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Not Funny Or Distinguished

[Blind Gossip] You’ve seen this rotund celebrity on TV many times, either on his own show or as a guest on other people’s shows.

He has enjoyed a long run of accolades and awards, both inside and outside of his area of expertise.

Not so much any more. It took a while, but those assault accusations are finally catching up to him.

Not only are his former colleagues distancing themselves from him, but so are the institutions that formerly lauded him as a shining example of success.

The college he attended used to regularly cook up ways to honor him.

They made him a graduation speaker, and he used the time to boast about his drug use. Yes, in a graduation speech. They laughed it off.

They regularly featured him in their alumni magazine. So much fun to cover!

They even inducted him with great fanfare and multiple press releases into their Hall of Distinguished Alumni a couple of years ago.

That was apparently another half-baked idea.

He was just removed from the Hall. Guess they realized it’s not very funny or distinguished to celebrate alumni who drug and assault the women that work for them.

No press release for that little event.

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[Optional] Who is the most well-known alumni from your school?

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    • Ok so Batali seems to be the common theme. Enrico Colantoni went to my highschool (Veronica Mars, Flashpoint), he actually was in a play with my sister lol. I also worked with Stephen Amell before he became famous.

  9. Mario Batali
    Rutgers University has a “Hall of Distinguished Alumni” and in 2005, Batali was the university’s commencement speaker.

  10. Mario bat…..something

    The most famous person from my high school was this wannabe theater girl who wanted to be on boradway got a couple of distinguished theater awards and got married before she made it to Broadway.

  11. Batali, patron saint of frat boys and dear friend of Goop (the patron saint of shady lifestyle schemes).

    The brilliant, deeply weird director John Waters graduated from my high school, and former sportscaster Jim McKay (McManus) graduated from my university.

  14. Rutgers alum Mario Batali.
    Columbia grads like me are proud of 3 presidents, a bunch of nobel prize winners, and especially these days, massage afficianado Robert Kraft.

  16. No idea who the celebrity is but the most well-known alum from my high school is John Belushi. We had a huge mural on the wall of him and Dan Ackroyd as the Blues Brothers.

  17. Celebrity – Mario Batali.

    Most well known from High School – so many- Mike Tollin (directory/producer), Judy Toll (comedienne/actress/writer), Tom Veric a (actor/director), Michael Sembello (musician), and Randy Grossman (football player) just to name a few.

    College – I went to Temple University – it HAS to be Bill Cosby.

  19. This is Mario Batali. He was honored by Rutgers as a “Distinguished Alumni” and he was bought out of all his restaurants AND eataly. Which makes me happy cause eataly is great, but I could not go since he was profiting from it.

  30. Mario “Red menace” Batali!
    Unfortunately he is a fellow alumni from my school, but thankfully these wonders outshine his disgusting *:

    -James Gandolfini (Respect, RIP)
    -Kristen Davis
    -Elizabeth Warren
    -Jane Krakowski
    – Yours truly ❤️

  32. Mario Batali. For the life of me, I don’t understand why women put up with it unless they considered it part of the price for success. By the way, I’m a woman who wouldn’t.

  40. This is just a guess but Mario Batali and Rutgers University.
    No celebrities I know of but attended Bowling Green State University for a brief stint and James Baldwin taught writing there at the time. I was just entranced seeing him in the cafeteria.
    Jamie Farr and Danny Thomas grew up a couple of blocks from where I lived in Toledo, but not at the same time.

  41. Mario Batali, Rutgers

    Actor Dan Lauria. Also, many well-known athletes in soccer, gymnastics, and football.

  44. Mario Batali. His restaurant partner just completely bought him out so he will no longer be associated with the restaurants.

    I went to the University of Miami, so there are TONS of famous sports people. . . .

  45. Mari Batalli. He’s closing/sell his restaurants.

    I’m the most well known in my school.

  52. no idea who this is, but the most famous alumni from my undergrad school is political nutjob Michelle Bachman, and from grad school it’s noted gross old man Garrison Keillor. Ewwwwwwwwww to both!

  53. Jonah Hill??
    Optional- that I knew personally….
    Steve Levitan creator of Modern Family

  59. Guy Fieri?

    Most famous alumni from my high school are all the members of Poison, except CC Deville lol.

  67. Mario Batali. I saw that he has relinquished his ties to all of his restaurants.

  70. Mario Batalli or however his name is spelled. He just announced he’s closing his restaurants. Clues: “cooking up” and “half-baked” alluding to his profession as a chef.

  74. Only fatty I know of as that could be a ‘TV celebrity’ is James Corden. I don’t get all the hype about him. He’s not funny at all. Funny looking ? Why yes

    • Maybe his humour isn’t your cup of tea (I love him….he’s particularly hilarious with the One Direction lads, as they lived with him when they first moved to London so share a strong personal bond). BUT there’s nothing sleazy about him. He’s a genuine down-to-earth, family oriented & very (multi)talented guy.

  76. Mario Batali, Rutgers University

    clues-“cook up,” and “half-baked.”

    Most famous alumni from my college-Bear Bryant, George Wallace, Joe Namath, Harper Lee, Jeff Sessions, Joe Scarborough, Bernie Madoff, Timothy Leary, AJ McCarron, Sela Ward

  81. I can’t think of who this is because there wasn’t a fat actor in half-baked 🙂 I’m guessing it’s a celebrity chef maybe Mario batali?

    My school had a bunch of famous alumni but I think the most beloved is Jimmy Stewart. <3

  88. I’m going to guess (just a guess mind you) that this is Anthony Anderson.

    The most famous person from my undergrad school (Uni of Wyoming) has got to be DICK as in Cheney; and from my doctoral program at Uni of Aberdeen at present is Iain Glenn who plays Jorah Mormont on “Game of Thrones.”

  92. Mario Batali

    Alum from my college : President LBJ…also Powers Booth…and George Strait…pick your favorite…!

  93. Celebrity: Molto Mario Batali

    Alumni: I went to BYU so probably Steve Young, Stephenie Meyer and Mitt Romney.

    (Also Napoleon Dynamite, if anyone’s interested 🙂

  97. Mario Batali. I just read his business partners bought him out of all his restaurants and Eately is next.

  100. Mario Batali- cooking clues, picture batali is also red haired and overweight and unkempt like the picture. Swirl blind is Giada who is also on food network.

    Most famous alumni: the guy who started Bebe fashion brand. Not too famous.