Production is expected to wrap around Thanksgiving.
Reality chef, real job
Siobhan Allgood, the Rockledge native who appeared under the watchful scorn of Gordon Ramsay in Season 7 of Fox's Hell's Kitchen, has found gainful employment: She started during the weekend as executive chef at West Side Gravy, a four-month-old comfort-food restaurant in Collingswood. The ahi tuna sandwich from the TV show, which she has dubbed Tuna From Hell, is on the menu. At first, "I didn't even know she was a Hell's Kitchen person," says owner Alex Capasso, who prefers to read applicants' resumés before their cover letters.
Speaking of Ramsay and reality TV: Fishtown auto dealer Lou Wolff says he's been inundated with calls inquiring about his building on Girard Avenue, which until recently housed the Hot Potato Cafe. Last year, Ramsay and the Fox show Kitchen Nightmares remade the business, but management could not make it.
Media people
Chicago to Philly to Chicago to Philly: Such is the recent career path of Lauren Cohn, who next week will start as a fill-in anchor/reporter on Fox29's 5, 6, and 10 p.m. newscasts. Cohn, a native New Yorker who worked early on in Cleveland, started at the ABC station in Chicago in 1993 before moving on to the city's Fox station. In 2004, she joined NBC10 in Philadelphia, doing weekend anchoring, fill-in at MSNBC, and the WB17 news. In 2007, it was back to the Fox station in Chicago.
Former CN8/Fox29 reporter/anchor Janet Zappala will be a featured chef at this year's Kennett Square Mushroom Festival. She will cook two mushroom recipes from her cookbook, My Italian Kitchen, from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 11 and will sign copies for an encore.
Tardiness
Full of respect for his fans, rapper Snoop Dogg showed up at 6:06 p.m. Monday for a scheduled 3 p.m. appearance at a Center City State Store, where he signed bottles of Landy cognac.
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