Top Earning Celebrity Chefs

Who's your favorite kitchen cook? Wolfgang? Paula? Rachael? Forbes just came out with the list of the top earning celeb chefs and they are making bank! It pays to make some good dishes in the kitchen apparently, even the lowest earning chef is still making a lot of money!

1. Rachael Ray - $18 million
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

Hollywood Lookalikes: Rachael Ray and Katharine McPhee

Celebrity chef Rachael Ray and American Idol alum Katharine McPhee share the same girl-next-door good looks, with friendly smiles and matching brown eyes.

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Sharon Stone angers Chinese media, Rachael Ray ad upsets Arabs

Sharon Stone's films may be boycotted in China following comments she made last week at the Festival de Cannes regarding China's recent natural disaster that killed more than 65,000 people and left 5 million homeless.

"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else," Stone said in a red-carpet interview with Cable Entertainment News of Hong Kong. "And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?"

Stone was a guest last year at the Shanghai International Film Festival, but her recent remarks angered Chinese media.

Ng See-Yuen, the founder of one of China's biggest urban cinema chains, called Stone's comments "inappropriate" and said his company would boycott all of the actress' films.

Stone has several films coming out this year.

However, the Chinese media did not latch onto another remark Stone made during the French film festival. She said she cried when she received a letter from the Tibetan Foundation asking her to help victims of the natural disaster.

"Sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service, even to people who aren't nice to you. That's a big lesson for me," Stone said.

But Stone isn't the only celebrity who's made an international relations faux pas recently.

According to The Boston Globe, Dunkin' Donuts has decided to pull a TV commercial featuring Rachael Ray wearing what looks like a keffiyeh.

Fox News commentator and conservative columnist Michelle Malkin was the first to notice Ray's garb. She wrote on her blog:

"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."

Although Dunkin' Donuts initially ignored the complaints and rumors of a boycott, they eventually chose to pull the ad.

"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," the chain wrote in a statement via The Globe. "Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial."

Rachael Ray Doesn't Like Dunkin?

Dunkin' Donuts may be in trouble. Turns out, their new spokesperson may not even like their coffee. A 'source' told New York magazine that :

“A friend of mine was on set last week as Rachael Ray filmed her latest Dunkin’ Donuts commercial. According to her, Rachael stormed onto the set and snapped at everyone....I am also told she took one sip of her Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, yelled ‘What is this shit? Get me MY coffee,’ and would not continue until she was given ‘her’ coffee — i.e., Starbucks.”

Whoa! She seems pretty scary, but you never know!

Rachael Ray's Wax Figure

Rachael Ray Meets "Rachael Ray"

at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum

Seriously? Okay first of all the wax looks a lot more slim and more flawless. I'm annoyed by Rachael Ray's voice so thank gos that wax figure can't speak! If only she can cook without saying anything or say a sentence with a 5 second hiatus after another.

Rachael Ray Is A Racist Fatso

Perky talk show host Rachael Ray made disparaging racial remarks about the woman who gave Ray her big shot at daytime TV -- none other than Oprah Winfrey, according to TMZ sources. It's a shocking account of a dinner that occurred during the period that the show was being sold.

Rewind to December 3, 2005. Ray was at the Century City Shopping Mall in Los Angeles for a book signing. Reps from King World, the production company that was syndicating the show, were shooting the event for its sales presentation.

At around 7:00 PM, Ray, along with seven others, went to Houston's Restaurant in the mall. They sat in a booth in the far right rear of the restaurant. Ray ordered fish and complained to the table it was dry. She was also drinking red wine and lots of it -- one source says a minimum of four big glasses.

We're told Ray became "extremely loud and aggressive," and began dissing Oprah. Sources say she told the group about a portrait of Oprah that sits in the lobby of Harpo Productions in Chicago. It's from the movie "Beloved" and shows Winfrey's back, enhanced with scars. She's also wearing a skirt from the slavery era.

Back at the table, sources say Ray launched into attack mode: "Why is she wearing slave drag? She obviously has problems being black."

But Oprah wasn't Ray's only target. Sources say she told the group how much she liked Jennifer Aniston." Angelina is a "skanky, backdoor c**t." and then called Brad Pitt a "pussy boy." But her harshest comments were reserved for Angelina Jolie, calling her "a skanky, backdoor c**t."

TMZ contacted the Director of Publicity for Rachael Ray, Charlie Dougiello, who said, "Rachael did attend the dinner referenced and enjoyed wine and good conversation with friends and colleagues. She denies making any of the comments referenced. In fact, there are several words that are attributed to Rachael that she has never uttered in her life."

Dougiello added, "Neither in public nor in private has Rachael made a disparaging or cruel remark about her friend and mentor, Oprah, nor a celebrity couple she has never even met."

Dougiello also said, "There were several associates of Rachael's at that table who, unprompted, agreed that Rachael never made any of the comments she is being accused of making... and it seems very convenient that these accusations are being levied at a time when Rachael's success has focused the public eye on her."