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Next Food Network Star #501 Episode Recap
Published on: June 8, 2009 – 9:52 am by Jillian Madison 
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Another year, another batch of painfully inept Next Food Network Star contestants!
We’re off to a slow start this season, guys. Last night’s overly-hyped NFNS5 premiere was definitely a bit on the boring side. Had Alton Brown not referred to Jamika Pessoa’s shrimp as the “gatekeeper of badness,” the episode would have been completely void of any laughs (well, other than Teddy Folkman’s bright orange pumpkin shirt, of course). But don’t give up just yet; Bobby Flay promised the “challenges would be much tougher” this year. We’re thinking that means the finalists will have to eat an entire meal at Applebees, beat Alton Brown at a game of Trivial Pursuit, and/or correctly identify Giada’s bra size.
Within the first 5 minutes, the contestants were already spewing the typical rehearsed NFNS buzzwords to pigeonhole themselves into pretty Food Network categories for all the less cerebral viewers out there. Teddy Folkman repeatedly referred to his slop as “gourmet bar food,” and Jen Isham called herself “Housewife 2.0″. What is that even supposed to mean, anyway? Housewife 2.0? Are you saying there was only ONE other version of housewife before you? Wow, you’ve come a long way, baby!
29 year old sous chef Eddie Gilbert is boring and monotone, in a creepy serial killer sort of way. He didn’t nickname himself, but he did serve up about a dozen cheesy after school special quotes. Our favorite Eddie-ism of the evening? “You cant keep a tiger in its cage if it doesn’t want to be caged.” Really? I think Siegfried & Roy would beg to differ.
For their first challenge, the contestants had to cater a party thrown in honor of the Food Network’s 16th year of bastardizing cooking programs. They were split into two teams of 5; Executive sous chef Brett August was the captain of the green team, which also included Teddy, Jamika, Jen, and Melissa. Restaurant consultant Debbie Lee was the captain of the red team, which also included Michael, Edward, Katie, and Jeffrey.
Each team was given $1,200 for food and supplies, but that didn’t prove to be enough for Debbie Lee and Michael Proietti’s red team. They ended up going over budget at the grocery store… not because they bought too much food, but because en route to the store, Michael saw a bedazzled neck tie he simply had to have.
Unfortunately for the red team, money wasn’t their only issue. The store was sold out of the dough Debbie needed for her team’s beignets. So, she turned to page 8 of her “What Would Sandra Lee Do” handbook and just purchased some STORE-MADE ANGEL FOOD CAKES instead. And somewhere in America, Kerry Vincent loosened her headband, clutched her hand to her chest, and collapsed.
We interrupt this regularly scheduled review to ask a very serious question: WHAT EXACTLY is that thing that pokes out of Jeffrey Saad’s throat at random intervals? We’re a bit concerned. It doesn’t look like an Adam’s apple. It looks like he swallowed Guy Fieri.
You might want to get that checked out, Jeff. Anyway. Once they were finished cooking, the 10 contestants finally joined the party. Luckily, for our amusement, Duff Goldman, Giada De Laurentiis, Anne Burell, Alex Guarnaschlli, and several other Food Network personalities were there to gawk at them as they awkwardly introduced themselves and their dishes. Most of the contestants were clearly nervous, but it was Teddy Folkman who made the biggest fool out of himself with his rambling nonsensical speech. “Hi everybody, I’m Teddy Folkman and I’m coming at you from the mind of a chef,” he said. Cut to a shot of Giada and Alton Brown looking half bored and half mortified. Priceless.
Katie Cavuto didn’t do much better. Once she got in front of the microphone, she morphed into a 7 year old girl who was talking to her little dollies. It was downright creepy. And it didn’t help that she used the word “colorful” more frequently than my 5th grade art teacher.
Tasting time! Melissa D’Arabian burned her apple tarts, but the judges liked them anyway. The judges also enjoyed Michael Proietti’s spicy filet mignon. But Eddie Gilbert’s deconstructed BLT blast balls had “no flavor,” Jamika’s shrimp was disgusting, and the supposedly brilliant Teddy Folkman’s potatoes were RAW. Overall, the food was disappointing and substandard.
In the end, Jeffrey Saad was declared the winner of the first challenge, while Jen Isham and Eddie Gilbert were the bottom two. Ultimately, though, Jen Isham’s boring green bean dish got her sent home.
And that brought this week’s episode to an end! Stay tuned next week, when the contestants choke during their first direct to camera presentation. Then, tempers flare and tears flow as they create a celebration meal for Giada De Laurentiis, Bob Tuschman, and the rest of the NFNS judges.
(What did you think of the episode? Who are your early favorites? Who don’t you like? Are you shocked they let Debbie stay, even after she purchased and served store bought angel food cake?)
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This is definitely going to be a tough season to watch – so far, I’m really not crazy about ANY of the contestants :-( Maybe it’ll get better/more interesting?? One can only hope…
Two things that jumped out for me.
The first being that there seemed to be a lot of shots of Giada smiling looking glamorous and saying nice things. Perhaps they finally realized how she come across when she is left on her own and are trying to remake her image.
The second was laugh able when Tushman was going on and on about character. How important it is at FN and how you can’t/won”t be on FN if you have a lack of moral character. I beginning to wonder if he’s forgotten about nasty the above mentioned Giada is. But the first person who comes to mind is Robert Irvine. Hello? Then as if to drive all this home. After this speech there is a commercial for Irvinve’s new show.
I think irony is lost on these people.
Yes, all the talk about integrity was hilarious, coming as it was from the folks who brought back Robert Irvine.
Debbie should have been let go just for her lies and sabotage (intentional or not) of her team’s dishes. Oh wait, there’s that integrity thing again.
It was all I could do to watch the show from start to finish, but I forced myself (and lived to tell about it.)
Jen’s green beans didn’t wow the judges (no surprise). I mean, GREEN BEANS! What was she thinking? Anyway, bu-bye Jen. I had hoped Debbie would have actually gotten cut for lying about the grocery budget (over her limit and didn’t even get all the supplies needed for her team) and then trying to pull off store bought angel food cake. I had flashes of Aunt (hic)(erp) Sandy’s Kwanza cake. I’m still not sure what exactly they put on the cake pieces. Strawberry jam? Whatever it was, it looked like crap and should never have been presented. That to me should have sealed the deal on Debbie. Lucky for her housewife 2.0 had no imagination.
Overall, I thought Jeff was the most credible and genuine. The rest of them could have gone back with Jen, packed their respective bags and bid us a fond farewell. They were all non-starters. I was trying to imagine each of them having their own show and just couldn’t see it. None of them showed any prowess in the kitchen (although on FN that doesn’t seem to matter). I didn’t get a sense that any of them had any experience or skill and were reaching to prepare their dishes.
I’ll continue to watch but it ain’t gonna be easy….
Dare I say that I came to the conclusion last night that Alton Brown has fallen into the FN fabricated trap of turning everyone in its path into a caricature of their once selves. I’ll admit that I was a fan of his before it was cool to like Alton Brown. I haven’t watched him in forever, but on all the recent occasions I have, he presents himself as such an arrogant, petulant brat. Sorry, I digress.
Last night’s episode = snoozefest and I don’t like any of the contestants. It boggles my mind how they manage to find and cast increasingly annoying people season after season. And lest we not forget that this show has never been successful, where are all the “stars” they are manufacturing? The Hardy Boys? Fieri? Amy Finley? Big Daddy? And that’s all I have to say about that.
The candidate I DISLIKE the least is Jeffrey Saad. He obviously has skills.
And, he seems to have more maturity and dignity than the others. Oh wait . . . the biggest fool will win, right?
Sorry Jeff.
I haven’t seen this episode, and I absolutely refuse to watch this series after Gertler got the shaft. “The Next Food Network Star” so-called competition is a farce, anyway. They’ve taken the viewer’s input completely out of the equasion, I’m sure now they have a “winner” in mind before they even start filming the show, and the rest of the “contestants” are just cannon fodder. Lambs for the slaughter at the altar of Goddess Susie, She of the Grim, Soulless, Dead Shark Eyes. The challenges are all subjective and impossible to win. “You each have a bowl of Spanish onions and a bag of rock salt! Make apple pie with just that! You have ten minutes! GO!” And, hey, I’d like to see cutie-pie Cat Cora make Coq au Vin in just 45 minutes! Seriously, did Aida Mollencamp have to do ANY of that shit to get the show Adam should have done? Can Jim O’Connor or Mark Summers even crack an egg? I’ll go out on a limb and say that, without even seeing an episode, the finalists for Season 5 of TNFNS will be Eddie Gilbert and Jamika Pessoa, with Jamika winning it all because she is photogenic and African-American.
And before you ask, I know who the contestants are because I looked them up at the Food Network website and made my judgement from that alone.
Well, even store-bought angel food cake is only marginally worse than the original dessert idea, which was jelly-filled beignets made from canned biscuits. I mean, please, even Aunt Sandy could do better.
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FNH, thank you for watching NFNS … so I don’t have to.
Thank you FN for axing that annoying Barbie 2.0. No way would she make a show watchable. And Anne Burrell talking about the Tart Lady being too “twitchy” after 10 minutes? Ever watched your own show, Cookie Monster?????
Too bad the first show wasn’t a double elimination. Debbie had no business sticking around after sticking it to her team.If FN wants a diva at the cooktop, they’ve got one.
Oh – and that guy with the weird in-an-out accent “from Bedlam to Brooklyn” or whatever he said in an old Jewish New Yawker accent? For real???
What was up with Big Daddy’s look last night? Even his accent was really toned down. Is this intellectual style the real Aaron or was he just trying to look that way in front of his bosses?
My favorite part of the episode was when (off-screen) one of the food network reviewers said “Nasty” in a very ghetto way.
I cannot believe Alton Brown has turned into a Food Network asshole. This is disturbing.
@Lily – do you think he’s become an asshole or do you think he may have been purely miserable having to participate? I have a hard time imagining AB as being nothing but a good guy…
Let’s hope he was just miserable after being forced to participate in this nonsensical excercise in FN stupidity.
I too really like Alton Brown. He represents what IS right with Food Network.
I think he looked around and thought to himself “WTF am I doing here with these people ? Maybe it’s time I jump networks to one where they have quality content standards and I do not have to partake in such ludicrous shows”.
New to this site and I love it! While I watch the FN and like a number of shows I was pretty bored with NFNS last night. More impossible tasks that even the “stars” couldn’t do. The first couple of seasons were much better.
I agree with Scoobie-Doobie-Doo, Anne Burrells comment about about getting “twitchy” wow, the first time I watched her show I thought she couldn’t possibly talk like that in all her shows could she?
It amazes me – I remember seeing some of the first shows the “stars” have done and they weren’t any better. How quickly we forget.
I don’t think Alton is a bad guy, just depressed that this is the sort of crap he has to go through to get his own ideas on air. He does act like a know-it-all because, well… he is. Give me Alton or Mario Batali’s smarmy attitude that can be backed up with genuine knowledge than these lame contestants’ horrid attempts at convincing the American public that they know what the hell they are talking about.
Jillian, LMAO the “gatekeeper of badness” is priceless!! I only watched the show because I knew how much fun you would have with it on FNH. Katie Cavuto’s eyes are scary as hell, and although Jeffrey Saad’s neck looks like he swallowed Giada’s head, he gets my vote for now. As far as Alton Brown is concerned, I find his personality appealing. So what if he acts a bit gruff toward the contestants, it makes for a better show anyway. In any case I think he’s brilliant, and from other people’s comments I’ve read in the past, he’s genuinely nice and warm to his fans, and I think that matters more to him than some silly group of wanna-be chefs. Alton is definitely not the type to kiss anyone’s ass that’s for sure and I admire him for that.
I hope we’re right about AB. He does know his stuff and is seemingly a misfit on the FN lineup of “shows”. He’d be a much better fit on PBS or even FLN. Let’s face it: no matter what programs are on FN, they’ll be to food what MTV is to music. AB is above that.
Funny recap! Loved the photos.
I only watched this flaming pile of crap so because I knew you’d skewer it. You delivered.
Whatever the hell is coming out of Saad’s neck needs to be checked out by a doctor. Looks like a scene from Alien.
Predictions? Who’s going to win the whole thing?
I’m going with… DEBBIE LEE.
Why? I think they picked her to win from the before the show even started filming. Just like Aaron McCargo last year.
They didn’t can her ass after purchasing Sandra Lee store bought cake? And instead got rid of Jen, for no real reason? Come on. Why not get rid of Teddy? His potatoes were raw. It’s not hard to cook a freakin potato.
If it’s not Debbie Lee, I think it will be a woman this year.
Katie Cavuto’s eyes creep me out. Eddie Gilbert is dull and boring. And Teddy Folkman needs to enroll in VH1’s Tool Academy.
Alton Brown was rude last night. But hey, look what we’re all talking about? Alton Brown’s comment. It was the only newsworthy event of the boring 60 minute show.
Really dull opening episode. Hoping it picks up.
Based on the opening episode alone I’m going with Saad to win it all. He probably bought his way onto the show.
I was bummed that there weren’t more powerful personalities, but I think some of them will come around.. I hope so anyway!
I don’t recall Jen’s parting words, but I think she was the best choice to leave… those green beans look lifeless! Debbie was well received by the people, hence her staying, but I think that little fib she said when they got back from the store will cost her any chance of winning.
Brett and Katie get on my last nerve, but I really like Jamika, Michael, and I’m mildly attracted to Eddie.
Alton Brown was the only reason I watched that crap-fest. And that’s an hour of my life I can’t get back now.
As for the way AB acted, I didn’t think is was particularly bad. And considering he was stuck in that train wreak, he acted better than I would have.
From meeting Alton several times, I can tell you he is a warm, witty, funny, intelligent and charming man. So gracious to his fans. The Food Network doesn’t deserve him!
While Debbie may have made a huge mistake with the dessert, they still kept her because of her Korean heritage. I think the judges feel that FN needs more ethnicity. I personally hope she wins, because I want to see more of the Korean/Southern food she speaks about.
If ethnicity is what they want, then why draw it out in a long and painful to watch “contest”? Just give whomever a show and forget about it. It’s just crazy.
I attend UGA, which is where Alton Brown got his degree, and I know a couple of people who knew him way back when. They say he’s always been a little neurotic, but a generally pleasant guy. I think if I had almost-OCD standards for the quality of my product, I’d be miserable attending the mess that was last night’s episode too! The look on Morimoto’s face was just priceless. He clearly wasn’t impressed either.
I really had a hard time paying attention to the show last night. Instead of getting crappy new ’stars’ and creating new shows, FN should just bring back the good ol’ folks and/or recycle old episodes. I’d rather watch the same old episodes of good TV than this BS. I agree with the comment about more Asian food on the food network, though and I hope Debbie wins for that reason. To my knowledge, Ming Tsai’s show is the only specifically Asian show I recall being shown on FN. :[ I miss being a kid and being able to watch all the cool shows.
Count me in the “Anne Burrell is definitely the pot calling the kettle black” (or should it be the spaz calling the other twitchy?) whatever.
As for AB, I truly think that it’s the editing that makes him look so pompous and such. I think that the editing, in fact, is a lot of what’s wrong with this show. Want to predict the person going home that week? It will never be the person who LOOKS like the obvious choice by virtue of the comments they choose to show from the judges nor will it be the person who obviously did the best. It is always the one who may have had a negative comment or 2, but it’s never a HUGE negative.
Like Melissa’s camera presence- she reminded me of an older, more toned down version of Kelsey from last year. I also liked Jamika – she showed smarts and planning ahead with the make-ahead dish (even if the shrimp wasn’t all that great). The dude who kept calling all the girls pretty and stuff – ew. (it takes me 4 episodes before I get all the names straight, sorry!). Debbie reminded me of a cross between Margaret Cho and Roseanne…And the one guy SO looked like Ray Liotta, when RL has been on a sit-com lampooning himself…
Have the public vote like Idol. These competitions are so rigged it insults the intelligence of most viewers.
I called McCargo to win last year and took bets with all my co-workers who thought I was crazy. I won several hundred dollars in the process.
My call this year ? Either the Korean chick or the black woman. Definitely need a visible minority woman on board.
If we stop watching maybe FN will stop putting this garbage on … I’m not watching and still able to follow with the at-home version (this site) and my friends that are yet to realize FN is (with few exceptions) a Joke.
We need more Hungry Detective – a real food fan without pretense… not ‘will ‘ho for food’…
To Steve: I don’t think they strictly whore themselves out for food, so much as they whore themselves out for attention
Debbie seems like a bitch who didn’t think twice about leaving other people’s ingredients behind but she made sure all her crab cakes got made. She reminds me of Colombe from season 3, who was a terrible team leader who also made bad decisions. I couldn’t believe Debbie initially tried to explain away the angel food cake thing as a “group effort” when it was completely her decision alone. Kind of funny that Giada seemed to like Debbie so much, I guess it takes one to know one.
Jeffery seems like he will go far even though he does have a huge Adam’s apple, he was able to make a passable dish without his ingredients and he didn’t flop in front of the camera. I’m not sure about Eddie yet, his BLAST bowl thing looked disgusting.
I think they made the right decision in letting Jen go, she didn’t put a lot of effort into her dish and I’m surprised that a housewife even got as far as she did. She didn’t seem like an authority on food.
I think Debbie did what a lot of people would have done as far as leaving others’ ingredients behind. After all, it IS a competition. In a competition you’ve got to take care of yourself before anyone else. Not like FN really cares anyway. xP
It’s painfully obvious that TPTB are wildly uninterested in grooming a new star; they just want people to tune in, judge the contestants, and say to themselves “I can do that!” and then submit their pathetic tapes for the next iteration. This is the highest-rated show on their network; I’m sure they would be happy with a new, genuine star, but to me, the endgame seems to be the immediate ratings boost.
Sadly, this cast reflects that mentality: none of them are terribly interesting (it was nice that the guy who won was competent, but other than his stupid hair, how would I remember him?) and we have yet to see them go on camera, face-to-lens. It’s all well and good that Tusch and Susie are saying that these stupid challenges show “grace under pressure,” but isn’t performing well while filming a television show pressure enough?
Unwatchable. My FN loving son made us watch for 10 minutes and the look on AB’s face said it all – you made me fly up here from Atlanta for this?
And what the hell was Duff Goldman doing there outside of the sad fact he has a show on FN? Last I noticed he hoodwinks dopes into spending thousands on candy-clay thrown on to styrofoam, wood and bits of cake. When they create Next Food Network Scam Artist, have Duff host the show.
As for the result, who cares. This show gave us Fieri, his four shows, the Knuckle Sandwich line of garbage he peddles and the endless string of TGI Friday’s ads. (Good Lord, this jackass actually has four shows…cancel NFNS now!)
I can not watch these shows and without thinking about the MTV who wants to be a VJ crap. It is as if these contests are designed to give us a choice between two evils when all is said and done. The only winner I like watching is Guy and only when he does the diners drive in and dives. (and I only like that as opposed to Rachel or Giada taking mini bites of food and having mini orgasms).
I have little hope for this season, but I gotta have my food network crack.
Frenchfille–So glad to know I’m not the only one who has seen Alton Brown act like a diva on TNFNS. When I was watching this a year or two ago, on one particular show he came across as being completely arrogrant and self-absorbed that when I called it out on some other forum everyone looked at me like I was a retard. That’s when I knew Alton was some sort of sacred cow amongst a sizable contingent of FN snarks.
The winner will be Debbie Lee, because, well just look at her.
If you don’t get sent home for serving up a dessert Sandra Lee would have been ashamed of, you are the predetermined winner.
I wonder why the hell Duff Goldman was doing on this show. This guy is the most useless piece of crap on TV. Total scam artist. And he suffers from gyno mastia.
ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF TNFNS!!!!
…Jeffrey “Marquis D” Saad drops out to film the sequel to his previous hit movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”
…Michael Proetti gets caught having a clandestine competition with Duff to determine whose bitch tits reign supreme…Geoff is called in to sample each contestant and issue a ruling
…Debbie Lee takes off her “Nutty Professor” costume and admits that she is really Sandra Lee…she realized that everyone was wise to her after SpongeCake-Gate (she just couldn’t resist the 70% store bought rule!)
…Katie Cavuto, desperate to remain on the show, goes in for eyeball reduction surgery but it goes wrong and she returns to episode 2 as a cyclops
…Eddie returns with a new hairdo that resembles a french tickler moreso than its former look of an angry penis…he also asks to borrow Jen’s personality since she got canned and he lacks one
All of the earlier comments are spot on, but I would just like to add how I was so enthralled by how rude ALL of the present FN hosts were acting at this 16th anniversary celebration. Even my fav Duff Goldman was in rare form. I bet they were all told to be totally rude just for the sake of the show, and to bring on the drama.
I mean, lets be serious, what did they all really have to do to get their own shows? Anne Burrell in particular, makes me crazy. Her show is far from entertaining, and her hair looks like its got a life of its own, so she cannot comment on Melissa being too spazzy for a FN host.
I personally like Michael the best, even though his personality is a bit over the top. He can obviously cook, since his dish was in the top 3, and the FN needs an interesting host like him on the network to shake things up a bit. Debbie would just be another boring Saturday morning “in the kitchen” host that makes her “Korean infused southern dishes.” Jeffrey would be another contender in my eyes too, but theres something creepy about him that I can’t get my hands on quite yet…he seems a little too quiet to be a TV personality right now though…
I will stick around for next week’s episode, but if it doesn’t get exciting, I’m out!
@HEWHOSE – I am afraid that Katie’s surgery may go yet another way and we will be witness to her morphing into ‘THE FLY’….HELP ME!!!!!…….then she fly-vomits on Debbie, hoping never again having to eat another store bought cake ala Aunt (hic)(burp) Sandy.
@Byrdie
Interesting thought!
Even better though…how about she morphs into a mosquito and spreads the West Nile love around to the rest of this hapless cast? Or, maybe Gina Neely can drop by and infect everyone with the Swine flu perhaps??
Swine flu, Gina Neely who would have thought ?
Do you think we will be seeing more of Goldman and his executive sous chef, Sporty McSport Shorts ?
That angel food cake fiasco was gross to even look at. I’m never sure what people are thinking when they think they can pass off crap food and think they are going to win over the judges. I think it’s to early for me to really like anyone just yet. I would really appreciate if a real cook could win this year. I don’t want to see anymore thoughtless half purchased from the grocery store meals anymore. I actually enjoy learning new techniques and recipes…to bad FN is only concerned with fast money saving meals…uggggg.
I agree with Jenna and Lollipop: Debbie seems like the winner in my eyes although FN already has shows devoted to “Southern” cuisine. FN highlighted some quote Giada(?) said about how allegedly wonderful Debbie is. I want to scream at her that I’ve lived in the South all my life and I’ve never seen a crab cake.
I’m with you RD! I’ve never seen a crab cake in the south unless I was in the south of Maryland or Jersey.
Many restaurants in NC serve crab cakes, so you certainly can find them in the South. Probably more of a coastal thing though, I’m not sure if they are as popular in the Southern states that are farther inland. Can’t really speak to that. You are missing out RD.
As a Texas (and yes, we consider ourselves Southerners as well) a crab cake isn’t unheard of around these parts but it’s certainly not what we would consider traditional “Southern Cuisine”. The world is a very small place these days and here in Texas (Dallas) you can get fantastic Lebanese, Ethiopian and Vietnamese food just as easily as you can find more traditional Southern staples such as BBQ, black-eyed peas with cornbread and some awesome Mac N’ Cheese!
oops!…meant to say “As a Texan” not “As a Texas” in my prior post…that would more accurately describe the circumference of Alex G’s ass (a little bit a’Junk in da’ Trunk!)
You know the J.I.T.(?)…yeah you know me!!
I’m on the other end of Texas (Houston) and being so close to the coast, we have great amounts of shrimp and fresh fish (redfish, flounder, catfish etc), oysters, mudbugs. I’ve yet to see crab unless it’s packed and shipped in from Louisiana. It’s not that there isn’t any crab, it’s just not the focus among all the other fresh seafood items available. MMMMM!! Don’t need alot of fancy “fixins” when the seafood and shellfish are excellent! So don’t need another “southern” tv cooking show. It’s a waste of energy.
I’m from North Carolina. I live in the coastal plain (not on the coast). Still haven’t seen a crab cake…
Also wanted to post this earlier, but the comment section was wacky earlier. Am I the only person who finds Bob Tuschman’s attempts at being witty awful? The shrimp dish and his “best of times, worst of times” line comes to mind.
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I must say, Jeffrey Saad’s sweat is worse than the Adam’s apple. Ewwww!