Really Annoying Blonde Chef

[Tropicana]

Just saw the re-run and she is just as annoying the second time round...

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....I am only one who thinks so.

"Food Network Star" has only aired two episodes of this current ninth season, but it already feels like I've seen it all before. Watching this season's crop of contestants, one thing is abundantly clear: The Food Network has run out of quality competitors.Here's the problem: "Food Network Star" has been running for nine seasons, and Season 2 winner Guy Fieri is still its biggest success story. Seasons 5, 6, 7 and 8 winners Melissa d'Arabian, Aarti Sequeira, Jeff Mauro and Justin Warner, respectively, all have shows currently on the air to varying degrees of success, but none of them have broken out with multiple hit series quite like Guy.
So here's Food Network's solution: In what seems like an effort to finally strike TV host gold again, the network's casting gurus have scraped the bottom of the reality TV barrel this season, recycling people that can only be described as professional reality TV contestants. And it ain't pretty.
The biggest problem with their recycled casting is Danushka Lysek, a fashion model-turned-private chef with a sour expression, a monotone voice and a truly bad attitude who has barely coasted through the first two challenges. Judges Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis and Alton Brown keep saying her food is flavorful, which is an excuse to save her, but it's become blatantly obvious that she's being kept on for drama's sake.
And they would know a thing or two about what kind of drama Danushka can bring ... because she's brought it on not one, not two, not three, but four other reality TV shows in recent years, including two shows on the Food Network. Danushka appeared on a special models edition of "Fear Factor," Charlie O'Connell's season of "The Bachelor" (she was ousted on the first night), and Food Network's other cooking competition shows "Chopped,"and "24-Hour Restaurant Battle".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maggie-furlong/reality-tv-recycling-food-network-star_b_3424304.html

[Tropicana]

“Her ego wrote checks incredibly fast, but her personality didn’t have the cash.” – She Ain’t Pretty by The Northern Pikes, 1990In a build up to the finale, it’s time for the traditional “Women Tell All” episode of The Bachelor. Twelve women are invited back to dish about each other, the final two, and Charlie of course. But mostly each other it seems. By the way, what was little Stacy R. from last season’s Apprentice doing in the audience?

The women are seated in a circle facing Chris Harrison – I like this new setup quite a bit. It’s more conversational, and to be honest, more confrontational as you’ll soon see. Kimberly and Sarah W. are waiting backstage.

First up is Danushka, and we’re treated to a shot of her rose ceremony episode with Krisily. (Krisily: “So I did a body shot – that doesn’t make me a EDIT”. Danushka: “No, it makes you a slut.”) Chris calls this one of the “most memorable Bachelor lines ever”.

Geitan is also among the group, and Danushka says that she wasn’t pleased that she was allowed to come back. Geitan says that she only returned to set the record straight. Is it me, or did it appear that Geitan might have had some work done on her face? Botox or collagen, anyone?

Back to Danushka; Chris asks her about the sunglasses. She replies that they all got “bum-rushed at the EDIT crack of dawn” and when you wake up with lights and cameras in your face, sunglasses are the only option. She says that once she noticed that the other girls didn’t like the shades, she decided to wear them all the time. This woman is great – she’s undoubtedly EDITy, but doesn’t even attempt to hide it.

http://www.realityshack.com/archives/1111

[Suesumba]

could she cook? i so got turned off all those cupcake, pretzel, bagel, chicken flank steak cooking shows

[Pepper]

She made a second appearance on Foodnetwork on this season's 'The Next FoodNetwork Star'.

Seems like she can cook, based on judges comments. But she is annoying, but so are a lot of those egotistical chefs that air on FN.

[Tropicana]

She got booted off after 2 rounds....she did not have enough seasoning in either of the dishes she prepared.

She kept saying...I want to prove that in addition to being beautiful I am a good chef and I am more than a pretty face.

[Suesumba]

She kept saying...I want to prove that in addition to being beautiful I am a good chef and I am more than a pretty face.

o puleeze??? - she really carried on like this?
i notice that people who carry on like that usually are none of the things they claim to be. but seeing as most young women don't know how to cook, she'd probably be the cat's meow as a *good wife*

[Tropicana]

o puleeze??? - she really carried on like this?

Yup. She sure did.

i notice that people who carry on like that usually are none of the things they claim to be. but seeing as most young women don't know how to cook, she'd probably be the cat's meow as a *good wife*

She was not open to feedback either about her lack of seasoning.

[Emperah]

seasoning tuh most a dem seasoning is salt and pepper

[Tropicana]

I think you are on to something. Yes their specific concern was that she did not use enough salt.

Now a friend of mine who is a doctor said that some chefs use way too much salt because:

- they smoke and it has ruined their palette
- they are not creative enough to use other spices effectively

Maybe our blonde chef is not the one at fault here after all. On Chopped they often complain that the food doesn't have enough salt.

[Pepper]

o puleeze??? - she really carried on like this?

Yeah she did. She is a model turned private chef.
When she was on The Next FoodNetwork Star, they asked her something about one of her dishes, she said well if they don't like it I will just take off my top.....

[Suesumba]

i googled her so i could be properly mortified, but all i got was grape stomping

[Suesumba]

seasoning tuh most a dem seasoning is salt and pepper

i continue to pray that our savious jesus xrist will cure you of your narrow view of the world

[Tropicana]

Yeah she did. She is a model turned private chef.
When she was on The Next FoodNetwork Star, they asked her something about one of her dishes, she said well if they don't like it I will just take off my top.....

[Tropicana]

Here are her videos:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/danushka-...deo/index.htmlhttp://www.foodnetwork.com/danushka-...deo/index.html

[Tropicana]

More:

“I think I’m failing in the ‘food authority’ category.”Let’s be honest, when you’re dropping that kind of self-assessment on Episode 3 of Food Network Star, the only dish on the menu is toast. And yes, you are that toast.
Thus, we bid an overdue goodbye to sour, monotone, Danushka, a former model hungry for fame, but not for any burger bigger than a slider. A woman whose proud ennui during a challenge that emulated Food Network’s dizzyingly difficult Chopped had guest judge Alex Guarnaschelli needing to take a moment to compose herself. A gal who repeatedly insisted that her biggest challenge was getting her personality across, while failing to realize said personality was about as pleasant as a pie-crust made of tin foil (and as uncreative as her use of dragon fruit as the bowl of a reimagined lettuce cup).
Danuska’s exit was an obvious one, but the week’s dual challenges continued to separate contenders from pretenders.
The first task was using an unusual ingredient to create a dish — then present it with authority (even if the contestant wasn’t familiar with his or her item). Damaris scored a win in her group after Bobby went bonkers for her skillet cabbage with mango pickle, while Viet served up a side of sour grapes by complaining that the wacky southern gal got the easiest ingredient. Rodney triumphed in the other showdown using bitter melon seeds and gin (!) to top off a colorful salad. The winning duo received immediate immunity and got to sit at the judges’ table while their eight rivals went on to the next challenge — which played out like an episode of Chopped: Two heats of four chefs each, whipping dishes in 30 minutes built around four inscrutable ingredients.
Nicki and Chad won their respective cook-offs: Nicki via a chicken and broccoli spring roll, Chad with a peanut waffle and fried hot dog. (Side note: Anyone else think Nicki still needs to deliver her message with a greater air of authority?)
I came away from the episode with three revelations:
* Viet may be the best chef in the bunch, but even his confessionals are coming across as stilted — and he might be running out of time to put the “Star” at the end of “Food Network.”
* Damaris was definitely a more discerning and believable judge than Rodney, who worked way too hard to be nice, and not hard enough at looking like someone who might be sitting on one of those judging panels in a couple years’ time.
* Disconcerting as it was to hear the judges get excited by Chris’ admission that he’s a recovering drug addict and alcoholic, they were right that his frankness about being saved by food gives him a point of entry with audiences. The challenge for the food-truck operator will be tapping into the spirit of culinary rebirth without feeling like he’s selling his soul or using his past pain in a gimmicky way. (Side note: I’m not sure I bought his story about falling in love with a dried fish rub in fourth grade, either.)
My best guess on the next four eliminations: Lovely (getting the “took slick” critique every week); Nicki (doesn’t seem committed quite enough to her “semi-vegitarian P.O.V.); Rodney (fun, but does the pie man have enough true expertise?); and Russell (his “seven sins” idea feels too much like shtick, and not enough like an authentic way of cooking).
That would make for a final five of Stacey, Viet, Damaris, Chad and Chris. Does that prediction sound realistic to you, or do you see it another way? Sound off in the comments on all that, and bid your fond “good riddance!” to Danushka

http://tvline.com/2013/06/17/food-network-star-recap-season-9-chopped-challenge/