We're sorry Bengals fans but having a former boy band frontman as your team's most famous fan doesn't exactly provide you with street cred or the toughness you'd hope for. For those of you unaware of who Nick Lachey is, he is the former lead singer of the multi-platinum '90-00s boy band 98 Degrees. The collective peaked in the early 2000s before disbanding in 2002 but recently has come back together to tour for nostalgic fans.
But despite our jabs at Nick Lachey being soft for his boy band past, he's been in a few scuffles holding down his Cincinnati Bengal counterparts. Back in 2012, Nick Lachey was removed from a Chargers/Bengals game after a Chargers fan continuously stuck his finger in the pop singer's face. He took to Twitter to cheer on his Bengals brethren following the debacle and ever since then has been leading the celebrity charge for the team.
Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.
Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.
Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.