{"id":14666,"date":"2025-10-24T07:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14666\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:49:27","slug":"rachel-ray-got-brooklyn-beckham-to-burger-event-as-backup-plan-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14666\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Ray Got Brooklyn Beckham to Burger Event As &#8216;Backup Plan&#8217; \u2014 Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Ray was all smiles while hosting Blue Moon Burger Bash 2.0 along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2025\/10\/21\/brooklyn-beckham-family-feud-continues-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Beckham <\/a>at the New York City Wine &amp; Food Festival. However, according to sources, the chef not only got Beckham to co-host the show but also to fill in gaps if she could not cover the entire event on her own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Beckham was there to fill in gaps if Rachel Ray couldn\u2019t cover the whole event, says source<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Beckham and Rachel Ray co-hosted the Blue Moon Burger Bash 2.0 on October 17 amid fun and fair.\u00a0 While many thought Beckham was there to represent his hot sauce brand, Cloud23, a source told <a href=\"https:\/\/robshuter.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-brooklyn-beckham-hired?open=false#\u00a7exclusive-brooklyn-beckham-was-told-to-step-in-if-rachel-ray-slipped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">#ShuterScoop<\/a> that he was actually her backup plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was brought in as a safety net,\u201d an insider revealed. The tipster further said that the step was taken since \u201cFolks were worried Rachael might not make it through the full event on her own\u201d due to her alleged health issues. <\/p>\n<p>Hence, when the Emmy Award-winning TV host decided to join the show, \u201cEveryone wanted to support her comeback.\u201d However, \u201cthere was real anxiety behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, as a precautionary measure, Beckham was suggested to \u201cjump in\u201d if the chef began to struggle during the show. \u201cHe was told to smile, distract, and fill the gaps if anything went wrong,\u201d a staffer told. \u201cHe handled it like a pro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2025\/10\/17\/rachael-ray-steps-out-amid-health-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">speculations about her health<\/a> have been doing the rounds, some claimed that the 57-year-old \u201cdisappeared\u201d from the spotlight just like that. But the chef hit back at the claims, saying that she is here to stay. \u201cI don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/rachael-ray-fires-back-at-claims-shes-disappeared-talks-busy-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Us Weekly<\/a> during the interview at the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Ray claimed that she is working \u201call the time.\u201d \u201cI never left. I just switched over to A+E and new partners, that\u2019s all. But I\u2019ve been working constantly,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The icon further revealed that after leaving the \u201cdaytime show,\u201d she has \u201cstarted writing\u201d and producing \u201cshows\u201d with her \u201cfriends around the clock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Ray was all smiles while hosting Blue Moon Burger Bash 2.0 along with Brooklyn Beckham at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,3247,100,99,232,1440,9,24,63,6550],"class_list":["post-14666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-beckham","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rachel-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}