Cooking Show Secrets Revealed: Here’s All The Dirt Celebrity Chefs Don’t Want You To Know!

Giada De Laurentiis Refuses To Eat Her Food

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One of the first questions fans always ask Giada De Laurentiis when they see her is how she stays so thin. So what is her secret to staying fit as a celebrity chef? The sad answer is a spit bucket. If you watch carefully, her shows will either cut to commercial or another angle before she’s done chewing.

What you don’t see, thanks to “movie magic,” is her grab a nearby spit bucket (actual name), and… you know. Producers on her shows swear she does eat some food, but when upwards of ten takes happen for one shot, that’s just not possible.