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Somebody Ask Aida Why She Can’t Talk Into The Right Camera
Published on: September 12, 2009 – 12:58 pm by Jillian Madison 
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Dear Aida Mollenkamp,
Jillian Madison from Food Network Humor here. Quick question: WHY THE HELL DO YOU KEEP TALKING INTO THE WRONG CAMERA? Ever since Noah Starr left, you’ve been doing it 800-900 times per episode, and it’s seriously annoying. Are you brain damaged? Or are your producers just morons? Either way, I think I speak for all of humanity when I say YOU SHOULD STOP DOING IT IMMEDIATELY. Your show is hard enough to watch as it is, without you going all spastic on us.
Sincerely,
FNH
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Wow. I don’t remember her with quite so much make up. At least she wasn’t wearing that much in the 1/30th of the single show I have watched of hers.
I guess the ultimate “Ask Aidia” question would be “Where’s the camera?”
Photo #4: Aida’s pupils look FIXed and dilated. Which one of her 5-ingredient-FIXes caused that?
Yes, I totally agree. Watched this show this morning and kept getting that weird feeling, like she wasn’t speaking to her TV audience but rather to some unseen person or persons in the room. A little annoying!! This is just like so many commercials for banks, etc., on our local TV, where the spokesperson is sitting sideways and seemingly talking to the general public about their services but not wanting to “look us in the eye”, so to speak. I’d much rather the TV chefs look directly into the camera and make “eye contact” with the people who make the effort to watch their show – makes them seem to connect to us more. But, that said, her cookie recipes this morning looked pretty tasty and I actually printed out two of them to try for the holidays. It just took FOREVER for them to come up on the FN site!! ARRGH!!
Off topic here for a second … on the FN site there are some videos of our favorite Butter head chef, Alex G., talking about her life and her love of cooking. Didn’t realize she recently had a baby! That could explain why she was always being filmed sitting down at a table, to hide the pregnancy. She also mentioned in one of the videos that she was still trying to lose the baby weight.
The pregnancy might also explain her grumpiness!! haha
Off Subject!! Alton Brown’s new book ” the Early Years” is available for pre-order at Jessica’s Biscuit at 40% off.
Haha… FNH always seems to pick the funniest screen shots.
She IS wearing a ton of makeup! Yikes. I’ve noticed in the new programs (all four episodes of them)(snark) that even Ina is wearing jewelry and makeup, something she’s never done before. Are they all after Aunt(hic)(buurrp)Sandy’s daytime emmy nomination??
Anybody catch Sunny Anderson on the Neelys today? She was showing off her ugly new bob wig.
Because Bob Tushface thinks it’s edgy and cool. And Foglesap thinks it give her good camera presence.
Platypus lips!
“..even Ina is wearing jewelry and makeup, something she’s never done before.”
You’re right, Byrdie. I had so hoped and truly believed that Ina would have the personal integrity to not cave in to FN pressure.
Note to Ina: You’re fabulous just the way you are! If you let FN change you too much, some of your ardent fans may not like you.
Yep, Cherry Rose, I just hope the earings are as far as she’s going to go! Not like Pauler Poopy, diamonds dripping off her fingers as she sticks her hand in a bowl of butter and ________ (insert something here, it doesn’t matter what as long as it has four sticks of butter in it). Just what I want in my food: debris from her rings after she’s been scratching and petting her incontinent dogs. gak. (Hey, she’s just as incontinent outside as her dogs are inside…how ’bout that, y’all!!)
Byrdie that’s paula dean
How is she wearing a ton of makeup? If any of you have been involved in TV, you’d know that TONS of makeup is used to achieve that “natural, make-up less look”… so just because you can detect makeup on her face doesn’t mean she’s wearing more than usual.
Don’t any of you girls wear makeup???
FN is in serious need of a new makeup artist. Every brunette looks the same, every blond. I guess that makes sense because everyone has essentially the same content anyway.
That first pic is UTTERLY rediculous!
I agree with Teague; it’s probably just “hip” and “edgy” to not look at the camera. Or Aida’s stage director is a little slow.
Although, I have to ask: what’s the deal with that thing she does with her upper lip (as illustrated in pic #4)?
Gah — a little bit o’ the drunky-eye in one of those early shots. “just a little splash of wine… maybe a lil’ more… OK, some for me…”
Not that I liked her show to begin with, but it was better with Noah. I had to turn it off after a few minutes because of all the stupid camera angles. I felt like I was drunk watching it!
Yes, the camera angles are nauseating, and so is she. Do any of you think she’s some sort of authority on food or cooking? I don’t.
who cares, shes hot
Gordon Ramsey does the same thing on the shows (both British and American) where he “rescues” a failing restaurant. He runs outside and talks to the camera about what’s going on inside, except that he doesn’t look at the camera, he’s about 30 degrees off. The first few times I wondered what the heck is he looking at?
Maybe she’s wall-eyed and IS looking at the camera???????
This isn’t the first time she’s done this. I remember you called her out for doing it back in May on another show as well (http://foodnetworkhumor.com/2009/05/camera-1-camera-2-camera-1-camera-2/)
William, if you think she’s hot, you need to get out more, bro.
I don’t care if her show sucks or if she’s a moron who can’t look into the right camera, but sweet jesus is she good looking.
Maybe she forgets Noah isn’t there and keeps looking in that direction to talk to invisible Noah. Also, she is good looking. I’d hit that. And I mean that in the least gay way possible hahahaha
I think she does actually have some culinary training, so score one point for FN execs. However, it’s minus one point for those of us who watch her because she’s terribly annoying, IMO. Sure, she’s undeniably pretty. I personally think she’d be much prettier if she kept her mouth shut and just baked cookies. (I sound like a man!)
As far as the makeup, methinks were witnessing yet another example of somebody in hair and makeup at FN getting their hands on The Simpsons’ makeup gun while it was still set to “whore.”
@ Liz: yes I do wear makeup, and I have been on television where I live and I am aware of the amount of makeup they use to achieve a certain look. However it is supposed to look natural on camera. If the makeup is too obvious, as it is in this case, then someone is not doing their job very well and seeing as she is on television she is subjected to our scrutiny.
She looks just like Rashida Jones …another flat-personality annoyance who bizarrely has a tv career IMO.
Hilarious. BF and I were just making fun of her for this a few weekends ago.
I’m baffled by the fact that anyone finds her attractive. Maybe compared to Melissa DArabian or Anne Burrell yes, but in the grand scheme of life, hells no.
Regarding the camera why don’t you ask the camera man and editor since there is more than one camera when shooting a show???? She obviously knows how to look in the camera since the last 2 seasons she did just that. Have some quick ones on this website…
PS- She is beautiful…those who don’t think so sound like sour grapes.
I’m guessing ‘Dan’ is short for Danielle…haha
Malia, the only comments you’ve made on this website have been you defending Aida Mollenkamp to the point of making me nauseous. There are two options here:
1) Either you’re her, and don’t have the balls to admit it, and enjoy going around calling yourself hot,
or 2) You seriously need to go outside and get a life instead of trolling a humor website and defending a stranger.
Either way, buh-bye.
No, Aida, I mean Malia,
Dan isn’t short for Danielle. It’s short for “stop speaking on television because you suck at it.”
Jillian, don’t flatter yourself…I’m not Aida. Maybe as the WRITER of these articles YOU should get a life as you spend the time writing this ridiculousness.
Dan, I’m sure Aida has better things to do than to read your comments as well. Maybe you should get your own show since you think she should stop speaking on TV. Oh wait, it is much easier for you to hide and write on blogs. haha
You’re just making yourself sound more pathetic with every word you write, Malia. You should probably quit while you’re ahead.
Instead of foodnetworkhumor, you should change the name to foodnetworkhater since calling people moronic, annoying, brain damaged and pathetic isn’t humorous, it is just sad and mean.
Instead of typing 400 comments here, you should take Jillian’s advice and GO OUTSIDE AND GET A LIFE, HONEY. Run along now.
Time to get back on topic, like how awful Aida’s show is. If it gets renewed next year, I’ll eat my own foot.
Thank God this site exists. My friends and I can’t stand this woman. Listening to her talk is torture. The government should hire her and just force infidels to have a conversation with her. They’ll give up whatever info they’re hiding in 5 seconds flat.
Malia, take your Aida lovin’ ass to another website. I feel sorry for you if you feel the need to defend some person you don’t even know. That’s as pathetic as it gets.
Forgot to add, Aida looks like a supermodel after getting hit in the face by a bus.
Regardless of what she looks like, it’s her voice I personally can’t stand. Nails on a chalkboard come to mind. I don’t care where she went to school. She just comes across as dumb. I wouldn’t take her advice on how to boil water. Just my opinion.
Is Aida doing her best impersonation of the Joker in the first picture?
All you need is some red lipstick and some WHY SO SERIOUS? captions.
why do someone people keep saying she is on 5 ingridient fix? IS SHE!? I DONT THINK SO
say what you will and I don’t care. she’s cute plain and simple dorky screenshots and all.
People, please. She’s looking at the producer, who is trying to create a more “casual,” setting, as if the two of them are having a conversation and the audience is overhearing it.
I am positive of this fact as I have had to do it. It’s actually more difficult to do this b/c you have to remember NOT to look at the camera.
It’s the way reality shows film their one-on-one interviews.
It’s not Aida’s fault. It’s the producer’s idea.
Doodler, maybe it was the producer’s idea. If so, he/she came up with it because he/she knew Aida was so awkward and awful to watch on camera that they had to do SOMETHING. So they tried a stupid off-camera angle, and it’s backfiring even more.
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ask aida why so much plastic surgery.
I have to say, Aida was hard to watch WITH Noah, and by the time I was able to watch the two of them, he’s gone. Now, I can’t watch her at all. You know, I wish FN would consider just getting some good cooks without the over the top personalities. I watch because I want recipes, and not these over-worked personalities. It’s like they become characatures of themselves. I see what they are cooking, then go to the website if I want the recipe and they annoy me. But hey, has anybody caught Everyday Food on PBS? Five cooks and five recipes in 25 minutes? I love it! They are pleasant, consise, not over-smiling, and no dab blame family members! The only criticism I have is that it doesn’t last long enough. If it did, I wouldn’t even watch FN anymore.
Yikes, has she had some work done? She looks completely different, and I don’t think it’s just makeup. She doesn’t look better, just different.
Ugh. She’s so mindless. Just another shallow bitch paying off her implants.
Great question. I’m watching an episode now, and I’m surprised she’s still on the air. She is not entertaining and adds no information that is valuable unless you are extremely new to cooking.
I can’t believe the petty comments on this blog. I watch for the cooking and recipes and yes, chefs can have annoying habits but then, DON’T WATCH THEM. I’m sure all of us have faults and aspects of our looks that aren’t perfect. Having said that, though, I don’t like the new way of filming Ask Aida. I came here just because the looking away from the camera was bothering me – but I’ll just stop watching if it doesn’t correct itself.
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why are her lips so fat?
Ugh. What a mess. They’ll give just about anybody their own food show nowadays, won’t they?