Thursday, February 4, 2010
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After Martha Stewart had fallen out of favor due to her months served in jail for lying about stock sales, people looked for a new icon to follow. Though it would be hard to find someone as all encompassing as Martha Stewart, I think people attempted to find those most similar, which was why I began to see a lot more of Rachel Ray. Though she was much more hyper and out there than Martha Stewart she still brought about the same kind of desire to create great things for the home. However, she went about this in a much different matter, whereas Stewart would stress how the absolute best would take a long time, Ray would give tips on how to make quick good things and didn’t seem to care as much about the amount of work that went into it. Though she was not quite as large as Stewart, Ray was able to rise to a larger status due to Stewart’s incarceration and was able to attract a large amount of followers.
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I highly doubt that Rachel Ray's rise in popularity had anything to do with Martha Stewart's incarceration; could you please explain the correlation?
I didn't mean that people were suddenly horrified by Martha Stewart, I meant that the lack of Stewart's influence left people looking for someone who was similar.
I highly doubt the veracity of your claim. Ray started rising to prominence in 2001-2002, and even though Stewart was accused of the her crime in late 2001, she was still doing shows until her conviction in 2004.
Not really, she got her big television show when she signed a contract with Oprah in early 2005, mere months after Stewart was sent away.
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