Mel has been a fan of Carla Hall since Carla's days as a contestant on Top Chef. Now Carla is adding her fun personality and vivacious way of cooking to the table at The Chew - a daytime talk show filmed here in NYC. Tickets to tapings are free, so Mel requested some on the website and was able to score two seats to a taping during her spring break!
Both DJ and Mel have been to tapings of shows here in NYC before, but it's always cool to enter a studio and see just how compact everything is on set. Goes to show how the right lighting and camera angles can make anything seem larger than life.
The theme of the episode was Meatball Mania (very fitting for Meat Man DJ), and one of the guest stars was the Swedish Chef (very fitting for Eternal Muppet Fan Mel)!
We weren't allowed to take photos or video during the taping (for obvious reasons), but these were the recipes they shared:
And at the end, all the hosts came to the audience bleachers and slowly made their way around allowing everyone to take pictures.
(from left: Clinton Kelly, Carla Hall, guest host Yvette Nicole Brown, guest host Curtis Stone, and Michael Symon)
During the taping, we were really impressed with how friendly Carla and Michael were with all the audience members. You can tell that they are very humble and understand the importance of relating to fans. Michael came out with his coffee before taping began, and a woman in the audience screamed in excitement. Realizing what a huge fan she was, he actually went up to her seat and chatted with her for 5 minutes! And Carla came out during show breaks to dance with the crowd and keep us all hyped up. It's hard to tell if this is something that is expected of them, or if they just choose to do it because they are genuinely nice people. But their enthusiasm seemed sincere, and they certainly made everyone in the crowd feel welcome.
Turns out our show aired the same day, so Mel was able to rush home to watch it! We don't have DVR, but a friend was able to capture this moment of us on screen.
We also wound up popping on screen when they announced that everyone in the audience was going home with a Swedish Chef doll and Mel quite literally jumped out of her seat with excitement. This little guy will definitely be the mascot of our kitchen forever. Especially because very recently we both took an online quiz of "Which Muppet Are You?" and we BOTH got - you guessed it - the Swedish Chef! It was meant to be. :)
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