Mario Batali is ACCUSED!

Then there were three (Host of the Chew)

Wow! Yet another close associate of Gwynneth Paltrow is a self-identifying sex pest.

He and Lidia Bastianich deserve each other.

Ewwwwww

VOMIT....!!!

Its bad enough being groped. Its even worse coming from a fat pig who wears crocs. Do we think he wore crocs whilst GOOP blew him?

Isn't she rumored to have slept with him? Strange how she is rumored to have consensually slept with 2 sexual harassers (that Brad Pitt story is BS - did he not say anything else to Harvey or the power elite as Harvey continued to harass and prey on women?).

Is his buddy Michael Stipe next? There have been stories about him too.

Gross.

Wasn't he Oprahs private chef at some point?

Batali looks like a big Coke fiend. Wienstien looks like a big Coke fiend. Goop may be a big Coke whore.

Dat shits nasty 🤢

Mario was exposed by the press for stiffing his staff out of their tips and ABC did nothing about that. But sexual harassment gets him fired

The Chew is such a squeaky clean show for midwestern housewives. How awkward that the jolly fat guy was a secret sex pest.

I'm with everyone else on this thread. Yuck. That is all.

What in the name of fuck is "The Chew?"

People were talking about this last night at some other website, that a famous chef was going down. Majority thought it would be Bobby Flay. I'm genuinely surprised it wasn't.

Would you hit it, bitches?

Remember...he has money....

I knew this gross troll was a pervert!

He might not be Jewish, but "chew" does rhyme with "Jew."

I’d hit it with a frying pan if it laid a finger on me

That photo is triggering my trypophobia.

He is the original Puttanesca !

His cookware is crap.

Dear God in Heaven!

he's so fat! how many decades ago when he last saw his cock?

Bourdain (and other famous chefs) were NOT surprised. Check twitter.

He's the tip of the iceberg. A lot of chefs will be going down (gulp) now. And Flay will be one of them.

I heard he slept with Giada. Real shocker there...

Never trust a man in crocs

R27 which other chefs commented?

R27 What? Bourdain is only talking about the guy from 'Queens of the Stone Age' kicking a reporter in the head.

no, R32

He was only on The Chew a few days a week anyway, so it won't be a big loss for the show.

I'm guessing that Bobby Flay and Wolfgag Puck are next. Both have a bad reputation.

So he is straight.

Why, R35. Did you want to claim him as gay?

I don't remember anyone thinking he was gay, not even on this site. Didn't someone here claim he had sex with GOOP?

r16 It's daily show on ABC. They started out with five co-hosts (like "The View," with food), but recently lost one of them (Dr. Oz's daughter, Daphne) and now they've lost another. How long until Clinton Kelly gets accused of something?

Will Michael Symon and the other Chew show hosts do a weepy explanation of why “Uncle Mario” has to go away forever? Or will they all pretend as if he never existed?

bump for original thread

I hate the word "chew". I hope it gets cancelled.

I 💟 YOU R23 !

😁 LOL ...........

So Chef Mario was flashing the " Big Italian Sausage? "

Unconscious coupling, to be clear.

I thought Gwynnie was a vegan ?

Pig.

Another HOTTIE down!

He looks straight but is awfully flamboyant.

What happened to the blonde idiot daughter of Dr. Oz? Soon it will just be "The Carla Show", which is fine with me. Can we get rid of the annoying gay guy next? Too fucking chirpy.

Shame he is a creep, he is a fantastic chef.

R8 - Michael stipe? From REM?

What stories have there been about him? Never heard a thing bad about him? Was he friends with batali? Or did you mean the Michael Symons guy on the chew others have mentioned?

[quote]Michael stipe? From REM? What stories have there been about him? Never heard a thing bad about him?

You gotta be joking r51.

when I first read the headline for some reason I was thinking Mario Cantone and I was ready to fight them tooth and nail and I'm a female & Straight

On Friday I almost bought a piece of cookware at BB&B. So glad I didn't. Slave keeper Lidia proudly calls him her other son. How proud will she be now!

r51 Yes from REM. You can google Stipe and datalounge to pull up his old threads. Pretty sure there are stories about Batali being an asshole there too.

Thanks R52 and R55 - will google!

Seriously - hadn’t heard anything about him till it as mentioned in this thread.

I guess People Magazine will have to choose another Sexiest Man Alive 2018

I have personal business experience with him and I have to say this couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy. The worst celebrity I have ever dealt with. And he thinks he’s just so delightfully adorable and eccentric with his crocs and shorts. Fuck him.

No real Italian has red hair.

I called him being one of the next to be accused in another thread.

I love watching The Chew, and the first time Blake Lively was a guest on their show, Batali set off my creep-o-meter. I enjoy the show with the three hosts, not many shows with multiple hosts could make it work, but Clinton, Carla, and Michael are great together.

I'm finding my Creep-o-Meter pretty reliable. Almost every person accused so far has not really suprised me, with the exception of Bill Cosby and Al Franken (and I still am Team Franken - he was railroaded out).

[quote]Bourdain (and other famous chefs) were NOT surprised.

So why didn't they say anything?

^exactly, R62. Especially since Bourdain is now a justice warrior along his gf Asia Argento. Talking about chefs, i hope the next is Joe Bastianich. He looks like a psychopath to me. Don't you think?

I would hate fuck the shit out of Joe Bastianich.

Michael Chiarello was whacked with a sexual harrassment lawsuit last year. I never heard how that wound up, but there may be more stories about him and his staff.

Also from Eater magazine, Batali has had his meat product lines removed from sale.

Please don’t admit to being a “chewer” (ie, regular viewer and fan of The Chew)

How about a swallower?

No one here has called themselves a "chewer", r67. Sounds like a little self-loathing on your part?

Are you a "chewer"? It's okay to come out and say it.

[quote]So why didn't they say anything?

Because the accepted narrative is that victims should be the ones to tell “their stories”. And while I understand the intention behind this stance, it removes bystanders from accountability.

See the Louis CK aftermath where everyone in the comedy community had heard the stories, but felt it wasn’t their place to out the victims. Of course this meant letting CK off the hook time after time. Convenient that.

I think none of the chefs made a stink about it because they were afraid it would get them in trouble. Once the women who are preyed upon finally come out with it, THEN they pounce.

I made up the “chewer” thing as a lil joke

Never mind.

Sexual harassment is endemic in the food industry.

Eater:

Ending Sexual Harassment in Restaurants Means Changing Service Culture

It’s not just that customers need to be more respectful: The entire mentality of the restaurant industry needs to shift. “You’re told to subject yourself to customer objectification to make more tips,” says Restaurant Opportunities Center United president Saru Jayaraman. “You’re told by management to wear more sexy clothing to make more tips. Once you’re an object, you’re an object all around.” The mentality seems to be that if servers are “letting themselves” be harassed in the name of higher check averages and better tips, that’s their choice — not a restaurant’s responsibility. So what is a restaurant to do when a customer harasses the staff? What do you do when the customer is wrong?

The toxic combination of the customer-is-always-right mentality and sexualizing employees is exacerbated by the low minimum wage for tipped workers. Per ROC’s 2014 study, the seven states that pay the full minimum wage to tipped employees have half the rate of sexual harassment as the states with lower wages for tipped workers. Because that tipped minimum wage — $2.13 an hour — barely covers taxes, servers who rely on tips to make a living are less empowered to put up with bad behavior from customers.

A majority of restaurant employees come from populations that are more vulnerable to workplace harassment. Seventy-one percent of all restaurant servers are female, and they experience almost three times the poverty rate of the American workforce, according to a 2012 ROC United study. Eleven percent of all restaurant and bar workers are undocumented immigrants.

And for generations, the general public has treated the restaurant industry like a Wild West full of temporary workers. But restaurant workers are not just college students and teens looking for summer jobs (even if they were, that wouldn’t make allowing sexual harassment any more acceptable). Even in fast food, considered the lowest barrier of entry in food service, only 30 percent of employees are teenagers.

Throughout the entire workforce, fewer than 25 percent of adults making minimum wage or lower — the majority of whom work in service industries — have never been married, suggesting they have households to maintain.

This adult workforce often has few or no benefits, no regular schedule, and no sick days. If restaurant employees are going to work while sick to make sure they can pay the bills, it’s no surprise that they’d also feel forced to put up with harassment to keep a roof over their heads.

todd english is another pig and has been sued many times already.

yes, i read about the fat pig's lawsuit where he stole the servers' tips. fucking asshole!

this fat pig can get an erection? gross, and i think he probably has heart disease, just look at him!

Remember Ann Burrell (whom I love) being sexually inappropriate and shitty to her restaurant staff? What are the actual accusations on Batali? Not that I want to defend him but I’m sort of tired of this witch hunt and am saving my outrage. It was only a matter of time before celebrity chefs were outed. There seems to be a high level of narcissistic assholes in that camp.

R77, you don't think the restaurant staff has a right to go about their jobs without being groped?

So many comments about how he's gross looking, and frankly I don't disagree.

So how would we QEFTSG him?

Is that a typo, r79?.

Queer Eye For The Straight Guy

The fat fukin slob! Of course he has to harass people. No one would fucking want him!!! Ugly son of a bitch.

They pre-tape a lot of the segments for "The Chew," so it will be interesting to see if they have to scramble to fill in a lot of gaps that would've been occupied by Mario's pieces.

I pulled my dick out his ass and it was covered with Sunday Gravy.

OMG, it was AWFUL!

His jarred pasta sauces are a huge rip-off. They're like $7 a bottle, yet I find the marinara sauce from Trader Joe's for $1.98 tastes much better.

is Eataly his as well?? that popular store in the flatiron district? i try not to eat italian food, in fact, haven't had it in years. so I've never been to any of his restos.

He’s shitting bricks today. Ha ha asshole!

R86, Yes, Eataly is co-owned by Mario and the Bastianich family.

[quote] i try not to eat italian food, in fact, haven't had it in years.

Why is this, dear? Do you realize that not all Italian food is lasange?

Are you on your liquid diet in prep for Fire Island?

Has that cunt Lidia commented yet?

[quote]is Eataly his as well?? that popular store in the flatiron district?

Eataly is a worldwide chain.

well, he must be loaded, the victims should sue! make the fat fuck pay!

If The Chew goes south, WTF am I gonna do next? This gurl has some bills to pay!

I'm curious as to what their store in Riyadh looks like -- so much of Italian food (especially salumi) is pork-based.

So he was stealing their tips AND groping them. Nice!

He must have used tongs in front of her instead of a colander.

Next Round as we sift through the politicians,the CEOs,the movie crowd of all persuasions,educators,athletes and coaches,the classical musicians ,the military and now the celebrity chefs :

The families of the accusers (especially the anonymous ones) - fathers,brothers,sons,and of course their husbands must now be subject to investigation in order to confirm the purity of the accusers' background.

Are they worthy of throwing these stones,then ducking for cover;or are there dark secrets concealed by one or more of the accusers' family male members (so to speak).

Maybe,you're next?

I'm waiting for all the groupies who followed the rock bands in the 60s and 70s to come out of the woodwork eyeing$$$$

I was at The Chew once. Mario was dirty and he smelled. He was a disgusting fat slob. Sooooooo glad that these people came forward about this gross disgusting human being. F you asshole Mario!!!!

Anthony Bourdain feels 'guilty as f--k' over Mario Batali: 'I’ve been sitting on stories that were not mine to tell'

Anthony Bourdain is publicly processing the Mario Batali allegations with empathy, grief and a self-described guilty conscience. "It's Batali. And it's bad," Bourdain tweeted on Monday morning as the news broke online. After a female chef called the news "the most wonderful day of the year for those who have been hurt by Batali," Bourdain replied, "I wish that were true but in this case, I can assure you, from women talking to me with first hand stories, it’s not wonderful at all." He continued, "I’ve been sitting on stories that were not mine to tell. And feeling sick and guilty as f--k I hadn’t heard them before."

todd english, batali, chiarello in napa, probably also joe bastianich for sure....his book alsone was so sexist it was insane.....this is just the tip of the iceberg lettuce....

i don't give a fuck how it is a given women are treated like dog shit in kitchens and have to put up with it....somethings gotta give........like a hand in a blender......

oooooh, remember that sopranos scene in artie's kitchen when whoever the fuck it was barged in and stuck his hand in a boiling pot of sauce???

hmmmmm.....

J'accuse!

Raise 🙋 your hand if you have NOT been accused !

I hope the show goes off the air. I want my "One Life to Live" back!!

"Not that I want to defend him but I’m sort of tired of this witch hunt and am saving my outrage."

It's not a witch hunt if the claims are true.

"The families of the accusers (especially the anonymous ones) - fathers,brothers,sons,and of course their husbands must now be subject to investigation in order to confirm the purity of the accusers' background."

Because only saints can be harassed or assaulted

He never harassed me!

Fuck Bourdain @ R99.

Don't forget the New Orleans chef, John Besh. The family-oriented Trump supporter was recently sacked from his restaurant group for sexual harassment.

He touched my puss.

Seriously, fuck Bourdain. Wait till his dirt starts spraying out all over everything.

And GOOP is a ho fo sho.

Anthony Bourdain is a well-past-his-prime, fame-obsessed, embarrassing bandwagon-jumper of VERY minimal talent who has carefully cultivated an image that is completely bullshit--his career is due to nepotism. He can seriously go fuck his hand. He's a hypocrite, he backpedals constantly if a situation threatens his image, and he's a phony with a trashy girlfriend. If he ever gave a shit about women being molested and harassed in the foodie workplace, he could have said something YEARS ago. He's only on board because his girlfriend is a talentless, disturbed skank who ran with this movement in order to venerate herself. Fuck them both. They found each other; they deserve each other, nights spent snorting rails and talking about how awesome and counterculture they think they are.

r110 is Harvey Weinstein

R111, you puckered asshole Bourdain, I am most certainly not.

Fat pig Mario is going down!!!!!!!!

Mario cultivated celebritie and shrewedly marketed himself as one. He's always been a pig.

Just read about Ryan Lizza from the Newyorker. I like him. I don't want to believe he's a bad guy, but I hope they get Chris Cilizza he's another asshole.

Everyone in New York has known for years that Mario is a drunken cokehead who lunges at the ladies.

It's like guys who are low self esteem insecure and usually unattractive or shy or repressed finally feel like they've arrived and they act like pigs harassing women as if they're some lothario.

When the shit hits the fan in the Times on Wednesday, lots of chefs will be running for cover. Some bigger than Mario. Not physically, but, whatever.

Let's hope Joe Bastianich is next to get burned alive. He is a fucking spoiled-rotten psychopath.

R51, Micheal Stipe has appeared on Mario's cooking show years ago.

Agree, fuck Anthony Bourdain. He's going to pretend he didn't know, after his sanctimonious drivel about Weinstein?

Belcampo pulled Batalis sausage.

Batali only owns a small minority interest in Eataly USA. The parent company is working hard to distance themselves from him because they want to go public in 2018. Ooops

And for this, they cancelled ALL MY CHILDREN.

Another plug-ugly.

Bourdain is such a sellout and a hypocrite. He visited Ted Nugent's compound...and said that he didn't agree with his political stance, but hey, the guy gave him some venison. He ha even broke bread with the ultra homophobic Rastafarians one one of his shows about Jamaica. Phony ass old man.

Geez no surprise here - heard about this coke fueled, nasty piece of work for at least 10 years. Ew think of that nasty obese sweaty body being foisted upon you.

Not yet r90- Lidia's slave will be making a statement on her behalf this afternoon.

R117: do you have more info?

I can just picture his sweaty, greedy, thieving hands in the tip jars...

Re: Cocaine. Why so fat, then? Or, is it that he would've been even more obese, sans coke?

Cowboy Josh is now claiming that Ree Drummond sexually harassed him for years. Grabbing his ass and suggesting he wear his Wranglers tighter to make his package more prominent.

Fat slob got what was coming to him for a long time now!

front page on ny post.

rape room in resto! on the 3rd floor of spotted pig! owner is a fucking pig alright!!!

While I feel for these women, there was a time back in the day when sexual harassment was fun. And the fruaen gave as good as they got.

Plus, we could smoke at our desks.

Bourdain never fails to rub the wrong way. After these stories come out, he jackals his long time friend just so he can virtue signal and also look so very in-the-know.

What an asshole. As usual.

"While I feel for these women, there was a time back in the day when sexual harassment was fun."

Yeah, maybe it was fun for straight men to be able to harass women and get away with it. Are you Donald Trump? I bet you long for the good old days when "sodomy laws" were still on the books.

[quote][bold]"Several of the women who talked to the Times said they told Bloomfield about Friedman’s unacceptable behavior.

[quote]“Her response was always the same,” Nelson said. “‘That’s who he is. Get used to it. Or go work for someone else.’”[/bold]

[quote]Friedman’s company said in a statement Tuesday that the restaurateur, who is married to a former Spotted Pig hostess, will be taking an indefinite leave of absence from the management of his businesses, according to the Times.

[quote]Friedman had earlier said in a statement, “I own my behavior, which can accurately be described at times as abrasive, rude and frankly wrong. The women who work at our restaurants are among the best in the business, and putting any of them in humiliating situations is unjustifiable. Some incidents were not as described, but context and content are not today’s discussion.

[quote]“I apologize now publicly for my actions.”

[quote]Bloomfield denied in a statement that she had ignored complaints against her business partner.

[quote]“In the two matters involving uninvited approaches that were brought to my attention over the years, I immediately referred both to our outside labor counsel, and they were addressed internally,” she said. “I have spoken to Ken about professional boundaries and relied on him to uphold our policies. Nonetheless I feel we have let down our employees and for that I sincerely apologize.”"

Is Bloomfield, the co-owner, a lesbian?

These sickos taking advantage can...

"The Red Menace". HAH!

I remember the blind but thought everyone decided it was that ridiculous looking guy always dressed Ed Hardy style. Fieri?

R135: yes, she is. Her behaviour is so disappointing: she’s complicit. She could have created a safe work environment for women: she started at a famous London restaurant run - very differently - by two women.

Someone said another chef sexual harassment expose is being run in the NYT today - Bigger than Batali...

Bourdain? Flay? Todd English? Jacques pepin(this would kill me)? Marcus Samuelsson? Paul Hollywood?

Dear god, Batali is fucking repulsive.

I hope his hideous "Eataly" or whatever it is closes down.

Some of these men should be in prison.

How The Chew has managed to stay on TV for as long as it has is beyond me. Maybe old fatass's departure will make it watchable.

No, it was Ken Friedman who owns the Spotted Pig R140. There was a “rape room” which Batali participated in.

Ewww this he grind his big, fat orange mussy onto unsuspecting staff?

[quote]Cowboy Josh is now claiming that Ree Drummond sexually harassed him for years. Grabbing his ass and suggesting he wear his Wranglers tighter to make his package more prominent.

If she gets a jury of all gay men, they'll never be able to convict her.

......

Not sure I buy this new series of accusations. The accusations sound like bullshit to me.

Accusers come forward on '60 Minutes.'

^ I hope Detective Olivia Benson gets him!!!!!

No charges will be filed: "We're told the NYPD has closed both cases against Batali after investigators couldn't find any witnesses or evidence supporting claims made by the accusers."