Satilite Media Tour with Guy Fieri for RACHEL VS. GUY: CELEBRITY COOKOFF

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Here’s a picture of Guy Fieri in the studio for a Satellite Media Tour for an interview on his role in RACHEL VS. GUY: CELEBRITY COOKOFF and other cooking tips for the big game!

Food Network icon Rachael Ray and best-selling cookbook author and successful restaurateur Guy Fieri,return to coach and mentor eight new celebrity contestants for the second season of Food Network’s Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, Sunday’s at 9pm ET/PT.  The eight celebrities are divided into Team Guy and Team Rachael, as they head out to the west coast to compete over the course of six episodes in intense weekly challenges that are sure to have them working, fighting and laughing along the way. The losing team must send its two bottom-rated contestants to face off against each other, with one member sent home each week in a blind tasting elimination challenge. The last celebrity standing will join the ranks of season one winner, Lou Diamond Phillips, and win $50,000 for the charity which they are playing for.

The eight celebrity contestants competing for the title of Cook-Off champion and a cash prize for their charity include Chilli (member of pop/R&B group TLC), Gilbert Gottfried (actor, comedian), Cornelia Guest (designer, author, philanthropist), Dean McDermott (actor, reality television star), Kathy Najimy(actress, Sister Act), Hines Ward (former NFL player; Super Bowl Champion and MVP), Carnie Wilson(singer, Wilson Phillips) and Johnny Weir (two-time Olympic Figure Skater, three-time U.S. National Champion).

The celebrity contestants aren’t the only ones focusing on charity. Guy Fieri is lending a helping hand by educating people to the very real problem of childhood hunger that we are facing in America today, as one in five children struggles with hunger. Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign is helping end childhood hunger in this nation by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need every day, by connecting kids in need with nutritious food and teaching their families how to cook healthy, affordable meals, where they live, learn and play. Through its Cooking Matters program, the No Kid Hungry campaign equips low-income families with skills to stretch their food budgets so their kids get healthy meals at home. Cooking Matters participants learn to shop smarter, use nutrition information to make healthier food choices, and cook delicious, affordable meals. You can learn more about Cooking Matters by visiting CookingMatters.org.

Jane O’Connor: NANCY CLANCY, SECRET ADMIRER

FANCY NANCY IS BACK WITH HER SECOND CHAPTER BOOK!

Fancy Nancy is best known to millions of little girls for her fancy tiaras, pink boas and sparkly shoes.  With more than 17 million books sold since the series launched in December 2005, translated into 17 languages and over 230 weeks 9780062082961on the New York Times bestseller list, the Fancy Nancy franchise shows no sign of slowing down. However, all children grow up, including Fancy Nancy…. Author Jane O’Connor and Illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser have teamed up once again for their second installment of their chapter book series, featuring Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret Admirer.

Nancy Clancy and her best friend Bree have love on the brain—after all, they’re learning all about the human heart in science class! Nancy is determined to work out the mysteries of the heart. Doesn’t a touch of romance make everything better? But when Nancy and Bree decide to take love into their own hands, it isn’t quite as easy as they thought it would be. Will love conquer all?