Rachael Ray's daytime talk show has been renewed.

Through the 2011-12 season!!!!

Does the world really need this?!

The show, which inexplicably won an Emmy, has been cleared in almost 60% of the country to appear through its sixth season.

"Viewers really responded to our initial idea to expand Rachael beyond the kitchen and turn it into a hit daytime show," said Terry Wood, president of programming for CBS.

These viewers need to watch Oprah and Ellen and read Perez.

Seriously, even watching John & Kate Plus 8 is better!

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Rachel Ray showed up to the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance 35th Anniversary in New York Thursday night looking a little Botoxed in the face!

She's got a face only a plastic surgeon could love!

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Kate Gosselin of Jon and Kate Plus 8 sat down with Rachael Ray on Wednesday afternoon for an interview set to air on The Rachael Ray Show next Tuesday, and it seems to be a real snoozer!

The mother-of-eight approached the topic of the alleged affair of her husband Jon Gosselin with 23-year-old school teacher Deanna Hummel with discretion and barely revealed anything at all!

Said Gosselin:

It's one of those things that we're just handling privately… We're just taking it one step at a time and I'm trying to walk through it. The focus remains on our kids. It has always been there and will continue to be there. One day at a time, like we've always done. One hour at a time, one minute at a time, and my life's been like that. It's definitely another learning experience… I look at life through the eyes of my kinds in that i've always said life experiences… I feel like you can learn something from every situation and I am absolutely learning a lot from this… I do not care how you see me. Call me crazy, but it's out there because I am not perfect and I will never boast that I'm perfect. Everyone makes mistakes.

Protecting the fam and the kids, we get it, we get it.

We'd really rather see a catfight, though!

Meow!

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It's on!!!!

Rachael Ray is going to SXSW again.

Last year, at her showcase she had…..? Well, she had a bunch of nobodies perform.

Oh, wait! We think her husband's band performed! Real A-list!

Perezzzz, on the other hand, has everybody good perform at his party.

And, this year, it's going to be even better!!!!!!!

Wheras Ray has a thoroughly unimpressive roster, P-Nasty has THE hottest lineup of the week!

We'll be revealing the acts in the days leading up to our big extravaganza. It's going to be quite the international affair!!!!

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Hey Rachel Ray!

Leave the king/queen making to the one and only Oprah Winfrey!

The insanely annoying chef is producing a new show for the Food Network starring a Latina actress/cookbook author named Daisy Martinez.

Viva Daisy premieres on Saturday for a six-week run.

The show will be the net's second show dedicated to Latin cooking.

The new show will be the first from Ray's production company, Watch Entertainment, that doesn't feature Ray.

We bet she'll make some 'surprise' appearance that will be laced with nauseating acronyms.

EVOO! Gag us!

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It was reported a few months back that Rachael Ray has throat cancer and would need to get surgery soon. Her rep had orignally said, "Rachael is the picture of health. She is having very minor surgery to remove a benign cyst on her vocal cord. It's a common in-and-out procedure that she will have in early December and it will not adversely effect any of her daytime show or Food Network tapings."

Well, things have turned for the better for the TV personality.

Turns out she might not be needing surgery after all!

A rep for Ray says, "During the course of normal pre-op care, Rachael started an intensive new vocal therapy and it is now the opinion of her doctor that surgery may not be necessary. Rachael is very grateful that it won't be a silent Christmas and thanks everyone for their prayers and well wishes."

Rachael had even said last month that she'd most likely have to carry around a pen and paper to communicate with her hubby after surgery.

We're glad she won't need surgery, but kind of sad we'll still have to listen to her speak.

We bet her husband feels the same way!

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Rachael Ray will soon have a new TV show out. But, thankfully for everyone, she won't be starring in it!

Instead, Rachael and her hubby's production company, Watch Entertainment, will be producing Viva Daisy!, which will be a daytime cooking show hosted by Daisy Martinez of PBS's Daisy Cooks!

The Food Network has already ordered six episodes, with a full season likely if it doesn't bomb.

Ray's husband, who's president of Watch Ent. says that “Rachael is only one person and there are only so many episodes of TV she can make a year, so we thought a much more efficient way of doing things would be by producing other talent.”

As for Rachael, she says, "I called [Food Network President] Brooke Johnson and we had a nice meeting with Bob Tuschman and some of the peeps over there, and we brought Daisy with us and she just lit up the room. What I love about Daisy is her accessibility factor; if you don't have a Latin-American heritage, it can be very foreign to an American audience. I think she makes it fun and easy.”

And what we love about Daisy is that she isn't Rachael Ray!

The show will premiere on January 10th and will feature Daisy making Latin-inspired dishes.

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Rachel Ray likes it in the buns!!!

If throat cancer or the scarf controversy can't shut her up, maybe a fat slab of meat between two buns can finally silence Rachel Ray?

What we mean is that the TV Chef will be so stunned by a tasty burger that she will be speechless with awe.

Or so we desperately hope.

As part of the first ever New York City Wine & Food Festival tomorrow, Friday, Miss Ray is hosting the Burger Bash, where backyard grillers to gourmet chefs will be competing for the city's best burger.

In addition to the Bash, the self-proclaimed "burger freak" revealed plans to open her own burger joint:

"I'm going for a '60s back-in-the-day Rat Pack-y kind of hangout, and I want the bar to be really central [and] the burgers to become a very social thing. I want people to come to the bar to see beautiful proper martinis being made and to enjoy some sliders while they're doing business or sit in the dining room and have fine dining in ground form."

Great.

Another overpriced novelty restaurant!

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If you've heard the rumors that Rachael Ray has throat cancer and she's going silent for 2 months, push them aside.

Here's what her rep has to say about what's really going on in the Oprah fave's life: "Rachael is the picture of health. She is having very minor surgery to remove a benign cyst on her vocal cord. It's a common in-and-out procedure that she will have in early December and it will not adversely effect any of her daytime show or Food Network tapings."

And there you have it.

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