Celeb chefs heat up HSN marathon of cooking, selling their wares Tampabay.comCelebrity chef Tyler Florence stops abruptly and backtracks down the hall to where
Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi sits in a director's chair, resting her feet. Radiantly pregnant, she wears a knit dress by her London designer chum, Alice Temperley. "You did great today. You're a natural," he says before heading down to Studio D to prep for his own show at noon. On Friday, HSN threw its second 24-hour "HSN Cooks" holiday celebration, drawing celebrity chefs with their product lines from all over the country.
"My first question was, 'Who's going to be there?' " says Food Network's Duff Goldman, star of
Ace of Cakes, back at HSN for the second time to promote a line of Fat Daddio's professional-grade cake and baking pans. Television's crowd of celebrity chefs doesn't get to hang out as much as he'd like, and a visit to HSN is a reunion of sorts, as Goldman says, "like a special secret Food Network club."
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