, cook some pasta, and cook it well, don't forget the sauce, or the love, or the love sauce. Your customers will love you for it! Your love sauce, that is! All will be cool again. Just ignore the health inspectors when they walk through the door, because they're gonna want some of that love sauce, too.


    Peace out, brah. Stay less annoying. You'll be aiiight.


    Herbal essences,


    Aaron

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    Image of LasVegasPhil LasVegasPhil
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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) was looking at the $1500 a week going to fresh flowers and noticed that all of the flowers in the place were silk.
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    12/17/08

    @LasVegasPhil: Lulz, the flowers wuz coca plants!
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    Image of minou minou
    12/17/08

    @LasVegasPhil: $1500 a week isn't much of a coke habit.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Who’d’ve thought a guy named Rocco could be such a fragile flower?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/17/08

    @iplaudius: I know, he should be flippin' the bird and telling us all to blank* off!


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    *Trying to curb my potty mouth.

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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    12/17/08

    @BookishLookish: Yes! It would help his image and make us respect him more.


    P.S. New Years plans ... I might be in.

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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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.
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    12/17/08

    @Nic Fit: And Mario!! They can take Rachel Ray back. I have no use for her.
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    Image of RocketSurgeon RocketSurgeon
    12/17/08

    @Nic Fit: Bourdain's sense of humor is the key. All the other ones are so boring.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/17/08

    @Nic Fit:


    It's time to give the "celebrity commenter" culture another chance, with or without Foxy Brown.

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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    12/17/08

    @RocketSurgeon: Bourdain's sense of proportion is important also.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    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 of being a chef (as opposed to a cook) is that you treat food as art — intricate, refined, rustic, baroque, whatever, it's supposed to be overpriced and esoteric. The crowd he plays to should be people who love food and sophisticated dining, not the teevee. The "general public" eats at McDonald's all the damn time. If you have the talent then you should aspire to be more than McDonald's, Rocco.
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    Image of heartbreakturnip heartbreakturnip
    12/17/08

    @Colonel Mustard:


    Colonel Mustard in the comment section with a keyboard! Seriously, I'm quite sick of the beating anything refined has to take, and this constant genuflection at the altar of "real people." Most real people I know are fucking stupid, they have no taste, and they're terribly unhappy.

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/17/08

    @heartbreakturnip: I am as common as dirt. And I resent that.
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    Image of T.S._delegate T.S._delegate
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Awww were we really that mean?

    I hope he doesn't loose (di)spirit(o) over this.
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    12/17/08

    @T.S._delegate: Seriously, I didn't think he came up on this site that much, or like at all, from what I've been paying too.


    So why act like a soft-shell crab Rocco?

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/17/08

    @T.S._delegate: Li'l bitch needs to toughen up!
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    BookishLookish was starred BookishLookish was unstarred
    Image of T.S._delegate T.S._delegate
    12/17/08

    @contradicto: His comments are coming from inside the house!!!
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    Image of T.S._delegate T.S._delegate
    12/17/08

    @BookishLookish: by which you mean, de-shellack the hair, right?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/17/08

    @T.S._delegate: Heh. He needs to grow some as big as Momma's meatballs is all I'm sayin'. Whiner.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    12/17/08

    @BookishLookish:


    Be careful...the next time he turns up on Dancing with the Stars will be all your fault!

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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Desire to famewhore > desire to be world-class chef.
    Pretty simple, akshully.
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    Image of Larry Fine Larry Fine
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Yes Rocco's cocaine and booze addictions are this website's fault. Specifically, it's katastic's fault.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/17/08

    @pareenesnativityscene: She asked him to make her a sandwich and he didn't and she deserves her revenge!
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    12/17/08

    @BookishLookish: ...and it will be served cold, in sandwich form.
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    12/17/08

    @pareenesnativityscene: Kat has driven a lot of men to the drink, she has.
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    Image of Larry Fine Larry Fine
    12/17/08

    @BookishLookish: @phlox: Could I also have some soup with that?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/17/08

    @pareenesnativityscene: Delicious revenge soup, boiling hot and full of dangerous bay leaves?
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    Image of Larry Fine Larry Fine
    12/17/08

    @BookishLookish: Yes please Bookish. Personally delivered by your gorgeous self would make it even better!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/17/08

    @pareenesnativityscene: Have the boys been talking about me again?
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Uh, how do I say this gently? Rocco, STFU and go cook me some dinner. NOW.
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    12/17/08

    @bjonston: Make it monkfish and make it fast!
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