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First Look: Worst Cooks In America Promo Video
Published on: December 10, 2009 – 2:54 pm by Jillian Madison 
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The Food Network’s newest reality competition, Worst Cooks In America, premieres on January 3rd at 10 pm. Although it plays out like the bastard lovechild of Next Food Network Star and Chopped, I must admit the clip makes the show look pretty darn good (in a bad sort of way):
My favorite parts from the video clip:
1) Anne Burrell screaming, “YOU ARE GIVING UP!” while perched high atop that ghetto makeshift watchtower.
2) The horrified looks on the faces of the food critics when they found out a bunch of (gasp!) home cooks prepared the meal they just ate. The horror!
3) The boiled chicken! Whyyyyyy, God, whyyyyyy!
And what about that stupid elimination slogan? “Please turn in your apron?” Hi, Food Network, you have a collect call from “UNCREATIVE.” Will you accept the charges?
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My god this looks to good for words .
This just proves that people are really stupid. You’ve been eating all your life and have never lifted a finger to make anything. READ A COOKBOOK!!!
OMG this is amazing, particularly the line about Anne Burrell atop the ghetto watchtower. What is is about Food Network that manages to snuff out whatever integrity a person once had in exchange for a meager amount of kinda-like-fame? Awesome.
i think they should put their own “stars” on this show:
ray-ray, sandra lee, maybe guy fieri if he wears those douchebag glasses on the back of his head one more time.
these are the real worst cooks in america!
That would be an awesome show. I think Lee would be the worst cook starting off for sure!!
Please Pass the soap for my mouth and the bleach for my eyes
Poor Jeffery Steingarten…he looks like his culinary viewpoint has just been shattered…
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Just watching the preview video gives me the ‘oh, no, not more of Bob Doucheman’s stupid, idiotic competitions’. I am really at a loss for words. This is the bottom of the barrel of crap, shit shows. Despite the fact that I am an avid FNH poster, I don’t think I would watch that show even for Jillian and all. I lived through NFNS, then Mommy D’earest. But, no. I can’t. Ugh. Disgusting.
Forget ‘turn in your apron’…should be ‘put your neck in this noose’…
Watch this show or have a root canal? Tough choice? Nah. I’ll take the root canal.
Root canal performed by going thru the bottom of my foot!
And besides, Aunt(hic)(burrffpf)Sandy is the worse cook, so who in the hell are they looking for anyway?
I’m with you Byrdie! Well maybe RR could take runner up for worst cook ever!
“….The horrified looks on the faces of the food critics when they found out a bunch of (gasp!) home cooks prepared the meal they just ate. The horror!”
Yeah, like they weren’t in on it. What, did FN just tell ‘ol Jeffery to show up, dressed for TV on x day, and not explain it to him? And I imagine he knows what his employer is planning, uh, we all have known about this for quite awhile.
Reality Schmeeality. What a load of crap.
Like I said, more of Bob and his uncreative ideas. Set up already as to who will be the ‘winner’ like Mommy D. Crock of shit.
Like the chick asked ” Why Are You Doing This To Me? “. Why? Why?
Not another show where Chef Fat Alex is judging.Please say no. I’ve had enough of this evil little bushpig.
I just find it impossible to believe someone could be so stupid as to try to boil a whole chicken and then try to put a piece of cheese on it. Most of these people are probably just phony fakes who are desperate to get on television.
Like Sophia Gettys.
Sophia Gettys who is all over YouTube talking about herself, and all the different television casting calls she’s been going on. And suddenly she just landed on a show about being a horrible cook?
Bullshit. She went on a casting call, probably one of hundreds, and happened to get picked by the idiots at Food Network.
This whole show reeks of fake to me.
“Bullshit. She went on a casting call, probably one of hundreds, and happened to get picked by the idiots at Food Network.
This whole show reeks of fake to me.”
I could not have said that any better.
Ben is 100% correct. This is Sophia Gettys youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/SophiaGettys
On it, she writes:
School’s almost over, Audition for Birth Control PSA, Staging at FRUITION on Monday and I fell off the wagon a few times, but got right back on! It’s hard to get back on! lol
The Worst Cooks website on the foodnetwork.com has our audition videos up! Check them out!
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So basically, she’s auditioned for a birth control PSA, fruition fruit drink, Worst Cooks In America, and who knows what else!
Hey all!
Great to see that all of you checked out the show promo and THANKS YOU! for the youtube shout out!:) It’s my video diary documenting my weight loss journey.
I just wanted to point out, that I STAGED (I assume as foodies you know what that means?) at Fruition. It’s not a fruit drink, it’s actually one of Denver’s top restaurants. I worked there to continue my culinary education, and had a blast! There is nothing fake about the show, it was an amazing expirience and I am currently pursuing it as a career.
I love that I’m an actress! haha it’s Denver people, not Hollywood.
Love this site!
Happy Holidays
XOXO
Sophia
Should I know who Sophia Gettys is? I feel like I missed something.
Pursuing what as a career…leapfrogging to and from reality shows or cooking?
How stupid for FN to pick her…or anyone like her! If they wanted to make it semi-real, they should of picked anonymous people off the street that said they didn’t know how to cook.
Sophia Gettys is one fake human being.
I have to agree with everyone here.
She is ridiculous. She’s an attention seeker.
I accidentally went onto the channel and there’s good ol’ Sophie promoting herself all up and down youtube.
She starred in a few brief commercials and now considers herself a “true” actress.
Honey, you were in a few shitty television commercials and a few crappy reality TV shows.
You’re hardly a seasoned veteran like you claim.
Yes, you’re a pretty girl and guys may enjoy watching your cute face on the television but baby, you can’t rely on that adorable little face of yours to snag good roles.
A cute face can only take a girl so far. You need talent to land a Hollywood role.
I’m not a fake, but you are right LucienLovesNina4EVER I am not a “true actress” and I am definately not seasoned. I don’t know where I put that, but I will find it and take it down. I appreciate the compliments, and I will do my best to prove myself as a COOK in the future.
Thanks you all for your honesty!
Sophia
Their faces remind me of those Pizza Hut commercials where everyone thinks their food was from some fancy schmancy restaurant and then it was really The Hut the whole time!
Psych!
So, is the purpose of this show to see who learns the most? Or, to see who can tolerate the most humiliation for $25,000? Alex Gwhoooaaaathatsahugeass is a judge, so, I can’t expect these people to have any sort of pride in the progress, if any, that they make.
Yet another great Alex ‘gew-wanna-piece-a-me’ name! Gwhooaaathatsahugeass!!!!! LOL!
That was pretty funny. Why do you think they keep throwing her at us ? Talent pool low ? A FN contract player stooge doing as she’s told ?
Say do you think Bobby Flay’d company produced this ? Seems like he has his freckled pecker in just about everything else.
Full-body shot of Alex G. at 0:59. Yikes!
Wow. She’s a bit, um, asymmetric…
That chicken looks like something in Lileks’ Regrettable Food Gallery.
And that slogan? FN wishes it were Bravo.
Please add the swarmy, arrogant, obnoxious, self-gratifying Ted Allen to the judge’s panel so I can have a full hate-on for this show? I think I actually dislike Ted Allen more than Bobby Flay based on who will make me change the channel quicker.
This is the dumbest premise they have come up with yet.
What next? Something like bumfights? Pick up some sad homeless people, throw them in a cage (sorry, kitchen) with each other with a lot of fire and knives and see who’s left standing?
I will flush this FN turd :(
So do these cooks think they were chosen to be on the show in the first place because they were good? Who would willingly participate in a contest to see who was worst?
Isn’t this show also called The Next Food Network Star?
No, it’s actually called “Semi homemade cooking”.
I like the fact that people are pointing out Alex G-something-or-other is yet again a judge, which made the think that the whole show looks recycled. The all-too-familiar judges, the cackling of Anne Burrell, the bottom-rate competition for a lowly prize. Hell, even the set looks recycled from scraps of Food Network challenges. Jillian said it well, it’s basically NFNS and Chopped ground through a meat grinder…with about the same talent coming out the other end. Food Network never really stops to put any kind of substance or interest behind their shows, they just plow ahead with the same concept that kinda worked (but didn’t) last time.
Mommy!
gotta chime in and agree with most of ya’ll: this is indeed the lamest of the lame! what has gotten so difficult about putting on your FOOD network shows that feature good cooks making, oh, i dunno, good recipes???? what a concept! enough already, FN! you are beginning to lose your very intelligent and discriminating audience!!!!
I’m gonna reserve judgement until I view the show.
Ina Garten tells you to boil whole chickens all the time. She says you should boil THREE of them, for hours, and then throw them away and keep the water!
I suppose I should point out that technically she’s making chicken stock, but it’s not like the process is unknown to chefs.
Adding tomato sauce and cheese is another story.
The tagline for this show should be something like this:
“For those of you who didn’t make it onto ‘Next Food Network Star’, ‘Chopped’, or any of our other many competition shows, we present…
‘The Worst Cooks in America’
Where the leftovers go to compete.”
I’d like them to do a follow up show called Worst Cook On The Food Network’. Everyone on FN has to compete. true at first glance seems like a shoe in for Sandra Lee but you never know. Melissa might give her a run for her money.
Act 24.Part 40.The Kabuki Turd Circus continues it’s crapquest.
Who vomitted on the chicken?
This is ridiculous. I can’t even watch the whole promo.
And people wonder why the world thinks the US is a big joke.
Yeah, it’s bad, but having seen Japanese and German TV, I have to say this isn’t the worse/most bizarre TV I have viewed. I will watch one episode.
Clearly people were just coming up with their worst/most disgusting dishes to get on the show. Who boils a whole chicken? No one is that stupid. And then melting cheese on it it looks like? I’m sure most of the contestants can cook/aren’t as bad as they are portraying.
It’s all fake. When was the last time anything in “reality TV” was real?
What I don’t understand is why these home cooks can win $25,000 while the real chefs on Chopped win only $10,000. Seems unfair.
The reactions of Jeffrey Steingarten, et al are totally fake.
I think it’s funny that they are trying to find the “worst” cooks in America.. I mean how hard is it to mess food up in the kitchen?? Not to mention I once brushed shoulders with good ol’ Annie in NYC once … yea not impressed and her hair really is that starched …
They really should have Stevie Famulari on this show.
Is there anyone on that show who’s ass is not the size of a Buick? Guarnaschelli looks like she’s got her own zipcode.
I realize this is (likely) the entire reason for posting this, but I seriously cannot get far enough past the “Cheese factor” of this promo to think logically about this program! SHEESH, FN; really???
This show sums up the Food Network’s entire program content – Let’s get a bunch of hacks together and give them a cooking show. Add just enough competency into the mix and voila, we’ve got an audience.
After all, viewers will tune in to see people even more inept than themselves. ie) America’s Funniest Home Videos, Worst Driver, Worst Handyman, Botched Surgeries, etc.
You also got to love that lady who looks like Amy Winehouse. LOL!
I thought she was a dead ringer for Melissa Joan Hart myself. :)