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Apparently the host of Dinner : Impossible is a phony. (http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Chef_Faked_Resume_To_Be_On_TV_14758.html)

I always knew there was something wrong with this Robert Irvine guy.  His resume is absolutely ridiculous, and apparently someone started looking into it.  Your boy claims to have cooked for presidents and the Royals, not to mention having personally handcrafted Charles and Diana's wedding cake.  He practically stopped short of claiming to have invented gas cooking.

Ramsey vs. Irvine death match.  NOW.

Ramsey not only cooks better food, but head-butts him into unconsciousness.  I love Kitchen Nightmares. 

Hold up, its not clear to me if this stuff was on his resume, or if it was just him talking out his ass.

I haven't watched the show in a while since it didn't appeal to me, but I'm pretty sure at the beginning they say stuff like, "He's cooked for kings and queens, presidents and God almighty.  He invented the corkscrew and can channel Leonardo Da Vinci.  He murdered Rasputin and was on the grassy knoll in '63."

So? The show was amusing and he pulled off big dinners with a nice flare.

Bah, oh well just toss him in there with George O'Leary as monumentally stupid.

Yeah, but if I lied and said that I had programmed for Microsoft and IBM, I'd be sure to get fired when the boss found out otherwise.  I might be able to pull it off for a while, but eventually people would wonder where the 'experience' was.

I just thought it was amusing that I never felt right about this clown and it turns out it was for good reason.

Intuition.

How in the world does a 42 year old manage to handcraft a royal wedding cake that occurred 27 years ago?  That would make him 15 at the time and something tells me that he isn't *that* much of a chef prodigy.

If we're going to be lying and padding our resume, let's at least make it believable.

To me this sounds like a drunken bar boast that got way out of hand.

Aww, thats sad to hear. I'm truly impressed at the meals he is able to put together under some ridiculous pressure in that show.

The entire show, intro to the show, even commercials for the show always pissed me off. Everything about him and his show seemed like a big, fake assed stroking of a tiny, tiny ego.

Guys that take steroids usually have an ego problem, though. Unless they play professional sports, maybe.

I wonder if he played for the Dodgers. Someone should ask him.

*snort*. It wasn't that bad -- not once you adjusted for the usual reality-show fake pressure and the like. My brother liked to call it "Dinner Slightly Inconvienent".

Not only did he play for the Dodgers, he took them to twelve consecutive World Series victories in five years by altering the space time continuum.

At age 15?