Trivia: Double majored in Spanish Theater and Economics in college. In 1989, quit his job as a chef at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel's La Marina restaurant in Santa Barbara, and moved to a village in Northern Italy to study traditional Italian cooking. Opened his first restaurant, Po, in 1993 in New York City. Established the Mario Batali Foundation in 2009, which organizes fundraising to help feed and educate children. On the board of directors for The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit that provides meals to students in South Africa.

Trivia: A native of Southern California who was born and raised in San Diego, Playboy model and Hugh Hefner girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson attended Clairemont High School and then accepted a position as a dental assistant, when her photograph landed on Hefner's desk and caught his attention. A mutual acquaintance subsequently contacted Wilkinson on Hefner's behalf and invited her to attend his exclusive 78th birthday celebration as body-painted entertainment for the party. Not long after, Hefner invited her to move into the Playboy mansion as one of his girlfriends-in-residence, an invitation she promptly accepted. She then appeared as a centerfold in Playboy magazine and starred, opposite Hefner, Holly Madison, and Bridget Marquardt, in the E! network reality series The Girls Next Door. Wilkinson also appeared opposite Madison in the genre parody Scary Movie 4. She got her own reality show, Kendra, in 2009, and competed in the 12th season of Dancing With the Stars in 2011. In 2012, she left the E! network, launching a new reality show, Kendra on Top, on WEtv.

Trivia: Born December 10th, 1964, master chef Bobby Flay netted sweeping recognition for his contribution to making Southwestern American cuisine one of the mainstays of gourmet dining in the United States during the 1990s and 2000s. A New York City native, Flay took a job during adolescence at the Joe Allen Restaurant in Manhattan, where he dazzled everyone with his culinary skills. Courtesy of Allen, Flay later attended the prestigious French Culinary Institute, then accepted a position as one of the chefs at the Manhattan-based Miracle Grill, where the proprietors gave him the breadth and freedom of invention necessary to concoct a series of original dishes with a Southwestern theme that quickly caught on with the public. In 1991, Flay traveled the entrepreneurial route, opening his own Mesa Grill, an eatery that soon became the toast of the Big Apple; successive restaurants, including Bolo and the Mesa Grill Las Vegas, followed, as did numerous cookbooks. Flay is best known to many, however, for his long stint on television's Food Network, as the host of the programs Boy Meets Grill and FoodNation. He also memorably competed against Masaharu Morimoto on the original Japanese cooking competition series Iron Chef, and subsequently served as a formidable Iron Chef on Iron Chef America. In 2005, Flay participated in the television series The Next Food Network Star. Flay built up his food empire, with shows like Boy Meets Grill, Throwdown! with Bobby Flay and Brunch at Bobby's. He also released a number of cookbooks and opened several restaurants, including a chain of Bobby's Burger Palaces.

Trivia: Moved from Pennsylvania to Florida as a child. A drama teacher in high school got him interested in acting. Was a member of the International Thespian Society Troupe 850. Saw The Honeymooners when he was 12 and wanted to be like Jackie Gleason; went on to play Ralph Kramden in a Florida theater production. Began performing at comedy clubs while still a teenager. Made his feature debut in the Sylvester Stallone-starring Avenging Angelo (2002). Has been a series regular on FX's short-lived Lucky and the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly. Is a die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

Trivia: The older sister of actress and teen pop sensation Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff kicked off her career by focusing more on her skills in front of the camera than her talents behind a microphone. Though she would pen the occasional tune for her younger sibling, it was screen roles in such television hits as Chicago Hope, Boston Public, and, alongside her sister in Lizzie McGuire, that first opened the eyes of the public to the talents of the ambitious rising starlet.Born just two years prior to her sister, Haylie made her screen debut alongside Hilary in the female Western True Women before branching out into features with supporting performances in Dreams in the Attic and I Love Your Work. It was during this period of her career that Haylie would contribute to the soundtracks of such films as A Cinderella Story, Stuck in the Suburbs, and Raising Helen, with a memorable performance in the cult hit Napoleon Dynamite serving well to offer her some indie exposure in addition to her mainstream success. A subsequent return to the small screen found Haylie making a notable impression in That's So Raven, Joan of Arcadia, and 7th Heaven, and in 2006 the it was finally time to join Hilary in the big screen (as sisters no less) for the riches to rags comedy Material Girls. Duff appeared in films such as Love Finds a Home (2009), Love Takes Wing (2009), and A Holiday Engagement (2011). She reprised her role from Napoleon Dynamite in the short-lived cartoon series, and continued to appear in made-for-TV movies like All About Christmas Eve and Christmas Belle.

Trivia: Endowed with the kind of dark, puppy-eyed, lanky looks that have often gotten him cast as sensitive, shy young men, actor Josh Charles first became known to audiences as sensitive, shy prep school boy Knox Overstreet in Dead Poets Society (1989). A native of Baltimore, where he was born September 15, 1971, Charles made his entrance into acting through stand-up comedy, which he began performing at the age of eight. He made his film debut in fellow-native son John Waters' Hairspray (1988), and following the success of Dead Poets Society the next year, earned a reputation as a member of the '90s version of the Brat Pack.Charles' subsequent film appearances were sporadic and in projects of wildly varying quality; ranking among his better-known work are Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), Threesome (1994), and the made-for-television Norma Jean and Marilyn (1996). In 1998, Charles was cast as one of the leads in the highly acclaimed TV show Sports Night, a sitcom revolving around the goings-on of a late night cable sports news program. Though Sports Night did indeed gain positive critical notice and a loyal fanbase for its smart writing and multi-dimensional characters, it was unfortunately cancelled before it really had a chance to fully develope. Hollywood did however take notice of Charles' talents as an actor, and the quality and substance of the roles he was being offered slowly began to rise. Following a pair of low-key roles in such indie dramas as Meeting Daddy (2000) and Our America (2002), Charles was cast in the high-profile action thriller S.W.A.T. Over the next several years, Charles would remain active on screen, appearing on TV series like In Treatment and The Good Wife and films like The Ex and Weakness.

Trivia: While Anthony Anderson got his start in stand-up, his wide range of genre-spanning credits as a producer and actor in light comedy, pointed satires, food-based reality shows and gritty episodic dramas display his versatility and cross-audience appeal. But even though it's not immediately apparent how the points on his resume connect in one straight line, all of his work harkens back to core values of family, togetherness, responsibility, fairness, justice, and doing right in a sometimes complicated world.Born August 15, 1970, Anderson was one of four kids raised by his mother and stepfather (the man he considered his "only father I knew or cared about") in Compton, Los Angeles, California. While their neighborhood could be rough, his no-nonsense stepfather, who owned three clothing stores, instilled a respect for paternal responsibility and entrepreneurship in Anderson. While Anderson remembers seeing a teenage Dr. Dre perform at Compton's most important hip-hop venue Skateland, U.S.A., his most formative memory of a performer was watching his mother rehearse for an amateur production of A Raisin in the Sun at Compton Community College. Even though both he and his mother agree that she was a terrible actress, the impression of her becoming someone else on stage solidified his ambitions.His ambitions stoked, young Anderson seized every opportunity to perform, whether it was singing at church, competing in spelling bees, or appearing in a commercial at the age of five. After successfully auditioning for Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, he won the top prize in the NAACP's Act-So awards and gained entrance to Howard University's drama program with an audition tape that included monologues from Shakespeare and "The Great White Hope". (Anderson's stepfather, always the pragmatist, took extraordinary measures to push Anderson out of the nest after college by not only insisting he pay rent if he wanted to live at home, but also by padlocking the TV cabinet and freezer, installing a pay phone in the house, and razzing Anderson with Lassie reruns: "That dog's an actor. Where are you acting?")Too-strange-to-be-fiction family lore like that formed the basis of Anderson's stand-up comedy routines that he performed briefly under the name "Tasty Tony" while picking up small roles in TV and movies until 1999, when he landed roles both in the Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy comedy Life, and Barry Levinson's cinematic memoir Liberty Heights. A slew of roles in a wide range of genres followed for the next few years, culminating in recurring roles on Treme as actor-waiter Derek Watson, on The Shield as Antwon Mitchell, the drug boss turned community leader who still keeps one foot in the thug life, and on Law & Order as conservative lawman Detective Kevin Bernard, a role for which he earned four consecutive NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series. Anderson's other great passion, for food and cooking, has led to many hosting gigs on shows like Carnival Cravings with Anthony Anderson, Eating America with Anthony Anderson, the web series Anthony Eats America, and his recurring seat at the judge's table on Iron Chef America. While his everyday diet is "vegan-ish" as a way of regulating his type 2 diabetes, he's so devoted to the kitchen arts that he takes weekend classes at famed culinary academy Le Cordon Bleu's Los Angeles outpost. While his first forays into producing the sitcoms All About the Andersons and Matumbo Goldberg (both about domestic life from an African-American perspective) ended after one season, conversations with his screenwriter friend Kenya Barris about their experiences raising their children in affluent, majority-white communities that are so unlike the neighborhoods they grew up in inspired the duo to create and produce black-ish. Taking a page from unflinching sitcoms of the '70s like All In The Family and Good Times that mixed light humor with frank confrontation of social ills, Barris and Anderson folded incidents from their own lives into the show's scripts - such as the time Anderson's teenage son wanted a bar mitzvah party like all his Jewish friends, prompting Anderson to instead offer his son a hip-hop themed "bro mitzvah." Anderson received an Emmy nomination for his role as beleaguered patriarch Andre Johnson in 2015.