Rachael Ray: Delish or Diva?
January 25, 2008 by Tracey Thompson
Filed under Recipes
Boy, I am out of commission for a couple of days and bam…Rachael Ray is all a buzz around the Internet. It appears that there have been some vicious rumors that the Dunkin Donut’s pitch gal prefers Starbucks and actually demanded that be served to her on the set where Ray was shooting the Dunkin’ commercials.
The rumor all started over at Grub Street with someone writing in:
So a friend of mine was on set last week as Rachael Ray filmed her latest Dunkin’ Donuts commercial. According to her, Rachael stormed onto the set and snapped at everyone. Not news, I know, everyone knows she’s actually a gigantic asshole. BUT! I am also told she took one sip of her Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, yelled “What is this shit? Get me MY coffee,” and would not continue until she was given “her” coffee — i.e., Starbucks.
From The Boston Herald.com:
“She’s a total pain in the (bleep),” said one spywitness. “Late all the time, a pain to work with and diva-ish beyond her standing as a quasi-celebrity.”
The Rachael rant follows a New York maggie report that Ray, who has a three-year, $4 million-a-year deal to shill for the Canton-based coffee kingpins, reportedly demanded Starbucks while shooting a DD spot and disparaged the local brew in front of the whole production crew.
But according to Dunkin Donuts and Ray, this is gibberish. Ray recently set the record straight with OK! Magazine:
OK! caught up with the multimedia mogul at Friday’s taping of The Rachael Ray Show at Bryant Park’s Skating Rink in NYC and gave her a chance to clear the air. And Rachael told OK! exclusively that the rumor is nothing more than hogwash.
“Ridiculous,” she said when asked about the scurrilous rumor. “It’s ridiculous. It’s absolutely ridiculous.”
