“The first time I saw my husband, I thought he was gay and I tried to set him up on a date with a male friend of mine,” Ray said in Tuesday’s episode of Tommy DiDario’s “I’ve Never Said This Before” podcast. “And he said, ‘But I am not gay.'” That led the “Rachael Ray Show” host to cook up a different plan in her head.

When Rachael Ray first met her now-husband, John Cusimano, sparks didn’t exactly fly — at least not in the way one might expect.

Jim Spellman/WireImage Even celebrity chefs like Rachael Ray can experience all-too-relatable mishaps in the kitchen. Ray, 56, uploaded a cooking video for her TikTok followers on Thursday, January 2,