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Published on Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008
Watch, Don't Eat? Inside Edition has a report today on why you may not want to go to restaurants run by TV-celebrity chefs.
The report says health inspectors cited a Miami restaurant owned by Emeril Lagasse for 13 critical violations. The program also found trouble at eateries tied to Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay, Todd English and Laurent Tourondel.
One of Ramsay's places ''was cited for employees touching ready-to-eat foods with bare hands and not washing their hands after touching a bare body part,'' says the show. And when Inside Edition checked out one of English's places, producers were served a salad with a plastic wrapper in it.
Yum.
Only Paula Deen fared well among the chefs investigated. Her place, says the show, ''was immaculate.''
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National TV, Local People. Canton resident Katie Surber will be a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire tonight. She teaches English composition at the University of Akron, Walsh University and Stark State College. Her husband, Daniel, accompanied her to the taping in New York City.
By the way, the show was taped in October 2007, when Surber was eight months pregnant. In December, she gave birth to a boy named Aidan.
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Wrong Picture? Much has been made of a photo of a barebacked Miley Cyrus in the new issue of Vanity Fair. Cyrus herself has belatedly decided the photo is embarrassing. But more should be said about another photo, of Miley and her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus.
It doesn't really look like a father-daughter shot, with a pouty-provocative Miley reclining between her seated father's legs, his arm around her neck and him holding her hand.
As several parents of young kids have mentioned to me, that photo is a lot creepier than the one people have been yelling about.
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Culture Wars. ''The French are losing the battle to protect their culture from English-language contamination,'' says the New York Post. ''The French entry in the annual Eurovision Song Contest contains lyrics in English.
''This has brought the wrath of leading members of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party down on both state-owned TV stations, which made the selection, as well as the singer, Sebastien Tellier,'' the newspaper continues. That's especially irritating to Francophiles because each country gets to enter only one song in the continental competition.
Tellier at first contended that his song ''just doesn't work in French.'' But now he will sing it en Francais. And if he loses? C'est la vie.•
Mug Shots. Akron's own Angie Everhart is out on bail after a drunk-driving arrest last week. She may have been lamenting the end of her engagement to Joe Pesci.
Yes, Joe Pesci. At least, that's what the tabloids have said. The New York Daily News said an Everhart rep denied there had been an engagement — but admitted a friendship. Sounds like something Roger Clemens might say.
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Speaking of Denials . . . People.com says Mario Lopez and Dancing With the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff are no longer an item. Not that they ever said they were.
''The couple, who met during Dancing's third season, never publicly acknowledged their relationship despite the fact that the pair were living together in Lopez's Los Angeles home,'' says the site. Now Smirnoff — teamed this season with a single-name Mario — is reportedly moving out.
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Bad Idea? As has been mentioned, Star Jones has split from her husband. So is the best time for her to be associated with a show called Bad Girls Club?
Oxygen says Jones will host a May 20 reunion of the cast from the second season of the reality series. She'll be moderating a discussion of ''heated arguments, angry brawls, and outrageous behavior'' during the show. I just hope that's not also a description of her marriage.
Ba-dum. Thanks, you're beautiful, I'm here all week.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in a blog at http://www.ohio.com. You can find more columns, questions and answers at http://www.ohio.com/entertainment/heldenfels.
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