Back when Rachael Ray was getting ready to launch her own series, she right away knew who she wanted to have appear on the show: One of her favorite actors of all time, Jake Gyllenhaal. “I wanted him to be my very first guest,” she told The List, but she admitted, “He couldn’t come last minute.”
It wasn’t until a few seasons later that Ray was able to make the wish come true. “About 12 or 13 years later, he actually came on,” she said. Ray knew she needed to make his visit special, too, so instead of having her staff prepare his food in the green room, “I went to work at 4:00 a.m. to cook for him, like personally,” Ray revealed.
When Gyllenhaal took to the studio stage, he couldn’t stop gushing about all the delicious food prepared for him just backstage. His favorite? Ray’s Caesar deviled eggs.
New episodes of the star’s renovation series, “Rachael Ray’s Italian Dream Home” air Monday nights at 9 p.m. on FYI.
