In this Sunday’s NYT Magazine Frank Bruni profiles Katie Lee, aspiring food celebrity.
She appears regularly on The Early Show. Her cooking column, Eat This Up, appears monthly in Cosmopolitan. She’s published books; a requirement for any food celebrity. The first book even landed her a spot on Oprah (perhaps largely because her husband at the time, Billy Joel, appeared with her).
Sales of Lee’s second book, minus the Oprah effect, have been modest. Lee observes to Bruni that the cookbooks that sell the best are by people who have their own show. Having failed to sell an earlier pilot, she is now working on another one. She also has a contract with S&S for a novel, loosely based on her life with Billy Joel.
Trying to become famous must be exhausting.
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| Retail Price: |
$26.00 |
| Hardcover: |
272 pages |
| Publisher: |
Simon Spotlight Entertainment – (2009-10-20) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
1439126747 / 9781439126745 |
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| Retail Price: |
$25.00 |
| Hardcover: |
256 pages |
| Publisher: |
Simon Spotlight Entertainment – (2008-04-01) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
141694835X / 9781416948353 |
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March 17th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Why so much hatin’ on Ms. Lee? Is she really any different from so many of this generation? I think it’s grosser that she married Billy Joel than that she would try to become famous for something she seems to genuinely love.