Do you like to cook? Are you good at it? Want to be the next great thing in celebrity cooks?

Famous cook, Rachael Ray, is launching a nationwide search for the next hot cook called “So You Think You Can Cook.”

“We just want to give a person — a real person, not a chef or somebody specially trained to do this for a living — a shot at showing everybody their personality and how much fun you can have with food,” Ray told the Associated Press.

The field will be narrowed down to 5 contestants who will square off during 2 weeks of competitions with a winner being announced in November.

The winner will co-host “The Rachael Ray Show” for 1 day, have an original recipe published in Ray’s “Everyday With Rachael Ray” magazine and receive training at a U.S. culinary institute.

If you thank you have the oven mitts to handle it, check out contest rules on her site.  Rachael Ray.

More action at the MTV Video Awards included a physical altercation between 2 ex-husbands of Pamela Anderson.

Kid Rock was cited for battery after a physical fight with Tommy Lee. Versions of who instigated and why the fight started are varied but in the end security escorted Tommy Lee out and let Kid Rock stay to the end of the show.

A police officer was quoted as saying that Kid Rock could receive up to 6 months in jail but that it was highly uncommon for someone in that situation to receive that long a sentence.

Lately there’s been a few rumours swirling about Jessica Simpson. Porn, strait to dvd and endorsements are but few.

The porn rumour was semi-confirmed when her father and manager, Joe, stated that Jessica has been offered a role but that they had turned it down. “We were promised we would win an Oscar with that,” Joe told People. “I was like: ‘We’ll just buy a statue of a little man and keep our clothes on.’” Ends up the role was to PLAY a porn star, not act in a porn movie.

Next rumour up is that her latest film, “Blonde Ambition”, will go straight to dvd without a theatrical release. The reason? Seems some anon source stated that Jessica’s acting was ‘horrible.’ This rumour started floating not long after an official trailer for the film was leaked to the internet in May. A representative for Simpson completely denied that the movie would not be released in theatres.

Lastly is her rumoured celebrity endorsement of TrimWater. Seems she took an equity deal in exchange for the endorsement. Guess she’s pinning her hopes on a repeat of the $400 million VitaminWater deal with Coca-Cola.

In the largest, most comprehensive study of its kind, The Kaiser Foundation released a report on the conclusions of their research into 1,638 hours of children’s programming. The study reports that in those hours they found nearly 9,000 food and beverage advertisements. The breakdown of those ads are 34% for candy and snack, 28% for cereal, 4% of the ads were for dairy products and 1% for fruit juice. Not one of the 8,854 advertisements in the Kaiser study included fruits or vegetables.

In 2006 the American Academy of Pediatrics asked Congress to implement a ban on junk food commercials and the Kaiser study seems to back them up with a link between childhood obesity and junk food advertising. Childhood obesity has become a serious problem in the U.S. with an estimated 31% of children between the ages of 3 and 19 qualifying as overweight or obese.

An unusual culinary demonstration, took place in Caracas, Venezuela where chef Nelson Mendez, served to those curious, delicious Venezuelan food considered luxury, that made the participants really sick when they noticed what they’re being served with.

Mendez offered the guests, Araguato smoked monkey, smoked alligator or spiders. As a desert the eccentric chef serves you with cookies made with Bachaco, which is a large type of ants. Not sure about you but I would ran away as fast as I could if I were to be served with these dainties. For those that enjoyed his food at the gastronomic fair in Caracas, Nelson Mendez promised to teach them how to prepare it, themselves.