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!

[Image via WENN.]

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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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There's a ranking for everything these days!

Forbes just came out with a list of the ten top-earning celebrity chefs.

In the #1 spot is Oprah fave Rachael Ray, who pulls in about $18 million a year.

It pays to be in with the big O!

Here's the rest of the list. The names will be very familiar to all you Food Network junkies:

2. Wolfgang Puck - $16 million
3. Gordon Ramsay- $7.5 million
4. Nobuyuki Matsuhisa - $5 million
5. Alain Ducasse - $5 million
6. Paula Deen - $4.5 million
7. Mario Batali - $3 million
8. Tom Colicchio - $2 million
9. Bobby Flay - $1.5 million
10. Anthony Bourdain - $1.5 million

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It takes a bitch to know a bitch!

Oprah protegee Rachael Ray has come out with a line of all-natural dog food.

We're overlooking her annoying-ness to give her props cuz the dog food proceeds are going to animal shelter charities.

In Rachael's case, that saying "dogs and their owners look alike" is so true!

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What's in a scarf????

Well, Rachel Ray wore a scarf in a Dunkin' Donuts commercial that threw the conservatives into a tizzy, according to reports.

Ray wore a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men (see photo above).

Fox News talking head and columnist Michelle Malkin explained, "The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant and not-so-ignorant fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons."

Dunkin' Donuts at first dismissed the complaints, claiming the black-and-white wrap was not a keffiyeh.

But, the right-wing firestorm continued on the internets and by yesterday, Dunkin' Donuts decided it was easier to yank the ad.

Dunkin' Donuts said in a statement, "In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial."

What do U think of the controversy?

RaRay's stylist is getting no bonus this Christmas!

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Rosie O'Donnell is taking over the Rachael Ray show tomorrow, Friday.

The entire episode is dedicated to our second favorite lesbian talk show host (after Ellen).

And, in true Rosie fashion, there's a big musical number!

Click here to check out a preview of the daytime divas' song and dance routine!

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