Thursday, May 13, 2010

Hating Katie Lee

Oh, Jesus! Must everything be dumbed down? And down and down? It’s bad enough when Hollywood changes its Demi Moore screen version of The Scarlet Letter to have a happy ending. (Moore claimed, “It’s OK. Not that many people have read the book.” So noted.) But when food gets messed with, specifically by “celebrity chefs,” it’s time to man (or “to person”) the battle stations.

Our petitioner this time around singles out one Katie Lee, though any number of eligible candidates leap to mind. Ms. Lee, the former child bride of singer Billy Joel, has parlayed her photogenic face, figure and Greenwich Village townhouse into instant entrée to the ever-increasing ranks of food wannabes. Rachael Ray, Paula Deen, Katie Lee, the list goes on. Who are these people? Where did they suddenly come from? And how can we send them back pronto? Enough!

Lee’s claim to fame, it seems, aside from her five-minute marriage and her former hosting duties on Top Chef, is a deft hand at making cheeseburgers, an award-winning skill she proudly displays online, on TV and at celebrity events. (A recent New York Times profile with accompanying online video had its tongue planted comfortably in its cheek as it ooohed and ahhhed over Lee and her oeuvre.) Sounds like something we should be laughing at on community access TV, not reading about in the newspaper of record.

Julia Child and James Beard were the first to bring the art of preparing fine cuisine to the masses via television, and through it all they remained dignified, respectable, entertaining and true to the art they espoused. This new crew of backwoods experts seems happy as all get-out just to be on TV…and so what if they use canned frosting, garlic powder and processed cheese-food? (Though not all in the same recipe. Not yet anyway.)

Kiss of Death: Katie the L (along with her ex, “William”) is extolled in the pages of Gwyneth the P’s unctuous newsletter, Goop.

Ms. Lee, you seem like a sweet young lady with a lovely family, you really do. Why not just shut up and go home? Thanks.

Katie Lee:
Officially registered at Hate for Hire, May 13, 2010.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Always wondered where the notoriety was from. Younger people are so full of self-esteem that they don't feel they need training or expertise to be something. Class, dignification, education, and expertise use to be what people humbly expected of themselves. And it was what onlookers expected as well in order to take advice.....SS-Anonymous

Anonymous said...

First of all no offense but Katie Lea is not attractive she's bucktooth and very ordinary looking like everyone else on the planet. Secondly she is the most boring person I've ever heard on television, her voice is nasally she is monotone and she talks so severely slow and so fake. All of her recipes are boring,lame and my four-year-old granddaughter can make them better. She is uninteresting, her food is horrible and she is only riding on the coat strings of other people, it is shameful. She is so desperate desperate to be like desperate to be numb and desperate to have everyone thinks that she knows anything but how to be a gold digger. I guess being a gold-digger does pay!

Anonymous said...

Katie Lee is not attractive she is not a cook she is not an author she is nasally boring monotone her so called recipes are horrible my four-year-old granddaughter does a better job she's nothing to look at. The most annoyingly slow obnoxious voice ever did I mention twangy monotone oh my gosh! What she is is a gold digger, right place right time legs wide open! Apparently she will spread them for anybody. She is a desperate desperate person she wants people to know who she is even though she is a nobody and always will be but I guess gold digging does pay

Unknown said...

I hate katie lee and that voice makes me want to throw up,so you say just turn the channel well I do and its ashame because the Kitchen is a good show and it should not be turned off by people because of one person that cannot cook and will make you run for the bathroom when you here that voice.

nboldt11 said...

Her voice. It’s annoying. If she is on, we push mute. And I’m pretty sure it’s fake. It’s like she’s 8 and trying to be cute. Actually, we can’t watch her on mute anymore, cause I can hear the voice subconsciously.

Unknown said...

I thought I was the only one who hated her. I have never liked her on the kitchen and wondered how she got on the network in the first place. I watched her tonight on beat Bobby Flay and she was so disrespectful. I know Bobby can be cocky but he has earned it. What the hell has she done? I have many family members that can cook circles around her. If they would take her off the Kitchen it would be so much better. She seems so fake and like she is just winging it. I would like it if she was just off the network period.

Unknown said...

Katie Lee please stop talking, your voice is very annoying....I really liked the kitchen until you start talking or whining..I don't want to hurt feelings but it's make me very uneasy listing yo that voice...please lip sink or something!! Cant.listen any more and why is Marcella even employed there for insurance to have kids , dishes never there. Can her and hire some one that really wants to work like Valerie bertanillie shes,amazing , beautiful and would really bring up your ratings! Hire her and get rid of the people that the viewers don't want to watch!! Please respectively again please do it for the loyal viewers thank you

Anonymous said...

I am not a hateful person, but l have to agree that the way she talks is very hard on my ears. It’s the high pich upswings at the end ofevery sentence. One minute she speaks just fine but when she is demonstrating something it’s like she is trying to channel Julia Child. I like The Kitchen but l really cannot bear her voice.

Unknown said...

Katie lee is a anoying and her voice sounds like off the charlie brown cartoon wha wha wha sickning

Anonymous said...

Oh she drives me nuts oh oh that looks so good then she breaks of a fingernail piece or doesn’t eat it make a face just watch her she should not be on a food show ,go on a exercise show go away

Anonymous said...

She always has to be the first to get fed! She's tacky as heck. Lately, I've noticed the rest of the Kitchen cast seems to be growing tired of her act!

Anonymous said...

I cannot stand the way she prounounces some words. Ex:. "Hold" becomes "Hoed" and "old" becomes "ode" ugh. West Virginia accent rising up in that forced, robotic tick-like tone she desperately uses to cover up her hick accent.

Unknown said...

And has anyone noticed that she NEVER says please? It's hand me that or give me that. RUDE!

Anonymous said...

Why is she still on! She tries, but I still can't watch her, I have to fast forward through her segments.

Anonymous said...

She is terrible never eats anything just puts a crumb in her mouth terrible cook not a chef so why is she on ,she falls all over jz take her off

Anonymous said...

She licks her fingers to

Unknown said...

How about her latest trick of taking the entire plate of salad and eating it herself? This hillbilly grabs food first before anyone else gets a chance.

Unknown said...

I know I saw that what a pig! I'd like to complain to the station about that.
She's always sticking her stupid finger s in everything too

Unknown said...

Katie Lees voice is really hard to listen to! Recipes not great! Jeff Mauro I’d difficult to watch! So full of himself and obviously trying to outdo GZ, who is a good chef!

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure she's made it better off than you. Jealousy doesn't look good on anyone. She IS pretty, but the rest is pretty spot on lol.

Anonymous said...

Wow, you guys really hate her…lol. But you have to give the girl credit. She has no cooking talent and grates on the ears when she speaks but has still managed to get rich off of it. But I would like them to replace her with someone that has a recipe that I would want to cook. It’s such an obviously huge gap between her cooking skills and the rest of them.
Let’s face it though, if she wasn’t so pretty and appealed to the hillbillies out there, she wouldn’t have a job.

Anonymous said...

I have to agree. I can't stand Katie Lee.

Anonymous said...

You are sooo right. Her two front teeth are hideous. I wouldn't criticize normally, but she thinks she is so wonderful. What a joke. I had to quit watching The Kitchen because of stupid Katie.

Anonymous said...

I have watched every episode. She has claimed other chefs recipes as her own. Yes, she has to be first to eat or she pouts. No reason why the producers have allowed her selfish behavior to continue.