Celebrity Cooking Showdown

No. I am not making it up. The newest reality show is Celebrity Cooking Showdown. And what network is carrying this show? The Food Network? Perhaps The Travel Channel? Maybe Bravo or A&E? Nope. NBC.

The summary from NBC...

Nine culinary-minded stars team with celebrity chefs including Wolfgang
Puck, Cat Cora and Govind Armstrong to whip up this eventful new reality cooking competition series!

From Zap2it...

NBC has finalized the sorta-famous kitchen crew for its week-long "Celebrity
Cooking Showdown," and the cast has a distinct "Dancing with the Stars" vibe.

The group includes an all-pro football player, a hip-hop star, a self-effacing veteran actor, a statuesque athlete/actress, a soap-opera star and a former boy-band singer, job descriptions straight from the "Dancing" playbook. In this case, those roles are filled by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez, Ja Rule, Tom Arnold, Gabrielle Reece, "Days of Our Lives'" Allison Sweeney and O-Town/"There and Back" star Ashley Parker Angel.

Yes. You read that correctly. Ja Rule. JA RULE. That pretty much does it for his street cred, I think. And Allison Sweeney, a.k.a. Sami Brady. Wow. She will probably just steal someone's souffle while it is baking, change the medical records and claim it is her souffle.

I thought that Skating with Celebrities was the saddest and silliest that reality could get, but I was so wrong. Wow. Celebrity Cooking Showdown. I might just have to watch this trainwreck.

Oh my! I just found out that Puff Daddy is producing this show! Oh and Naomi Campbell is being listed as a participant. No Naomi! Say it isn't so. Well, if it must be so, please tell me that you will be slapping people around. That would be good TV. Come to think of it, Naomi "Do I Have To Slap A Bitch" Campbell and Sami Brady in a room filled with knives...this could be the most awesome thing EVER.