… that her publicist would like to take the time out to remind you how generous she is.

Perky little Rachel felt so strongly about the students in an Alabama high school who lost 8 of their classmates that she took time out of her busy schedule of appearing on my television 85 times a day just to annoy me and stiffing hard-working wait staff on their tips to ensure that the seniors at Enterprise High School got a prom. She even planned the menu (with lots of EVOO) and helped to cook the dinner herself, making one run from the fridge to the stove carrying 45 metric tons of food along with her.

Is there some reason why these celebs can’t just do something good without notifying every freaking press outlet within a 3000-light-year radius? I’m sure that the local press would have picked up the story, and sent it to the AP. I mean, we get how the wire service works pretty much. That’s how we know how to Digg stories and all. But to have not one, but TWO publicists make SURE that everyone knows that she helped out and Mandy Moore performed THREE WHOLE SONGS is a bit ridiculous. Did you really want to help those kids or get some good press for your talk show? And please god, tell me you tipped the fracking wait staff while you were down there, Ra-Ray.

TMZ reported that Rachel Ray was out with some friends, had a few too many, and insulted her benefactor Oprah as well as Angelina Jolie.

The buzz around blogland has Ray getting too big for her britches, because it seems to be such a SHOCK to have the perky little sprite being nasty. But let’s face it; this is the woman who’s travelled around the world on Food Network’s dime on the premise that you can afford it too if you are as shitty a tipper as she is.

If I were her, I’d pay less attention to where the next glass of wine is coming from and be a little more concerned with whether or not the wait staff spit in her food. I’m betting they did.