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Rachael Ray Denies Having Throat Cancer Scare | Rachael Ray

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Rachael Ray Denies Having Throat Cancer Scare

Originally posted 10/03/2008 03:40PM

Rachael Ray is shooting down reports that she had a throat cancer scare and is about to be silenced for two months by surgery.

The bubbly Emmy winning talk show host is having surgery – but it's not as serious as reports suggest, according to her rep.

"Rachael is the picture of health. She is having very minor surgery to remove a benign cyst on her vocal cord," says Charlie Dougiello, a spokesman for Ray. "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."

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Ellen DeGeneres, Tyra Banks Win Daytime Emmys | Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres, Tyra Banks Win Daytime Emmys

Originally posted 06/21/2008 01:00AM

Ellen DeGeneres did it again – claiming the title of outstanding talk-show host, for the fourth year in a row – at Friday night's 35th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, where a jubilant Tyra Banks and Rachael Ray also ended up in the winner's circle.

"I never take this for granted," said DeGeneres, clutching her shiny statuette. "I know every single year people joke about it." Besides acknowledging her show staff and partner Portia de Rossi, DeGeneres also thanked her show's fans, "amazing, amazing people."

In something of a surprise, however, instead of Ellen's winning a fifth consecutive Emmy as best talk show (entertainment), the accolade went to Rachael Ray. "Holy cat. That is exciting," said the cooking host. "I really can't breathe."

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Rachael Ray Cooks Up Rock 'n' Roll Party in Austin | Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray Cooks Up Rock 'n' Roll Party in Austin

Originally posted 03/17/2008 02:05PM

Rachael Ray cooked up a rock 'n' roll bash in Austin, Texas – drawing revelers at the annual South by Southwest music festival who were treated to Mexican food and a performance by her husband's band. Called The Feedback Showcase, Ray's Saturday night party at Beauty Bar was all about music, fun and, of course, food.

"We both love Austin so much and we just wanted to come visit the city again and have some fun," Ray told PEOPLE about her trip with hubby John Cusimano.

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Rachael Ray: 'I Sat Alone' in the Cafeteria | Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray: 'I Sat Alone' in the Cafeteria

Originally posted 12/07/2007 01:25PM

Rachael Ray welcomes the world into her kitchen every day. But finding eating companions wasn't always so easy. For years, she says, she was a lunchtime pariah.

"I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria," the Rachael Ray Show host told PEOPLE in NYC Thursday, at a party for Food for New York and The Lunchbox Fund. "I was very unpopular in the early grades."

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Couples

Rachael Ray: I 'Desperately' Love My Husband

Originally posted 11/16/2007 11:30AM


Rachael Ray briefly got as hot under the collar as her oven Friday, when she said tabloid reports about her marriage "are really killing me."

Ray, 39, talking on her daily TV show, recounted how she once got a phone call after someone had read that she and husband John Cusimano were calling it quits.

"Are you getting a divorce?" Ray said the caller asked, to which she replied, "I hope not, because John's mixing [me] a heckuva Margarita in the kitchen."

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Rachael Ray Hits Back at Rocky Marriage Rumors | Rachael Ray

Couples

Rachael Ray Hits Back at Rocky Marriage Rumors

Originally posted 11/15/2007 12:40PM

Rachael Ray is hitting back at tabloid rumors that her marriage is on the rocks.

During a taping of her talk show Monday, the normally bubbly cook said that constant reports about the state of her marriage to John Cusimano are starting to upset her, an observer tells PEOPLE.

"Everybody gossips ... but this stuff is hurting people's feelings who are in our families and friends of ours," Ray told the audience on the show, set to air Friday. "They worry about us."

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Rachael Ray

Originally posted 10/12/2007 03:00PM

Mayonnaise is the only ingredient she won't use because it creeps her out

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Bourdain Attacks Rachael Ray's Dunkin' Donuts Ads | Anthony Bourdain, Rachael Ray

Chef Anthony Bourdain Attacks Rachael Ray's Dunkin' Donuts Ads

Originally posted 10/11/2007 12:00PM

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is turning up the heat on Rachael Ray – calling her out for endorsing Dunkin' Donuts, the New York Post reports.

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Rachael Ray Cooking Up Hamptons House Deal | Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray Cooking Up Hamptons House Deal

Originally posted 08/17/2007 10:00AM

Rachael Ray has a real-estate deal cooking in the Hamptons.

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Rachael Ray: All The Dish! | Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray: All The Dish!

Originally posted 05/03/2007 12:00PM

For a woman who earns about $10 million a year whipping up everything from chicken and honey-buttered waffles to sea-bass puttanesca, Rachael Ray is the first to admit that her skills in the kitchen are handily outmatched in her own house. "My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air," she says, seated at her dining room table – and wearing blue cotton pajamas, her preferred at-home attire – while her husband, entertainment lawyer John Cusimano, sits nearby in their modest Manhattan apartment. "I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!"

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