Monday, October 19, 2009

Amy Cooks with Rachael; Matt Waits Backstage

Amy and Matt Roloff appeared in a taped segment on the Rachael Ray Show today. Amy and Rachael prepared a casserole recipe of Amy's containing leftover chicken soup, pasta, and cheddar cheese. Rachael shared a recipe of hers with Amy that used eggplant as a rollup.

The segment was taped in Rachael's prep kitchen, not as part of the regular show in front of the live audience, and squeezed into a spot directly after a commercial. It wasn't even announced at the top of the show.

Here is the write-up from the Rachael Ray Show Web site:
"As the hit TLC show Little People, Big World enters its fifth season, Rachael asks Amy Roloff how she and Matt have handled exposing their lives while avoiding the tabloid nightmare that has surrounded fellow reality stars Jon & Kate Gosselin.
"We went into doing a reality show with a purpose and that was to get the message out about little people," Amy says. "But along with reality, your whole life is exposed - with Matt and I fighting or people seeing our messy house or all the comments on the blogs. So there is negativity that comes with it. You can take that with a grain of salt, or you keep going back and say, why are we doing this? ... [Ultimately] I think the message about little people is powerful."

A clip was shown from an upcoming episode, in which Amy walks into the twins' room while ringing a cowbell to wake the boys up. It's 11 a.m. and at least one friend (Bryan) had spent the night on the sofa in the boys' room. They were all resistant to getting up, despite Amy's telling them that she had prepared french toast. After Amy leaves the room, Zach is interviewed while playing Xbox. He expresses his displeasure with Amy's method of waking them up.

On the Web site also is a short segment filmed backstage, called "backstage pass," in which the couple is asked to name three things people might not know about them. A couple things Matt mentions is that he hates mushrooms, but he loves sappy love songs from the '80s. He joked that he's really a tall person dressed in a little person's suit. Amy made a joke that their lives are so exposed there probably isn't anything that people don't know about her. She did, however, list that she loves to sing, that she also loves the 1980s love songs, and then Matt joked with her about her competitiveness. Here's the link: http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/...ont-know-about-them/

Overall, the couple seemed like themselves and in good spirits. Maybe we can lay the divorce rumors to rest for now?

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