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 ├óΓé¼┼ôRachael 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.├óΓé¼┬¥
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.├óΓé¼┬¥
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.
[Image via WENN.]