Martha Stewart bitchslaps Rachel Ray over Barry Manilow

AKAMissy · November 3rd, 2006, 09:36 AM

Martha Stewart please STFU. Thanks.

zorbeet · November 3rd, 2006, 10:34 AM

Still amazed that Barry Manilow is part of a show's sweeps week draw for one show. Let alone two shows.

louiswinthorpe111 · November 3rd, 2006, 10:42 AM

Martha's just pissed that someone DARE book a guest on the same day as her. I don't watch either show, but Martha needs to know she's not the only game in town.

moomies · November 3rd, 2006, 04:36 PM

Martha Bitchslaps Rachael Over Barry

Posted Nov 2nd 2006 2:36PM by TMZ Staff

Martha Stewart threw rival talk-show diva Rachael Ray into her wicker-and-jute ring this morning, and, in her inimitably patrician way, gave her a verbal smackdown for daring to air her show with Barry Manilow at exactly the same time Her Martha-ness did.

At 10 am in New York, both Martha (on NBC) and Rachael's (on ABC) shows featured the ageless crooner Manilow as a musical guest, and Martha was none too pleased. "I've never actually met Rachael Ray," said Martha during her opening monologue, with a rather unmistakable chortle. "I think she's very fun...lively...uh...young woman," continued the domestic queen, racking her brain for adjectival possibilities. "She has Barry on her show today ... Now that's kinda weird."

Martha went on to claim that Rachael had originally scheduled the Manilow show for tomorrow, but for some reason moved up his appearance to today, and then wagged a stern verbal finger in Ray's face, saying, "I don't know ... I think it's not ... great for the artist." Stewart also pointed out that her show was a live broadcast, and show producers flashed the fact that the show was live several times on-air.

A rep for Rachael Ray tells TMZ, "Barry was a fantastic guest, and we wanted to lead our sweeps with the best show we had in the can, and that was Barry Manilow." A call to Martha's rep wasn't immediately returned.

source:
http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/02/martha...el-over-barry/

Rachael To Martha: "Out of My Kitchen, Bee-Yotch!"

Let the battle of the spatulas begin: Four staffers from Martha Stewart's show tried to sneak into a taping of junior domestic diva Rachael Ray's show last week, but a security guard who works for both shows recognized them and had them ejected. Ray's show, which begins today on its nationally syndicated run, will compete against Stewart's daytime show, which has garnered only so-so ratings thus far.

But a Page Six source says that Ray's show has nothing to hide: "[The spies] were kicked out because they lied about their names. Otherwise they would have been welcome to stop by." A Stewart spokesman says the quartet weren't asked to leave by the guard, but by one of Martha's former audience coordinators who now works for Ray.

source:
http://www.tmz.com/2006/09/18/rachae...hen-bee-yotch/

calendargurl · November 3rd, 2006, 04:51 PM

I've watched Rachael's show a couple times and it's so stupid! She should just stick to cooking b/c the other stuff she does on that show are pointless and annoying!

**NoDayButToday** · November 3rd, 2006, 08:05 PM

The roommates love this show. All I have to say is that it's better than Dr. Phil, the last roommate's TV obsession....

provence · November 3rd, 2006, 08:22 PM

Uh, smack THIS Martha and Rachel!!!!!!! The both should just have a spatula smackdown and beat the crap out of one another. Then go hang up their spatulas and get off my tv because they both drive me insane.