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Rachael Ray Ad Yanked

May 29th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Dunkin’ Donuts do coffee and baked goods, but aren’t so big on militant political activism.

 

So when one of their ads got them branded "terrorist sympathizers", they yanked it pretty quick.

Web spots featuring TV chef Rachael Ray have stirred up controversy because critics said her shawl looked like the scarves warn by some Islamic militants.

So yesterday the Massachusetts-based company announced they are taking ads out of circulation.

The promos, which first appeared on 7 May showed the 30 Minute Meals star standing with an iced coffee in a city park, wearing the offending item around her neck.

Commentators complained her tasseled shawl looked like the kaffiyeh, a traditional Middle Eastern head scarf, that, they claimed, has come to "symbolize Muslim extremism and terrorism".

Therefore they said that Ray and the Dunkin’ Donuts were offering "symbolic support to terrorists."

Even though Dunkin’ Donuts said that the shawl had a black and white paisley design and had been chosen by a stylist for the shoot, they have now pulled the ad because ”the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee.”

”Absolutely no symbolism was intended,” the company insisted.

 

Ray, 39, has endorsed Dunkin’ Donuts since March 2007.

OK! Exclusive: Rachael Ray Denies Starbucks Rumor

January 18th, 2008 / Author: cwillett

Yesterday the Internet was abuzz with a rumor that TV maven Rachael Ray prefers Starbucks to Dunkin’ Donuts. So what’s the big deal? Well, perhaps it has something to do with Rachael being the spokesperson for the donut giants?

 

OK! caught up with the multimedia mogul at Friday’s taping of The Rachael Ray Show at Bryant Park’s Skating Rink in NYC and gave her a chance to clear the air. And Rachael told OK! exclusively that the rumor is nothing more than hogwash.

 

"Ridiculous," she said when asked about the scurrilous rumor. "It’s ridiculous. It’s absolutely ridiculous."

Sounds delish, Rachael!

 

By Jocelyn Vena

Rachael Ray’s Angelic Holiday

December 3rd, 2007 / Author: cwillett

Host of the Rachael Ray Show and author of countless cookbooks and entertaining guides, Rachael Ray’s most recent project was teaming up with Dunkin’ Donuts and the Soldier’s Angels program, which sends letters and care packages to soldiers stationed overseas.

How did you become involved with Soldier’s Angels?

Rachael: Dunkin’ Donuts, said, “Hey listen we want to do something for the holidays. What about Soldier’s Angels?” And I said, “That’s so great.” For those people, they are so far from home, it’s the holidays. To see that America hasn’t forgotten about them and cares. All the little cards that people are going to fill out and put into those care packages — I mean imagine that!

When you are filling out the cards, you just feel good.

R: Yeah! You just feel good. You are sending a hug to people who really need one in a really horrible awful time.

Do you have any Christmas shopping or cooking tips?

R: I think the best gifts that you can give anyone are gifts that give back. [Soldier’s Angels] is a great example. I’m also really into pit-bull rescue because I have one. I am really into what the ASPCA does and North Shore Animal League. I really like Heifer International, which is an organization that donates animals to communities in need. You can literally give a heifer, a water buffalo, or a gaggle of geese to struggling communities around the world so that they can prosper and farm, feed and fund themselves. It’s like the old adage “You give somebody a fish you feed them for a day, you teach them to fish you feed them for life.”

Then there’s our Yum-o organization, if you are really into cooking and you want to support kids. We feed hungry children and fund cooking education and scholarships.

I also like to give things in the names of my friends. Then they get a little card in the mail that says, “Rachael Ray made a donation in your name to XYZ.” I think that’s a neat way to give back.

Food is a great gift to give too! Make whatever your specialty is and give it to a neighbor or somebody who waters your plants or watched your kids or your dog for ya! Make them a lasagna. It is as easy as that!

Interview by Derek Ivie

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