Rachael Ray has kicked off the seventeenth season of her daytime present, which can tape exhibits in Ukraine in October.
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Rachael Ray is taking her daytime present to war-torn Ukraine.
“The Rachael Ray Present” is planning to decamp to Ukraine in October to tape exhibits there because the nation continues to battle for its survival after being attacked by Russia in late February.
“It makes me cry to consider it,” Ray, 54, informed The Submit throughout an interview to speak about the seventeenth season of “Rachael Ray,” which premiered earlier this month (2 p.m./Ch. 7). “We’re going to an orphanage that’s additionally a church and a vocational coaching college and we’re going to construct out their kitchens … and make borscht with the kids there.
“We’re going to return to a hospital [in Lviv], which is a central location for anybody who survives assaults, and we would have time to get to an enormous cemetery the place the best of [Ukraine] and the lately fallen casualties of the conflict are buried.
“I didn’t need to do that, even privately, with a cellphone, as a result of I’m not doing this for private achieve, like, ‘Oh, take a look at her, she’s doing work there.’ I hate individuals who put on philanthropy on their sleeves,” she mentioned. “They’re defending democracy for the free world and we are able to’t lose sight of that — we have to hold [the Ukrainian people] in our hearts, spirits and minds.”
Right here in New York, “Rachael Ray” returned to its studio final season following the pandemic. Ray, who did the present remotely for some time from her house in upstate New York — with husband John Cusimano as her cameraman — will proceed that hybrid mannequin this season, which opened with a two-part present filmed in Italy.
“A couple of years in the past we opened our house to the TV present and let individuals see actually each a part of or personal lives,” she mentioned. “We at all times stored our house our house, our personal house … and even taking footage there it was like, ‘No, no no.’ I had no selection once we closed the studio through the pandemic … and we’re persevering with to do this this 12 months via the top of the season — half within the studio and half upstate.
“I like the combo,” she mentioned, “the enjoyable vitality of being within the studio for a chronic time once more. The primary couple of days [this season] Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz have been right here; they’re each longtime buddies of the present and beautiful individuals and to the touch them and say hello and hang around backstage was beautiful.”
Ray mentioned she doesn’t know what the longer term holds concerning her syndicated discuss present, which premiered in 2006.
“I've to suppose lots about it. There are individuals I need to produce and I need to shoot extra from Italy,” she mentioned. “No choices have been made and, fairly frankly, I’ve by no means been good like that. I solely received right here [when the show first started] as a result of I don’t plan forward an excessive amount of. I let issues tackle a lifetime of their very own.
“I’m not the boss of [whether the show will return for another season], even partially,” she mentioned. “There are bigger forces at work — viewership, viewers’ suggestions, all of the individuals you're employed with and the partnerships you kind.
“It’s a collective factor — so why fear about one thing you may’t do something about within the second?”
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