“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 a preview clip from the Tuesday episode of Tommy DiDario’s “I’ve Never Said This Before” podcast, per Us Weekly. “And he said, ‘But I am not gay.'”

Cooking show host Rachael Ray recently spoke on a podcast about trying to set up her now husband – lawyer and musician John Cusimano – with another man before the couple started dating.

Rachael Ray has revealed that she initially thought her now-husband, John Cusimano, was gay when they first met in 2001. Indeed, in a sneak peek at Tuesday's episode of host Tommy DiDario's I've Never Said This Before podcast,

Rachael Ray has been making headlines by revealing all the juicy details about her marriage to John Cusimano. Now, she is opening up about her shocking first impression.

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,