12 Celebrities Who’ve Had Their Own Cooking Shows

"I ne'er really would’ve thought I would person a cooking show, but I had nan champion clip doing it."

Cooking shows aren’t conscionable for master chefs -- location are a ton of celebrities who person taken their cooking talents to TV too! Over nan years, a number of stars person turned their passion for nan culinary arts into a full caller profession by launching their very ain cooking shows. Whether they were sharing their favourite dishes, trying a unsocial look aliases learning thing caller from their favourite chef, these celebs proved that they knew what they were doing some connected group and successful nan kitchen!

Find retired what these stars cooked up…

Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle conscionable premiered her eight-episode manner show, With Love, Meghan, successful which she shares her emotion of cooking, crafting, and gardening. The show is simply a return to Meghan’s passion for creativity, which she utilized to show connected her blog, The Tig, earlier getting joined to Prince Harry. When brainstorming ideas for her caller show, Meghan shared that she didn’t want it to beryllium a “stand and stir” format -- but thing that was much communal.

"It feels arsenic though we’re conscionable spending clip together, which is what it ended up being," she told People of nan crew’s beingness connected nan show. "I’d make a look and say, 'Everyone effort this,' and location are definite dishes wherever you conscionable watch everyone flock in. I’d say, 'We’ve tally retired of spoons!' It ended up emotion truthful communal, and that’s nan tone of nan show."

Selena Gomez

In 2020, Selena Gomez launched her cooking show Selena + Chef, wherever she teamed up pinch a master cook each section for a cooking instruction and tackled a caller type of cuisine. She shared recipes and tips and tricks for nan room -- and donated $10,000 to nan kindness of nan chef’s prime each episode. After 4 seasons, she announced a Food Network spinoff titled Selena + Restaurant, which followed nan character arsenic she attempted to create an original crockery worthy of being connected a edifice menu.

"Season 1 I was a complete disaster and not to opportunity I still don’t person my moments but I’ve travel a agelong way,” she told People, adding that she now rates her cooking skills a "5 retired of 10."

Hailey Bieber

In 2022, Hailey Bieber announced her cooking show, What’s successful My Kitchen?, a spinoff to her celebrated YouTube series, Who’s In My Bathroom? Inspired by her emotion of nutrient and trying retired different recipes, Hailey shared immoderate of her favourite dishes and brought on her favourite people, including her mom and BFF Kendall Jenner.

"What’s In My Kitchen? was a earthy spinoff to Who’s In My Bathroom? because our assemblage was fresh for america to extremity eating successful nan bathroom!” Hailey said earlier nan show’s launch. “I’ve loved cooking and sharing meals pinch friends connected my societal channels for years, and I can’t hold to bring this acquisition to nan fans."

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Amy Schumer

During nan pandemic, Amy Schumer launched a cooking show alongside her master cook husband, Chris Fischer. Filmed correct successful their home, Amy Schumer Learns To Cook covered everything from nan basics, for illustration poaching an egg, to recreating nan couple’s favourite stiff foods from scratch.

"Chris came up pinch nan sanction and that’s precisely what nan show is. For me, it was nervus wracking. Everything wasn’t successful my control, which was a small triggering. I was a small protect astatine first, but erstwhile I realized it was conscionable america being ourselves I trusted that we were doing nan champion we could. And he’s nan champion navigator I ever tasted…. which sounds disgusting," Amy jokingly told Fatherly.

Florence Pugh

Florence Pugh besides created her ain cooking show during nan early days of pandemic, posting Cooking With Flo videos connected YouTube. Her emotion of cooking stems from her life increasing up pinch parents who are some cooks. Her begetter Clinton moreover owns respective restaurants successful England. As Florence has continued to station cooking content, she says location person been “real conversations” astir turning nan bid into a afloat show. But nary matter wherever she shares her cooking content, she wants viewers to cognize it’s not astir perfection.

"I ever for illustration making a fewer mistakes because to maine that’s wherever nan champion nutrient and cooking comes from," she said connected the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton erstwhile had her ain short lived Netflix cooking show, Cooking With Paris, inspired by her clip spent astatine location during nan pandemic. Looking backmost Paris says she shared a video making lasagna connected YouTube and aft it went viral, she began to get offers for a afloat show. She collaborated up pinch Netflix and invited immoderate of her astir celebrated friends to navigator successful her kitchen, including Kim Kardashian and Demi Lovato.

"Cooking pinch Paris was inspired by conscionable being astatine location during nan pandemic. It was nan astir I’ve ever been astatine location successful my life…I ne'er really would’ve thought I would person a cooking show, but I had nan champion clip doing it. It’s truthful overmuch fun, and I’m very proud of nan show. I had nan champion clip doing it," Paris told Mashed.

She continued, "It was conscionable a batch of fun, conscionable to person each my friends coming complete and conscionable having truthful overmuch nosy pinch nan fashion, because I wanted it to beryllium a very fashionable cooking show. Because I’ve ne'er really seen that and benignant of mixed successful drama successful nan cooking show, which conscionable very unique."

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Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson is getting fresh to motorboat her caller plant-based cooking show, Pamela’s Cooking With Love, which follows up her cookbook, I Love You: Recipes from nan Heart. Looking back, Pamela says she’s been wanting to do this for years but nary 1 was willing astatine nan time.

"I wanted to do a vegan cooking show a agelong clip ago, and I brought it to nan U.S. for illustration 30 years agone and they were for illustration 'What are you talking about? Nobody wants to perceive astir plant-based cooking!' But I’ve ever been an eternal benignant of homemaker," Pamela told Canadian Flavour Network.

She continued, "This has ever been my dream to person a cooking show. Always, always, always. [My son] Brandon came to maine and said, ‘Mom, your dream is going to travel true.' And now we are connected a web successful Canada, which is moreover amended because I americium truthful insistent connected doing Canadian projects and moving pinch Canadian accumulation companies."

Tia Mowry

Tia Mowry hosted her ain cooking show, Tia Mowry astatine Home, connected nan Cooking Channel from 2015 to 2017. While nan show is nary longer connected nan air, Tia still shares cooking and manner contented connected her YouTube channel.

"I want to animate moms to get backmost successful nan kitchen. I want to show moms that not only is it awesome to person your kids eat patient foods arsenic opposed to McDonald’s, but it’s awesome to bring nan family backmost together," she told Essence.

She continued, "Growing up, that was erstwhile my family would talk astir really our time was, what was troubling us, who bullied america astatine school. It was for illustration a therapy convention for nan family. So I want to promote moms to not beryllium intimidated by nan room and spot that we tin hole these patient meals and besides bring nan family move back. Life is difficult enough. If we tin travel together and conscionable laughter and joke and outcry pinch a fewer drinks going astir nan array and pinch awesome food, why not?"

Ayesha Curry

Ayesha Curry has been sharing her emotion of cooking for complete a decade -- contempt not having immoderate general training arsenic a chef. After initially posting cooking videos connected YouTube, she hosted her ain show, Ayesha’s Home Kitchen, connected Food Network from 2016 to 2018. She’s since published 2 cookbooks and has go progressive successful galore food-related ventures, including a edifice successful Los Angeles.

“That’s benignant of why I started connected this travel of being successful nan culinary and manner world,” Ayesha told Buzzfeed. “Because I consciousness for illustration I tin thief group support their family relationships live and bring group together done food. Who wouldn't want to do that?”

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Tori Spelling

Before their split, Tori Spelling and her ex-husband Dean McDermott hosted 3 cooking specials connected nan Cooking Channel: Backyard Dinner Party, Thanksgiving pinch Tori & Dean, and Spring Picnic pinch Tori & Dean. She’s since shared cooking contented connected her integer show, Tori Tried and True, and moreover took portion successful MasterChef: Celebrity Family Showdown.

Michelle Obama

In 2021, Michelle Obama hosted a children’s cooking show called Waffles + Mochi. Michelle teamed up pinch personage chefs arsenic good arsenic immoderate adorable puppets to thief thatch children astir cooking and nutrition. At nan time, Michelle said she wanted to make nan show "fun and educational" while besides making "an effect connected hunger" by raising costs for children successful need.

"Waffles + Mochi, nan full conception is fun. It’s approachable, it’s an adventure, it’s exciting, it’s funny. More importantly, it’s thing that I would watch moreover if nary kids were around," Michelle told People. "And it sewage maine backmost into nan abstraction of kids and patient eating and introducing them to vegetables... what we talked astir for 8 years successful nan White House."

Patricia Heaton

Patricia Heaton concisely hosted her ain Food Network cooking bid called Patricia Heaton Parties betwixt 2015 and 2016. During each episode, she cooks meals for parties pinch a circumstantial theme. While nan show only aired for 2 seasons, it did return location a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program. Looking back, Patricia admits it was a “really hard” job.

"I was ne'er truthful exhausted until I vanished those cooking shows,” she said connected The Rachael Ray Show. “I’m utilized to moving pinch a book and I memorize my lines and past I opportunity them…To talk astir nutrient and to ‘cook retired loud,’ I mean it was hard! But it was really fun."