The Chew's Mario Batali: "It’s As If I Had Chopped Off Erica Kane’s Head"
Gotta love that silver-tounged
Mario Batali
.
The Chew
co-host recently spoke with
about his new cooking show, which replaced
All My Children
on ABC, and discussed the wrath soap fans have been unleashing against him on Twitter:
Dude, they are so mad at me, says Batali. It’s as if I had chopped off Erica Kane’s head. They’re not happy, and they’re on the Twitter-sphere, and they’ve got beautiful vocabularies. They attack him in person, too, calling the show The Spew. He tries to placate them by promising to bring Susan Lucci on as a guest, and explaining that “it wasn’t a Mario Batali decision. It was an ABC-TV decision. I say, ‘I’m just a pawn in the game.’
