Rachael Ray on Ice
That’s right, Thursday was the first ever Talk Show filmed entirely on ice! We open to see Rachael lacing up her skates, while the Skyliners Synchronized Skaters twirled about the Pond at Byrant Park in New York City. Hockey Player Adam Granger helped Rachael down from the Zamboni and lead her on her wobbly skates over to the crowd. She joked that she grew up next to a lake, a 30 mile ice rink, and didn’t lace up her skates until a couple years ago. She hopes not to fall down much, though it’d sure be entertaining for me. haha!
By the way, The Pond at Bryant Park is always free to use!
The entire site is built of ice blocks, including the cooktop. Hubby John Cusimano joins and they show off their one trick - spinning in a circle together, and John jokes “How can you go in circles but not straight?” Without missing a beat, Rachael shoots back “because I’m wacked, honey, you know that.” He then lead her over to where the man who’d carved all the blocks of ice for the set, Scott Rella makes a quick sculpture of an ice globe with Rachael Ray on Ice already done on the bottom. Scott Rella performs with Fear No Ice! Performance Ice Sculpting and is used to having more then 2 minutes at a time - but all in all it was cheesy but fun. (grin)
John skated Rachael over to the icey living room where she was joined by Dennis Leary, currently of Rescue Me. He’s been skating all his life, and says it was hoped he’d be a millionaire hockey player which didn’t happen because he “suuuuuuuuucked!” He has a rink in his back yard, where he makes the rules so he kinda don’t suck out there. He feels it’s fair play to trip people and even the odds when playing against young 35 year olds! He also runs the Leary Firefighters Foundation, and after he teaches Rachael to make get a puck into the net, she told him if he made 10 slap shots, she and Sara Lee would give him $2k per puck to go to the foundation. He made it with ease, and even made a shot with two pucks at once to get $20k for the foundation!
Check here to bid on a Denis Leary autographed hockey puck to help support Rachael’s Yum-o! Organization.
Next up, Chad Netherland, decided to try and break his own record for ice breaking, trying to smash the most blocks with his bare hands in 60 seconds. He blows through the ice and manages to break them all in just 20 seconds! Nice!
After a visit with some furry and feathered friends from Seaworld and Busche Gardens that had a Canadian Lynx saying hello and a couple of Penguins wandering around, it’s time to check out another quicky ice sculpture over at the cooktop. Afterwards, it’s time to start cooking, and Olympic Skater Emily Hughes twirls about the ice to deliver the hotsauce to Rachael for the . Other edibles on the show included Fruit & Cheesecake Bite Skewers and Lusciously Rich Hot Chocolate.
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