Next Food Network Star-Bon Appetite

How hard is it to describe a dish that you are eating? Apparently very hard as Cat Cora gives the would be chef stars their next challenge, a basket with six ingredients after which they will have to give a TV presentation describing the dish. The twist, they will have to describe someone else's dish. This seems to have thrown the chefs for a loop. How hard is it to describe food? Aaron eats the food in total silence for at least 30 of the 90 seconds that he has to describe the dish. All you could hear was crunch, crunch, um, um, um. I thought Lisa did well but Jenn was terrible as she kept saying that she doesn't usually eat this kind of food and couldn't tell the linguine noodle from a udon noodle. Adam stuffed so much food in his mouth he could talk without spitting out chunks of chewed food, nice! Kelsey kept saying this food looks amazing. How do you taste amazing? Shane wins this challenge as the one being the most calm when giving his critique. The next challenge was for Bon Appetite, taking a recipe that usually takes hours to make and reinvent it to make it accessible to the viewing audience. The chefs need to take that receipe from grocery bag to cooking within 45 minutes. Beef Wellington, Coq Au Vin, and Turducken. What in the world is turducken? Just the name alone sounds horrifying. It turns out that turducken is turkey stuffed with chicken stuffed with duck. One word, why? Unfortunately, Jen and Lisa get the turducken, with Kelsey and Shane on Beef Wellington, and Adam and Aaron with the Coq Au Vin. First up are the two A's, and Adam wants to cook bone in chicken breast which Aaron thinks will take too long to cook. I'm wondering why Aaron just doesn't pipe up and say that? Turns out the chicken wasn't cooking and Adam had to cook the boneless breast, thanks to Aaron. Their dishes were just sloppy with the pasta noodles falling over the bowl which lead to Judge Susie asking if that was done on purpose. Next up were Lisa and Jenn furiously cooking until Jenn takes a bottle of apple cider and tries to pry the cap off by banging it against the stove shattering the bottle all over the acorn squash. Lisa doesn't skip a beat and tells her to throw all the squash away. Good girl, no glass shards in the food please! They had to 86 the squash and the gravy which led to the judges declaring their dish very dry. Kelsy and Shane had the easiest dish to prepare, Beef Wellington which was pronounced the winner by Bon Appetite. In the end, Jenn had to be eliminated. She was just not your TV material and it seemed that every episode there was a major crisis for her. So it's back to her family, they need you in their kitchen.-Single D

Hell's Kitchen-Prequel to the Finale

Well, it's down to the final two. Who would have thought Petrozza would have lasted this long. I thought Ramsay's perception of Petrozza's porkulant behavior in the kitchen would had him ousted long ago. When they see their images larger than life, Christina gushes that she looks angelic. Angelic? Do angels smoke? What's with chef's and smoking? Both Petrozza and Christina have to create their menus and designs for their restaurant. Here we see Christina diligently working on her menu and design while Petrozza heads for his bed for a nap like a slumbering bear. When they meet with the contractor, Petrozza keeps gushing about flowers, lots and lots of flowers. I almost expected him to start skipping. Christina says simple and elegant and definitely has a clear vision or so it seems. By the sound of it, both are total opposites. Chef tells them that they are flying to New York to see his London NY restaurant, once there he tells them that he is giving both of them a trip to Dubai as a gift. Christina's like yeah!, where's Dubai? Once inside London NY, it's no time to relax for they both have to cook their signature dish for the one last challenge. Christina's like, I've got this in the bag, 10 challenges won! Careful the bragging, you haven't won yet! Petrozza cooks his fillet Mignon while Christina cooks a NY strip steak. I would have cooked Chilean Sea Bass or something other than red meat so the two dishes could be different. Once the dishes are finished, Chef brings in all his executive chef from around the world, how many restaurants does he own? I think the challenge would have been better if the chefs didn't know who cooked what and didn't listen to what the other chefs were saying as well. Petrozza squeaks by with one vote and wins the challenge to have first pick of the returning chefs to help them cook in the finale. But before that, Chef introduces Whoopi Goldberg, who did nothing and said nothing. I didn't understand why she was there, because she loves the show and wants to show her support? Maybe she was hoping to taste their signature dishes and get some free food? Well back to the business of the challenge, Petrozza ends up with Bobby and Ben and Christina with Corey and Louross. The cliffhanger was who gets Matt and Jen, who by the way is looking bitter and mean. By the previews, it looks like Jen is on Petrozza's team with Matt on Christina's. Back in LA, Christina is in a snit because her walls are striped. I didn't want stripes she says, cut to the replay when she picks out the striped wall paper. Gotta love the rewind. Best choice to win it, Christina, but at this point it could be anyone's executive chef hat.-Single D

Shot at Love-Tila Tequila-Who Did She Chose This Time?

Finally, believe me the finale couldn't have come sooner. The last and final lame challenge was to get the red heart out of a block of ice and to help Kristi and Bo were two of their best buds. Immediately Kristi strips down to her short shorts and starts rubbing her ample booty on it. That girl's got alot of junk in the trunk (do they even say that any more?). If they have to use their body parts to heat up the ice we might be here all night, so Tila lets them have items that you would use to make margaritas with. Hey, just give me a margarita and forget the ice. Bo of course takes the shaker and makes quick time of getting the heart out and winning alone time with Tila. Their reward, Bo and company get to spend time with Tila in her lounge upstairs, but their private party is crashed in on by Kristi and company. Later each gets a special date with Tila, Bo's being a date in a room made to look like a sports bar. Is that romantic? There Bo and Tila play games and Bo tells Tila over wieners and fooze ball that he loves her. Meanwhile, Kristi gets the really romantic date with Tila in a quite room by the fireplace. Humm, let me guess who she likes better? Kristi tries to tell Tila that she's scared as she has never had a serious relationship with a woman before. Humm, is she hinting at something? Tila doesn't seem to hear between the lines and tells Kristi that she's crazy about her, something she didn't say to Bo. Later both Kristi and Bo are treated to some pampering before the big reveal. Now let's just cut to the chase. Tila sends Bo packing. Sorry Bo, I think she kept you around because of pity, you know that broken jaw thingy. A dejected Bo tears off the hospital band that he had kept on his wrist for luck and throws it away. In limo 2, Kristi is second guessing herself, like do I like women or men? A duh, now's not the time to come to a sexual preference crisis. Kristi is like hoping that Tila won't choose her, too late girl, you're goose is cooked! No easy exit for you. Didn't we all know that Tila would choose a girl this time around? As Kristi walks up to Tila and Tila says would you like my key, Kristi is like omg. Kristi it's just a fake key! She tells Tila, sorry but I'm screwed up, I don't know what I want, perfect timing, tell it on national TV. Why did she even go through the whole thing? I know, it's not like it's CNN, this is MTV, nothing is serious on MTV. So what's happen? Tila rejects Bo who says he truely loves her, wants Kristi to be her gal and Kristi, who doesn't know if she likes her, rejects Tila's offer of happiness and a world full of sleazy orgies and pool parties. A rejected Tila takes her walk of shame, teary eye and weeping, my heart's broken again! Well, you'll find no sympathy here, tell it to MTV, oh yeah, I think Tila 3 is already in the works?-Single D

The Bachelorette-The Exotics

We last left DeAnna crying her eyes out over getting rid of Graham and telling the camera that she was falling in love with him and second guessing herself. Well DeAnna, ya did the right thing, altho you could hardly tell when she's on her exotics with Jeremy. It looked like she was still mourning the loss of Graham when she was in the Grand Bahama Island with Jeremy. I tell ya, their date still looked awkward and tense as they were sitting in paradise, the only fun they had was jet skiing. At dinner tensions are high, as Mr. Shiny face Jeremy professes his love for her, was that why he was so serious? He's too serious in my book. Can he lighten up? If I have to be with somebody they better be good looking and hysterically funny (I wish!). Will someone give that guy a dusting down, his face is way too shiny. They don't need candlelight with his glow! By the way, loved, loved, loved her boy shorts bathing suit. The next day DeAnna meets up with Jason and right off the bat, it looked like they just click immediately, no tense silent moments, no sweaty faces, no serious issues, just plain fun. I thought the kayaking looked hysterical, they reminded me of some Amazing Race teams. I think if they get married they should try out for that. Wasn't that floating dock cool? During lunch it seemed that DeAnna had a twinkle in her eye or was that just brie? Could she be falling for Jason? The next date is with Jesse where they try their horseback riding skills in the water. Do horses know how to swim? The production assistants must have tranquilized those horses for the kissing scene cause on the outtakes, it looked like those horses were just too frisky to be calm for a kiss between them. When DeAnna presents Jesse with the fantasy suite card from Chris, Jesse says, I don't know if I can, till I meet your dad. DeAnna's like are you for real? Just kidding! Calm down girl! I couldn't tell at the Rose Ceremony who she would eliminate, since there is no clear cut person that stands out. Jeremy is too ridged and stiff, Jason comes with a built in family, and Jesse is more of a free spirit. In the end, I'm sure she shocked the viewing fans by eliminating Jeremy, the sure thing, the ticket to the mansion, the would be successful lawyer's wife, say goodbye to Manolo Blahniks, champagne caviar and millionaire dreams. Jeremy's exit did tug at the heart a little (for one split second), who can stand rejection? He tells the limo driver to stop and I thought for a he was going to jump the fence and go back to DeAnna just like in the movies, but that was not the case. I guess paradise with Jeremy didn't seduce DeAnna into falling for him as she tells him on the next segment that after she spent the night with Jason and Jesse, she knew he was not the one. Ouch! Guess they are better lovers that him! The second segment, the Men Tell All, just showed a bitter Jeremy still licking his wounds from rejection and totally solidified my belief that Graham was not that into her. As they showed the clip of Graham departing in the limo, and as he said to the camera that he wanted to fall in love.....which left me thinking the second part of that sentence would have been but it wasn't with DeAnna. Boo on Graham for copping out of answering questions and heaven help the poor woman that will have to put up with that. And as for Jeremy, he's still carrying the torch, I think for him it was all about the winning. I wanted to hear from Sean, but they didn't give him any air time. My choice for DeAnna next week, Jesse, free spirit and all. -Single D-click link below for more pics of the bachelorette!! http://www.fansofrealitytv.com/forums/bachelorette-spoilers-speculation/74511-bachelorette-4-screencaps-only-20.html

Grand Bahama island, sun, sand and three guys. Jeremy's date was a day at the beach. Boring stuff really. Then he was sweating and giggling at dinner and all they showed of the so called fantasy suite was the bed. I must have missed the rest of the suite. Jason's date was fun to watch. Made me want to be there. Are you paying attention oh husband of mine? It was worth a shot. Jason and DeAnna start out on a Jeep adventure they even end up dressed alike, how sickening cute is that? I loved their picnic place. Looked like a nature wetlands preserve. At dinner, Jason gives her a sand dollar necklace and professes his love for her. OK, he may be needy but he's romantic. I'm still wondering what went wrong with his marriage.

Jesse and DeAnna go for a beach horseback ride and picnic. I still hope my husband is taking notes. At dinner, Jesse is trying to figure out life after snowboarding. Jesse, like his two predecessors, jumps at the suite. Looking at the view, it so made me want to be there. I love my backyard paradise but my pool doesn't have waves, unless someone does a cannonball!

At the rose ceremony, we get a shocker as DeAnna sends Jeremy packing. I thought sure it would be Jeremy and Jason in the final two. But wait! Next week it looks like someone comes back. I'm so sure it's Jeremy since they showed the back side of the man and he was too neatly dressed for it to be Graham! Ah suspense thy name is Bachelorette! Double D

Design Star-What Country Am I?

The designers are told to pack a bag and take their passports. Everyone is so excited. Wait a minute, pack a bag and take your passports, something smells fishy in Barcelona. I would have never fallen for that. Clive meets them on the tarmac of some small airport where he pops out of the private jet that looks more like a prop than plane. Each one of the designer open their paint can with the name of various countries, Italy, Thailand, and Mexico. Because Mike won he gets to pick any place in the world, so he picks Spain, because he's been there like a million times. Ok show of hands, how many thought they really weren't going anywhere? Me! The airplane hanger doors open to their individual room challenge which is to create a space of their chosen country. Well, lucky for Michael to chose a country where he's been to a million times! Tracee (Italy) says that her idea is so incredible and that she's going to win this challenge which translates into I'm a loser! Any time you tell the camera that you're going to win is a sign that you're going home. During the entire process Michael with his nose in the air and his strutting of patronizing fakeness keeps telling Tracee how much he loves her design all the while putting his finger down his throat in a mock attempt to puke, nice! I love it when Clive comes to visit the set and makes faces at the designers work. What, don't you think it's great? Michael keeps saying that his design is furr-roach, the term I thought was coined by our little Christian on Project Runway. Maybe furr-roach is the new hot design word for the day? Each of the individual rooms disappointed me. I wanted somberos, I wanted Thai elephants, I wanted Venetian masks, ok maybe not the somberos. There was not a speck of ethnicity in any of the rooms! They just looked like generic rooms-which country are we in?

Back at the TV studio, there in the green room is cute and tiny Lisa LaPorter (Clive's co-star) and some bald guy? Whose he? They were there to give a pep talk about how to keep on working for their dreams, blah blah blah. They really could have left that part out. I was really disappointed in the green room. I have always envisioned this room being really large, with lots of tables with heaping piles of food and drink and lots of comfy couches. Where was the food? I think there was one small table with a couple of pieces of fruit, hey what gives? Where's the hot food? Where's the buffett?

Judging time: Jennifer and Tracee both had Italy-which I loved Jenn's room with her yellow and blue, but I thought the blue should have been a more deeper blue not the washed out stuff she had. I thought her free hand painting on the walls were incredible, ok I guess she does have some talent. Tracee tried to do a gondola Venice bed with red walls and a free hand painted chandelier which didn't quite make it. I thought the bed looked sloppy, she should try to steer clear of carpentry work, or in this case foam board work. I thought the worse design of the lot was Matt who showed so much promise in the beginning. He had the country of Thailand and tried to create an abstract Buddhist temple which looked more like the monolith that was on Space Odyssey 2000, you know the one that the monkeys were worshipping? It was absurd and didn't look like Thailand at all. Mikey V's room looked more Chinese than Thai and as Vern said, more like Chinese takeout. Gotta love the Vern! Jenn wins the challenge with over confident prancer Michael getting axed and crying for his mommie. I want my mommie! I want my mommie! Well, that's what happens when you bad mouth others, karma's a bitch!-Single D

Wipeout - Yes it is!

A group of people have to negotiate an obstacle course that is pretty much impossible. I did miss the first five minutes so maybe someone came out to demonstrate, but I didn't see anyone complete the course. It's basically a lot of people bouncing off large rubber objects and falling into a giant mud puddle or getting punched off a beam into a giant mud puddle and swinging on a rope and falling into a lake (thought I was going to say mud puddle didn't you). I hope ABC got those people to sign liability waivers!

The next round is standing on a pedestal while a giant arm swings around and they have to jump over the arm or miss and fall into the water. About the only thing entertaining about this show was the commentators, oh and there was the police academy guy who wore his underwear outside of his clothes, yellow underwear and clothes to boot, eeew! I don't know where these people came from but they need to go back! I lasted about 15 minutes and got bored even with the funny bits from the commentators. Double D