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Are These People For Real?

HyeChaps

By HyeChaps
in Worst Cooks In America [V]

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This show hasn't been believable since Joshie's season.  Then I was on the edge of my chair rooting for him week after week.  Each season since the show has devolved into a sit com without a laugh track.  Judging from the previews, the people this time will be the worst and least believable yet.  Maybe that's why Bobby Flay is no longer involved.  I'll be interested to see how Tyler handles his role.  I'm not even sure why I'm planning to watch but I know I will.  :0

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WhitneyWhit

WhitneyWhit

I was suspicious of Alina from last season. She was a caretaker but claimed she couldn't cook, yet she breezed through every challenge and seemed to have a knowledge of flavors and food. It just didn't add up. Then I saw that she listed herself as an actress as well and I became even more suspicious.

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EAG46

EAG46

David seems especially fake.  No vegetables since the 1970s?   How the hell is he still alive?    If Tyler and Anne survive this season sober and sane it'll be a miracle.

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Kromm

Kromm

It's fake.  It's always been fake.

 

The only question is how much of the I can't cook stuff is coming from the people themselves and how much from Production instruction.  And by that I mean people tossing together a bad dish on purpose, then doing stupid stuff in audition and on camera for the first episode, then magically being far better by Episode 2.

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Reo

Reo

It seems to me that a sub-100 IQ is the main requirement to get on the show, along with no sense of style (but a dedication to make yourself stand out by looking ludicrous).  Being a terrible cook goes along with being a moron.

 

It's a shame really, I like the concept of the show.  I know these people are only playing dumb, but I'm at the point of wondering how they manage to get dressed in the morning.

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mlp

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It's fake.  It's always been fake.

 

You may be right but I'm not so sure.  I didn't see season 1 so I can't comment on that but I thought season 2 (Joshie's season) was legit.  Joshie was hyper but he and everyone else seemed like "real" people to me.  The tasks made a lot more sense too.  They did things like knife skills drills instead of starting with complicated dishes.  I thought things started downhill in season 3 when it turned out that everyone in the cast was not as represented - including the woman who won. 

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Reo

Reo

I liked Joshie.  I never got the sense that he was faking being a terrible cook, and bought that he was intelligent and willing to learn.  It's pretty much been downhill ever since.  I think this is my last season.

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Kromm

Kromm

Unless Joshie was faking it on line, his posts on TWoP indicated he was indeed a terrible cook. He was most appreciative of the chance to learn and the encouragement from other posters.

Well that says he may have been legit, but if he's not so swift he may have missed signs that the others may have been faking.

 

I will say that the earlier the season, the less likely people are faking.  I mean the show being on the air longer means more people would have heard of it and then been able to scheme to fake being bad to suddenly transform, cook well. and win the money.

 

This of course follows the theory that the production company itself isn't facilitating fakery and so its down just to individual contestants.

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Well that says he may have been legit, but if he's not so swift he may have missed signs that the others may have been faking.

 

Joshie was a lawyer so he was swift enough to get through law school.  That doesn't, of course, preclude him being oblivious to what was going on around him.  I'm sure I don't know but he's still my favorite Worst Cook.  What I do know is that I wasn't suspicious of the cast back then and have been more and more each season since.

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grisgris

grisgris

Word to that. For a bunch of inept neophytes, there were some pretty impressive-looking crepes produced. I've been cooking for myself for nearly 30 year and am fairly sure that I couldn't turn out crepes like that on my first attempt.

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NikSac

NikSac

I pretty much always consider my first crepe in the pan a "throwaway" - I don't know why, but I can never ever get the first one to turn out even if the rest of them turn out great. To think these people have never made crepes before AND they're turning out great, with some of them even doing the fancy "air flip" thing, just seems so unrealistic.

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chessiegal

chessiegal

Experienced chefs say you toss out the first crepe. While Julia Child wasn't a chef, she was professionally trained, and she is the first person I heard say the first crepe goes in the trash. I still think these people are getting many hours of training off camera, so between that and the editing monkeys, I'm not in the least surprised to see good looking crepes being made, including an air flip.

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MajorWoody

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One thing that using these outlandish characters does is make it easy to determine who is going home each week. When you see the two losers standing their awaiting their fate, if you chose the blander one as being the one sent home you are almost always going to be right.

When they get down to a smaller number, and they are all characters, it might be a little tougher, but for now we've been able to call the correct loser each week. Even this week, with the circus freak magician, we called it right. He started off as a character the first episode, but seemed to have turned into a somewhat normal, bland person after that.

Otherwise, the central casting clowns are going to always stick around for the ratings.

I'm also calling BS on Leo not knowing how to cook. He seems to be too skilled for someone who has just a few weeks of lessons under his belt.

Also, does Leo have a suitcase full of glasses? It seems like he has a different pair every shot? Maybe he got Elton Johns throwaways.

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beverlyoc

beverlyoc

I think Leo is definitely fake.  Twice now he's said "Thank you for coming" as he threw something away, which is a direct quote from Anne's "Secrets of a Restaurant Chef".  And on the most recent episode, he said "Bam!" as he added something.  He's a Food Network watcher, for sure.

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Nysha

Nysha

I think Kristen & Sharif are fake. Kristen's family owns a restaurant and she never learned to cook? Yeah, right, she might have little screw-ups, but all her dishes turn out pretty good. The same with Sharif, he has great knife skills, yet can't figure out that if he needs to add salt? His dishes always look great, so they're cooked great, just not well seasoned. I think they were recruited because they're both young & good looking. 

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Snarklepuss

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Joshie was a lawyer so he was swift enough to get through law school.  That doesn't, of course, preclude him being oblivious to what was going on around him.  I'm sure I don't know but he's still my favorite Worst Cook.  What I do know is that I wasn't suspicious of the cast back then and have been more and more each season since.

 

I liked Joshie until I joined his Facebook page and got to see him cursing out and insulting everyone who follows organized religion.  It went over the line into creepy and mental.  The guy is smart but I thought he pegged the meter on dysfunction.  OK, I get it that he was bitter about his repressive religion in childhood but he took bitter to a level that even I have never seen.

 

Michael Haydin (cute, quirky accountant who wore big glasses and bow ties) was for real.  He's on my LinkedIn contact list as he works in my area.  I noticed that on his Twitter page he posted a poster for the Season 6 casting and it showed Bobby Flay and Ann Burrell - I wonder if Bobby backed out and that's why they got Tyler to do it.

 

That said, every season I think they let a few fakes in - People who are not really "worst cooks" and who are playing a role.

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mlp

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Looks like the Celebrity Edition is going to feature a slew of people I never heard of and..................... Rachael Ray?  I do not like her as a judge.  When she did those kids' cooking competitions, everything she said sounded insincere and scripted which it probably was.  I'm sure I'll end up watching this but I'm not looking forward to it with any real interest.

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GaT

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Looks like the Celebrity Edition is going to feature a slew of people I never heard of and..................... Rachael Ray?  I do not like her as a judge.  When she did those kids' cooking competitions, everything she said sounded insincere and scripted which it probably was.  I'm sure I'll end up watching this but I'm not looking forward to it with any real interest.

She's not a judge, she's one of the coaches, I guess Bobby & Tyler had too much self respect to sign on for this crapfest. All the contestants are either from other reality shows, or they're D list actors. 

 

they're, not their. sigh.

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GaT

GaT

 This is just a merger of Rachel vs. Guy with Worst Cooks in America, with Worst Cooks being the surviving show.

You would think that they would have Guy do this instead so they can keep the male/female coach thing going.

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