Rachael Ray Top Earning Celebrity Chef

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There’s money in food and Rachael Ray is the top earning celebrity chef according to Forbes which just came out with a list of the ten top-earning celebrity chefs.

In the #1 spot is Oprah fave Rachael Ray, who pulls in about $18 million a year. Rachael Ray started on the Food Network show, 30 Minute Meals, in 2001.

Today, she has four Food Network programs, including Tasty Travels and $40 a Day.

Her nationally syndicated, Oprah-backed talk show, Rachael Ray, is averaging 2.6 million viewers this season, and her Every Day With Rachael Ray magazine has 1.5 million readers. She endorses Dunkin’ Donuts too – all to the tune of $18 million a year.

Here’s the rest of the list.

2. Wolfgang Puck – $16 million
3. Gordon Ramsay- $7.5 million
4. Nobuyuki Matsuhisa – $5 million
5. Alain Ducasse – $5 million
6. Paula Deen – $4.5 million
7. Mario Batali – $3 million
8. Tom Colicchio – $2 million
9. Bobby Flay – $1.5 million
10. Anthony Bourdain – $1.5 million

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